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There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.

Tom Peters

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Katharine Hepburn

Some of the amphitheaters have big ticket fees and high services fees and big parking prices and high food and beverage prices, ... You can go to a minor-league ballpark where a beer is $3 or $4, or you can go to an amphitheater where a beer is $8 or $9.

Jerry Mickelson

He was very community minded. He developed special sections in the newspaper that we didn't have before. For example, we did a lot of historical special sections. He was very active in the community and had reporters attend every major and minor event.

Michael Fitzgerald

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes.

Howard Safir

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

This was part of my minor, which is religious studies.

Steve Buoni

To complete a pass was a minor miracle for us. The offense is anemic right now. That's the only way to describe it.

Gene Nudo

It's a tough and difficult situation. It affects a very minor group of employees. If we're going to do this we need to be as fair and equitable as possible.

Carlton Christensen

A minor inconvenience.

John Mara

Linux gave [these companies] a greater sense of choice. We saw some limited concern over Linux fracturing, but it was a minor issue at best.

Charles Kingsley

Last year was kind of the triple-A (minor leagues). We're ready for the big time.

Carson Daly

Only minor repairs will be needed.

Melanie Coon

Life consists of a lot of minor annoyances and a few matters of real consequence.

Harvey Penick

There has been a massive amount of students who are interested in the Spanish minor.

David Middleton

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Avril Lavigne

We believe the gold medal is already hanging around the Russian's neck. It's just the minor medals up for grabs now.

Nick Weinberg

This was a minor rain. This was about a five to 10 year average flood.

Don Heacock

We're building a log-term football culture with programs such as this. It's for coaches from minor football up to junior and college.

Rob Stevenson

There are three minor meteor showers going on, one known for slow moving but very bright fireballs.

Jack Horkheimer

This is a very minor change. The trains have been getting to the intermediate stations a little bit late.

Patrick Waldron

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries.

Willie Williams

We saw everything from minor cuts and scrapes, to severe lacerations, broken bones, and cardiac arrests. Everything you could imagine was happening in that dome.

Deanna Lassegard

Is a very minor matter, but made very important. ... It was made far bigger than its actual importance.

Caspar W. Weinberger

I had some minor symptoms, but had no idea the cancer was even there. It was discovered through a colonoscopy. I basically had it all over.

Jim Harmeyer

We have nearly 8km of exhibitions but even I can't tell you exactly how many pieces we have because even a small archway or a minor fresco is art.

Francesco Buranelli

It is contributing to the delinquency of a minor and is unlawful for anyone to provide alcohol to anyone under 21. There are no exceptions.

Amber Dillon

At this stage we're confident that it's just some minor bone bruising.

Warren Mcdonald

We have some minor leaguers who are pretty good players. I didn't really know that much about how good baseball in South Africa was before this.

Kalin Dreyer

He needs to get to Triple-A sometime this year. He's been banging around enough in the minor leagues.

Mark Riggins

Yeah, he's OK and I didn't see the whole thing. Half of the people you talk to say it was a double minor and half say it was a major.

Steve Woods

My understanding is the actions of minor children become the responsibility of parents.

Gerry Lacavera

I try to get through each day just by remembering that what we're doing is a minor sacrifice compared to what workers are going through. We're just doing a little to help them a lot.

Virginia Cutshall

I'm a big league catcher. Whether they think so or anyone else thinks so, I know that I'm a big-league catcher. I'm not a minor league guy. This is where I belong.

Jason Phillips

[For the most part, Internet TV is still] like the minor leagues, ... It's stuff that wasn't good enough to get on the air, or too short to get on the air.

Josh Bernoff

Windows XP is indeed friendly and rational, and its minor inconveniences are normal in a new product.

Francesco Cossiga

We had to run in and just steer her back out. She was trying to find her cordless phone so she could call her son. The fire was confined primarily to the bedroom area. The investigators entered to see exactly what really happened. The extension was really minor. Like I said the fire was confined really to the bedroom area.

Jeff Daly

We made some minor changes, but nothing drastic. We're good to go.

Bonni Retzkin

It lends credibility to the law. You can be pro-choice and still be pro-parental notification. It's not just about abortion. It's about the health of young females. This is a big medical decision for a minor to make.

