Majority & Minority Quotes (1858 Quotes)

Overall, the majority of e-mail traffic on the Internet is still spam-related content.

Some areas will have active sports fields like that, but the majority of this will be left in natural state.

It's time for this board to look hard and long at minority hiring. We don't have any minorities in technology. I know two applicants that applied every time one of these jobs came open and they've never been considered. The way I look at it, the good old boy system is coming back. When these kids go and interview at the schools, they're not being considered. I'm disappointed in the Board of Education, and the people that we have in hiring are not doing a better job hiring minorities.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

These portals were the main source of the people that signed up to these sites. That was where most of the advertising came from. So with the majority of them shut down, it will be much more difficult for anyone to set up and market one of these sites.

It's a very mixed message from the voters. The majority of the population is still not ready to go through with a harder reform course. On the other hand, they know that things can't go any further with the red-green coalition government.

Oh No It's Sunday' is a live, end-of-the-week show confirming the nuttiness of Planet Earth and the people who live in it, as the majority of us continue to scrabble around wondering what the hell it is we are doing here.

The governor is very active in his support of civic, religious, and social service organizations, but he doesn't do it for public acclaim. There are certain aspects of his charitable giving that are public, but the majority of it is conducted privately, and he prefers to keep it private.

These are generally, if not all, religious extremists and they do not form the majority of Pakistan, ... There is no destabilization within. There is no opposition, no mass opposition, to me and my government.

Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.

There is no doubting the fact that the majority of the people of Israel would like to see a peace settlement.

Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much alike. And how politically correct. Not only did you have to be young, but also too a member of some minority. Teenage angst, gay, lesbian, any film about a woman as a victim.

Among the majority of people, bush meat is recognized as a valued resource, ... In many areas, bush meat also represents the only viable source of meat protein, with domestic meat being prohibitively expensive and largely unavailable.

The Democrats are still the minority party in Florida, and their candidate is going to have a little more to climb in the fall.

The popularity of BET especially with the minority community probably had an effect on mainstream networks. Not only did you see them focus on sitcoms with black characters, but you would also see shows that had an all-black cast.

We'll see how it goes. If P.J. is effective, he'll get the majority of the snaps. If Tashard is very effective, we'll up his playing time a little bit.

I think we (will) have a big run on both sides for a long time. Considering the fact that ultimately the majority of our base should move to 3D, and we are only 10 percent there, that is a huge opportunity.

MasterCard strongly disagrees with the majority opinion issued yesterday by a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the grant of class certification in the merchant antitrust action.

It was in good fun, ... They got to gloat but we're still in the majority.

I think it's a possibility, a real possibility that this time the Conservatives will win. I really believe it. I'm certainly not going to predict a majority government, but anything can happen in an election.

Although Ball is considered a pop singer, he's not a total stranger to Gilbert and Sullivan, having played Frederick in the West End mounting of Joe Papp's memorable production of The Pirates of Penzance . But Patience is a different kind of work--much of its humor is highly topical, poking fun at the short-lived Aesthetic movement that flourished among British dilettantes 125 years ago. Will that humor translate to a New York audience in the year 2005 I think there's absolutely no difference to how we regarded things then and how we regard things now, ... There are still those performers and artists who strike on a new art form or mode that attracts their fans, while the majority of us may be saying, 'I'm sorry, but isn't that The Emperor's New Clothes' There will always be charlatans who do things just to get acclaim and adulation. So I think it'll speak to an audience as clearly today as it did then.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

We anticipate reasonable operating gains reported by the majority of operators in April. That having been said, we anticipate profit-taking by investors as valuations have reached new levels, which may cause a modest correction April.

I think it was encouraging that the application met the majority of the criteria for project approval.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

I think it's very important, just because we play the majority of the minutes at the guard position. So we had to do a lot of maturing, things like that. But after that first game, we never felt like freshmen again.

I give a voice to the voiceless, keep an eye on border injustices and watch the ever-changing cultural and racial issues in my back yard. The minority in America is constantly asking himself who he is simply because it is so difficult to know.

If you held the vote today, she would not get a majority either in the Judiciary Committee or the floor, ... there are one or two who said they'd support her as of now.

There have only been four presidents of Aerospace. The growth of the company in terms of revenue and power, and him elevating the status of minorities and women in the workplace were things he was proud of. It was always based on merit of course, but he just wanted to make sure that everybody got a fair shake.

I have concern with the number of minority contracts being awarded and the county and the city holding departments accountable for it.

A mistake by many rights activists today is that their activities do not correspond with the opinions and values of a majority of our people.

From what we have today, we would assume that within couple years we'll have the majority attacked.

While women are still the majority of shoppers, I think men hold out a hope for a better retail year.

We are the majority -- have been the majority for the last four years, thanks to my friend Newt Gingrich ... But the problem is we are losing momentum. And what we don't want to do is be a minority party in two years and my speaker's race was integral to our keeping the majority party.

As the years went by and jazz got more popular and social conditions changed, you were able to have jazz as a topic introduced into the music curriculum in universities, ... I think that one thing that hip-hop and jazz have in common is that they are both coming out of the minority subculture and we've faced some of the same problems. They are attacked in different ways . . . but they are a minority in a majority culture, so they are unfortunately discriminated against by the larger portion of the majority community.

We had a conference call (Monday) night. It was pretty clear cut that Ted had the majority of the vote, but to satisfy the minority that's a little upset with the process, we're going to do it again. Our confidence is still in Ted, and I think once this is done everybody is finally going to put this to bed.

However, the majority of our staff is full-time and worked at the Little River store.

Most of the major research collections were looted or burned or at least their status is very much in doubt. So, on one hand we have to think about what is the future of thought and culture in Iraq. And we have to remember that Iraq is a very youthful country, the majority of the population is under the age of 21. So we're very concerned about the future of this generation, what kind of materials they are going to use.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

I do think the majority of Alan Greenspan's work is done.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

There are answers that cover the short, medium and long term. Everyone needs to realise that the thing the internet is good at is copying files, especially text files, between different locations. It is not a bug that needs cured, it doesn't need fixed, it's what makes the internet work. More people are reading more words from more screens everyday. It's not going to be long before the majority of text people read is in a digital format.

The drought is making an already dire situation worse for the majority of the people in southern Somalia.

We have to admit that the majority of the public supports democracy, but democracy can't be monopolized by anybody.

The guys at the shop were here when Adam's accident happened, the majority of those guys. So it's huge for them to think, OK, five years ago for us, where we were at, and then where we are at this year at Daytona is a huge difference.

The main guy will get the majority of the playing time. Is that 60 percent Is that 70 percent Is that 51 percent I'll talk to them. Quite frankly, that's a fortunate situation to have three quality guys. It's not a problem it's a fortunate situation.

The Senate's agenda is quite light, ... There are no bills that have passed in the House of Commons. The majority of bills have already passed because we sat one month later into the summer. When you say the Senate is the Chamber of Sober Second Thought, well, you have to be thinking of something.

I thought it looked like we had a couple of weeks off for a majority of the time. It's a matter of executing from a timeout to the floor. It's a matter of paying attention to detail, and as a unit that's obviously something coaches want their team to continue to get better and better at as the year goes on, especially with the slate we have ahead of us.