David Reynolds

It is a lot of thinking and every game we make some minor adjustments. You go man-to-man it's a little more simplistic. I think it's been a little easier for the younger girls.

Megan Ronhovde

Any lost-time accident we take as a serious injury. I wouldn't refer to any injury as minor.

Marion Loomis

The good thing is, we go out and score on the first half of the double minor to take the lead. We had a great chance to score on the second half and we couldn't put it in.

Steve Woods

We are still gathering all the damages from this incident. We are looking at various degrees (of damage) from minor to major, but the total is substantial.

Dennis Summers

I believe what we may see is a minor pullback due to a lack of fresh catalysts now that the Fed has already said what they said.

Andre Bakhos

He tried out for a minor league team but never really made it.

Jeff Flaherty

The president was aware of the incident, but she considered it as a minor event and did not effect the lifting.

Ignacio Bunye

We have lost two single family dwellings, or two homes, one detached garage and three out buildings, and we have had six injuries to firefighters. Those range from serious to minor.

Ron Haralson

They were fairly minor issues. However, if they were not addressed so quickly, they would have been more serious issues.

Jim Newman

I learned how to start over at the bottom after getting all that ice time in minor.

Matt Davis

The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Glenn Gould

It was a major tune-up instead of what they thought was going to be a minor tune-up.

Bud Schmidt

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't take much for a minor little thing to cause a major problem with these things.

Orrin Getz

Spam filters have gotten so good, a properly managed filter can turn the sting of spam into a minor inconvenience.

Richi Jennings

That's not to say residential jobs are always minor - we did work in a 35,000-square-foot home in Iowa.

Traci Downs

The officer suffered minor scrapes and bruises in the knee.

John Long

It should be a fairly minor holding in their overall portfolio. It's a smallish market in the greater scheme of things.

Justin Modray

Basically, everything anyone needs to know about minor baseball will be there.

Dave Cassels

This was very minor, based on the report, but we look into all crashes whether there are injuries or not.

Allen Kenitzer

Turmoil in the Nasdaq has had just a minor ripple effect in the venture capital market.

Tracy Lefteroff

Once we got down (to Florida), the $5 was a minor issue compared to other things.

Doug Bradley

Other people can make certain assumptions that could change that (funding) number. A minor change to one assumption can have a change in the funding status. It doesn't mean their number is any more or less correct. We believe our number is appropriate.

Jerry Dubrowski

There will probably be a modest increase in expenditures. But relative to what Amazon will spend on marketing to attract new customers, it should be relatively minor.

Chris Vroom

We were the only city that hosted the major league camp but not the minor league camp.

Wil Gorman

We got off to a really bad start. But we made some minor adjustments and began to show more energy in the paint.

Patti Mccormack

I think it's the mentality of spring training and the mentality of the minor leagues. You know when you put that Braves jersey on, you're coming to the field to win every night.

Adam Laroche

I had given up my dream of going to be with the Dodgers ... I just wanted to be the best I could be as a minor leaguer. [Bragan] restored my drive, my passion, my dream to go to the big leagues, and I've loved him every since.

Maury Wills

Well, there are problems, but they're pretty minor. We only have one computer, so when there's a lot of people at once it gets pretty backed up.

Ralph Madara

The real rivalry is intense, but this is minor-league baseball. It's supposed to be fun.

Tim Bawmann

Our logo is located in the same place as one of our minor competitors.

David Shulman

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

There would have been minor flooding, two to three feet, in the Lower Ninth Ward. Most of the Chalmette area would have been dry.

Dr. Hassan Mashrique

I see in many minor and senior Western officials, copies of Hitler. Many of the western institutions are as if they are managed by the Gestapo and the S.S..

Hafez Barghouti

Making minor changes in your lifestyle is doable for most people.

Cindy Moore

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I heard a lot of good stories from guys who had played [in the AFL] and I considered it a pretty big honor to be invited, ... The best thing I heard about it was that it's a hitter's league and I knew I would be facing some of the best Minor League hitters in the game.

Huston Street

The type of legal support we typically have is minor that is doesn't merit a line item on its own.

Hal Morton

He's without a doubt the No. 1 male in my life, ... I was a longtime minor leaguer going nowhere. I could do a lot of things like run, throw and field, but I was afraid of the curveball. ... He made me a switch-hitter.

Maury Wills

We've been very lucky that nobody has been hurt, just minor property damage.

Linda Bowman

We heard about the church restitution issue. It is important. But it seems it is a minor issue compared to the fight against corruption.

Joost Lagendijk

Offensively, he got better as he went on through the minor leagues, but from day one he could catch it. He's the guy you wanted the ball hit to with two outs and the game on the line.

Fredi Gonzalez

MINOR, adj. Less objectionable.

Ambrose Bierce

We feel very fortunate that we made it through this storm with only very minor injuries.

Steve Parrott

Surprisingly, he had only minor injuries.

Victor Penman

As a result of the crash, we have at least 14 injuries, six of them listed as critical and eight listed as not serious or minor. We have had no reports of fatalities at this hour.

Jim Wells

We needed that break because we needed to rest the minor injuries of some of my players.

Binky Favis

Minor-league baseball will continue with replacement umpires.

George Yund

It's dramatics, just another minor thing that's turned into a big issue.

Bryan Robinson

Appropriations are around $140 million this year. There should be only minor adjustments. We hope there will be no major changes.

David Laird

The details are extremely minor in nature. We're very satisfied with the cycle and how it has gone to this point.

John Groff

It's better here than in the minor leagues. The air is better, the food tastes better, the water is better. Everything about it.

Reggie Abercrombie

It basically caused him to have a minor heart attack.

Peter Banko

They are here, but they are very minor. They aren't high priority because they aren't known to transmit any disease.

Kurt Tsue

We just need to get healthy. We have these nagging, minor injuries that we need to get past.

Sondra Vogel

We did need a minor miracle anyway. But you never want to say it was [over early]. No one here would admit to that.

Steve Montador

A minor repair for us.

Stephanie Stilson

I think it's time for me to get a major-league job. I really don't know what else I have to prove in the minor leagues. I've won at every level. I've done everything I can do.

Ian Snell

We still have too may times where we have to coach through minor issues, which by February you're not supposed to do.

Dave Leitao

CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Ambrose Bierce

This falls under the category of a minor and freak accident.

Victor Gill

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

For many people, fairly minor adjustments are all it will take.

Geordie Crossan

It had more to do with the letter of the law than anything else. It's really difficult to say much more about it. It was what we felt was a minor infraction - certainly not something that merited termination.

Tim Marchant

Just a few family and friends and some of my buddies and hockey parents from when I played minor hockey.

Paul Ranger

These guys were fearsome. They could deter anything but a minor army.

Tony Wilkinson

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Minor damage was caused to the prison compound wall and to the house in which our two soldiers were held.

John Lorimer

Our minor league hitting coordinator, Sean Berry, said he's made a good transition from high school to pro ball.

Gregg Langbehn

They don't see professional umpires being that important at the minor league level.

Chris Ward

New Smyrna Beach especially will have some minor erosion, but it just depends on how long and how strong the storm is.

Scott Petersohn

Laurie and Steve were severely injured, with Jeff (another friend) suffering minor injuries.

Russ Reineke

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

Rebecca Lobo

We talked about baseball and how it has changed in the minor leagues. Since I played, the change is just phenomenal. The growth in minor league baseball is outstanding.

Tommy John

The real sell and sizzle of minor league baseball is what happens outside the lines.

Pat O'conner

All indications are that it's a very minor infestation. We want to be careful we don't spread it around or introduce it, but it doesn't appear that that's happened. I think we caught it in time.

Keith Esplin

It's beyond its five-year contract life time. There are minor problems but there are no failure problems with it.

Pat Viets

A minor operation is one that is done on someone else.

Dr. Richard Selzer

He has a ton of talent. He has always put up numbers in the minor leagues. And he's a great cook - great Mexican food.

Chris Aguila

We've been trying to eliminate minor gaps... and to line up the resources for our biggest challenges in Akron and Cleveland.

Dan Rice

There is even a class 0, for things as minor as urinating in public.

John Vance

My heart started pounding. I thought, 'Well, is this it? Am I going [to the minor leagues]?

Matt Capps

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.

Kevin Federline

I'm surprised and I'm not surprised because the criticisms were very minor and easily correctable.

Jeff Murray

Some of the bird shot appears to have moved and lodged into part of his heart in what we would say is a minor heart attack.

Peter Banko

The area could have really been ready for a landslide because of the amount of rainfall and if there was a minor earthquake, it might have hastened it.

Rene Solidum

If any minor party is seen to be the cause of instability and precipitating an early election they will not be punished – they will be destroyed.

Finley Peter Dunne

Minor problem or not, we take every incident very seriously. We address them all with proactive steps.

Amanda Tobin

Made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Michael Morse

I'd probably like to keep going (with games), but I'm going to use the break to my advantage. A few minor injuries will have the chance to heal up, it's a chance to get refreshed and rejuvenated and to do some off-ice conditioning.

Andy Mcdonald

Some of the complaints are minor and others may be grave enough to cancel the results of a ballot box.

Safwat Rashid

We are focused on every minor thing we do having huge repercussions in our children's lives. It sucks the joy out of mothering.

Judith Stadtman Tucker

According to our doctor and her coach, it won't have an effect on her. She had minor internal bleeding and swelling and was treated with ice.

Fredrik Trahn

There are a lot of minor holes around the city, but nothing that's a major problem for people driving.

David Arnold

I told them it was minor surgery. When I was out for two weeks, they didn't know why.

Stacey Hallahan

She was treated (at the scene) for minor injuries. There were three children in the car.

Yvonne Martinez

Europe is a minor sideshow to what is really going on.

Roger Morris

He's had a heck of a year. We knew we had something special when we saw him last September and with what he did in the Minor Leagues last year. He keeps getting better and he'll keep getting better.

John Gibbons

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard

Minor-league baseball will continue with replacements. No further negotiations are scheduled or contemplated.

George Yund

I'm looking for a minor correction. It looks like we're going to have one.

John Shaughnessy

I don't expect those sorts of things. The change in the forest service policy is really a minor modification from what we already have.

Daniel Jiron

They will be able to be used for the test competitions, although some minor finishing touches may still have to be added.

Liu Jingmin

We're professional, but not big time. We're like the minor league of wrestling.

Brutal Bob Evans

It's a minor [tear], very minor. He will aim for the week after [this weekend] or the week after that.

Nathan Gibbs

The fact that you have only these minor criticisms is quite an achievement.

Allan H. Meltzer

They need to know it's OK to have shots when children have minor respiratory illnesses that they get all the time.

Dr. Rajiv Kaddu

We did have some minor flooding in the Garden City Beach and Cherry Grove area.

Lisa Bourcier

My game tickets will be awarded to any person that comes up to me before or after a game (not on the field) and gives me two (or more!!!) signed cards of any current or former minor leaguers (or NHL players) . . . anyone.

Pat Neshek

We don't get bogged down in minor things. There's too many positive things to pay attention to. It makes my job a ton easier.

Bret Robbe

We've had minor slides in that area but nothing of this magnitude.

Mark Dinger

All this does is allow for circumstances where a minor could be in a situation where she could face some sort of abuse or some kind of treatment in the home.

Sen. Scott Mccoy

But that was just a minor correction on the heels of a huge bull market. The market's former success seemed to be more of an indicator that year.

Jeffrey Hirsch

As with any new car, there were some minor issues to resolve, but we did not encounter any major problems and gradually began completing some longer runs.

Bob Bell

I've got a Minor League game on Friday. I just need to keep the intensity and stay focused and get out there and get my work in.

Josh Beckett

We do believe the issues cited were very minor, and I think the fine is probably an indication of the view of severity.

Wendel Barr

A lot of counties are poor enough that they haven't gotten around to do anything on major collectors anyway. A lot of them didn't use them on minor collectors.

Frank Courson

It is only a minor procedure and will not cause too much of an interruption to Mark's pre-season schedule.

Trevor Jaques

After all the stuff he's been through this is really minor.

Mike Hoover

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

Morton Feldman

Obesity is not a minor problem. It actually reduces life expectancy by a quarter.

Dr. Nicola Basso

The economic data were mixed, but then we got some pre-weekend short-covering and maybe some minor month-end buying.

John Canavan

A teenager's early experimentation might be minor, but it can still have a damaging effect on their developing brain.

Andrew Lawrence

I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.

Bobby Brown

I look at it as a minor inconvenience.

Steve Rothlisberger

The health and environmental effects ... have been relatively and surprisingly minor.

Kalman Mizsei

It must be that for them, the payment of the tax is minor compared with the potential profits to be made.

Jose Gregorio Tineo

Brock sat out with a minor injury. Having him in the lineup would have given us at least 20 more team points.

Vince Testa

Right now, minor mistakes are costing us games. We have to learn how to win, and know that every battle on the ice is critical.

Mike Williamson

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Margot Fonteyn

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See LOGIC.)

Ambrose Bierce

He's a pilot with 20 years of experience. He felt that he just came in a little hot, a little fast and tried to put the brakes on and the plane flipped. Luckily the damage was to the plane and not to him. He just had minor injuries, was very, very lucky.

Tom Stephenson

We have a minor stabilization of the market after a couple of slightly softer days. No big surprise.

Stuart Schweitzer

In Steve's former position, he was involved more in the business aspect of our Minor Leagues. Now, he will assume the day-to-day duties.

Mike Arbuckle

When we look at behavior patterns of most Americans, we're really doing minor things to make a difference. There's not a lot of difference, in many ways, from evangelicals and the public at large.

Ron Sellers

At this point and time, the deals are relatively minor. If they were big enough, we would make a big announcement.

Bob Bishop

The damage to the house is to the linoleum floor and minor smoke damage.

Terry Taylor

We're not introducing a lot of new classes or faculty for the minor. Instead, we're going to reinforce what we already have and focus on getting the lab up and running.

Dr. Wendy Oliver

It seems to me that if they still have to notify the parent, we haven't protected that minor at all.

Rep. Susan Lawrence

I know the plate is 17 inches wide and it doesn't expand. But with these guys it does. It really makes you miss the minor league umpires.

Joe Rowe

He doesn't understand why he is paying the price for something his grandfather did. When he was just a minor, he couldn't have done anything to help him.

Ashley Painter

The goal was for my dad. He had a minor heart attack a couple of days ago. He is feeling fine and was watching the game from hospital and he will be well pleased.

Joe Cole

Everyone has arrived healthy and unharmed. There were some minor inconveniences, but everyone for the most part is happy.

Wayne King

It starts as a minor inconvenience, but can determine the quality of life. It's a huge quality-of-life issue.

Aniela Orr

The child had a minor burn. We're taking both mother and baby to the hospital.

Orlando Dominguez

They did not turn over. This was a minor derailment.

Susan Terpay

They had a case they wanted to make; this was a minor participant, ... This seems like a pretty reasonable, not extraordinary action.

William Lawler

They had minor injuries and were taken to Onslow Memorial Hospital as a precaution.

Todd Williams

It was a very minor surgery. It was more a cleanup than anything else. It wasn't like a labrum or rotator cuff tear. I bounced back quickly and I'm ready to go.

Jon Rauch

I knew that some of the major league teams that owned their minor league affiliates were doing quite well.

Jason Freier

I'm a minor, so I can get away with a lot without too many ramifications.

Natalie Smith

I don't think anyone would really want to play in a minor league.

Spencer Hawes

It's like a rookie that's playing in the minor leagues that gets into the big league ? the big show is very overwhelming.

James Rhodes

Apparently when she got back to the house and found the house on fire, she tried to break a window to get in to the kids and had suffered some minor cuts to one of her arms.

Mike Tellef

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Elizabeth Bowen

There was some agreement on some very minor issues, but there's still a long way to go.

David Beigie

This one has a minor injury on her back foot.

Gray Harrison

My mind frame is that I'm going to break (camp) with the team and contribute to the team like I know I can. Any thought of the minor leagues hasn't crossed my mind. I'm going in focused on one goal, one mission.

Edwin Jackson

I learned a lot being in the big leagues last season. For one thing, I learned I was tipping pitches with my glove. They don't see those things in the minor leagues, but they see them up here. I'm working on that.

Edison Volquez