Quotation Explorer - 'Few'

We all have the power within us, to make something of ourselves, the thing is very few believe it. - Nikki Rowe
Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it takes years to heal - Rei Anthony Albon
It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear. - Gitty Daneshvari
I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off! - Kensington Gore
Many people in life will catch your eye, but few will catch your heart. Make sure you notice the difference. - Lorri Faye
Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings? - Nicolas Barreau
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies
Today I was overwhelmed, Yesterday I was too. There’s a high probability that tomorrow will bring a few moments of the same. I know my state is because of my nature. Embrace your inner overachiever. - Colleen Ferrary Bader
Everybody Communicate, but few Connect.Why? because finding a common ground to build a connection is a matter of knowledge and perception! - Lydor Brunice
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few. - Niccolò Machiavelli
Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to leap forward. Listen to the wrong myths, and we might even go back a few steps. - N.K. Jemisin
A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries. - Richard Preston
It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones. - Auliq Ice
It takes many years to build good reputations, but it takes a few minutes for their destruction. - Debasish Mridha
Rune never said anything about it. But to anyone who had known him a long time, it was as if he grew a few centimetres shorter in the years that followed. As if he sort of crumpled with a deep sigh and never really breathed properly again. - Fredrik Backman
History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them - Faisal Khosa
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts
Few things come to shake us up and few things pass to teach us how to let go then many things come and remind us what it's all about. It's life and the only person who will control how you feel about all the guts and glory in its path is you. - Nikki Rowe
If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too late for example it's nigh or you are outside with friends spend few minutes and write this down you could make something incrediable. - Deyth Banger
May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true. - Abraham Cowley
Ugh. You’re being . . . you.Was that in English?This is all your fault.Nope. Definitely not English.You’re being all hot and sexy, dammit, she said. She banged her head on his chest a few times. And I can’t seem to . . . not notice said hotness and sexiness. - Jill Shalvis
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - Ronald Reagan
So, we eat again. Well, perhaps the relationship wouldn’t go anywhere, but I would certainly put on a few pounds. - Max Gordon
Some people find life boring, there’s too much time. Few find Life so exciting that there’s no time at all and Life just zooms by - RVM
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few. - Moralia
She turned around to look at me with her enchanting gaze that further pierced my heart; a look I would never forget and I would retain till perpetuity and think of it always whenever she came to my mind. And that is not going to be a few times, if my heart is to have its way. - Faraaz Kazi
We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind. - M.F. Moonzajer
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen. - Samuel Paterson
Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field. - Vinnie Tortorich
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency. - Steven Galloway
The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble? - Tami Hoag
There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake. - Richelle E. Goodrich
even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like. - N'Zuri Za Austin
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. - Anthony Bourdain
There shall always be a day and a night until the world meets its ebb and we shall always hope to sleep and wake up to see another day! Such is called life! So many people have life, but, few people are living. We shall continue to exist from dawn to dusk having life and living or just having life! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. - Diogenes of Sinope
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. - Dan McKinnon
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease. -, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) - John Muir
Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible. - Raheel Farooq
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. - François de La Rochefoucauld
Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. - Blaise Pascal
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. - Henry Ford
Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires. - Lao-tzu
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other. - George Bird Grinnell
All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one. - Donna Lynn Hope
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do. - Kenneth Koch
Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few. - A.E. Samaan
Let's make just a few more steps and secure success forever. - Stephen Richards
...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... - William Morris
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. - Woody Allen
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. - W. Somerset Maugham
If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today. - Vironika Tugaleva
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison
Leadership is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One. - Harrison Owen
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words. - Ann Patchett
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
A fortunate few may find...their work to be a source of love, but it is also everyone’s right to find love elsewhere. - Miya Tokumitsu
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. - Leo Durocher
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. - Bertrand Russell
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. - Warren Buffett
A few thoughts on crime and punishment:Punishment—either don’t merit it, or learn to embrace it.It is easy to endure punishment, much harder to accept it.Committing a crime is like incurring a debt: you can either pay it off now, or pay it off later—with interest. - Clifford Cohen
If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today. - Ashish Patel
it does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it ,its not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days - alaa zabaneh
There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older. - Criss Jami
They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night. - Katelin Wagner
Government should do a few things, and do them right - George W. Bush
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail. - Logan Pearsall Smith
After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works. - Gwen Stefani
Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying. - Steven Magee
Few things are as exhilarating and challenging for a man as winning a woman’s heart.Few things are as efficient in preserving your marriage as doing it every day, for the rest of your life. - Zoran Stojkovski
Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark. - Fakeer Ishavardas
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. - Charles Baudelaire
There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference. - Steve Goodier
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. - Barack Obama
But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what? - Andrew Hussie
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level. - Daniel Marques
Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly. - Drew Goodman
Few of us ever touch eternity, and if we do, it is not in the ways we expect. - Jordan MacLean
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
When your lover is your best friend…then you know you’re one of the few and the fortunate. - Toni Sorenson
Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame. - Deyth Banger
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For those who believe in resurrection, death is inconsequential. It's not an ending but rather a new beginning. A second chance, a reunion. The very idea of resurrection is so seductive a concept it's easy to forget, before you can rise from the dead you have to spend a few days in hell. - Emily Thorne
A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them. - Will Cuppy
There are too many people, and too few human beings. - Robert Zend
For in this world of ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decays, that crumbles into dust even more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself, than beauty: namely grief. - Marcel Proust
One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur. - Steve Maraboli
Joy in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet. - Donna Lynn Hope
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few. - Wendell Phillips
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. - Voltaire
I never thought the touch of another person could make the nerves jangle and dance beneath my skin. It was like I had slept the last few months away and now, suddently, I was waking up. - Shannon Delaney
I saw a few Sligo people at Mass in Gardiner Street this morning and the omens seem to be good for them, the priest was wearing the same colours as the Sligo jersey! 40 yards out on the Hogan Stand side of the field Ciarán Whelan goes on a rampage, it's a goal. So much for religion. - Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh
In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives. - Shannon L. Alder
One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. - Junot Díaz
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans. - John Kerry
The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training. - Ortega y Gasset José
In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. - Yann Martel
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes. - David Nicholls
work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.} J.J. Thomson - His
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras
These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about for a day or two, others entertained my thoughts for a year or a few. Each place and person gave me wisdom or growth, and, if I was lucky, sometimes I'd get both. - Hubert Martin
A man of few words is wiser than a man that speaks out his mind~ - Elena Toledo
Everyone out there knows a lot of or little about something few are the people which will share and the other big result or big percentage are the people which know and don't share (but why?). - Deyth Banger
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
Many things catches your eyes, appreciate them. But few things catches your heart, pursue them. - Viju Chakavarthy
A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said. - Brian Andreas
I found awesome quotes here which are marvel, but the main problem is that from 10000000000000000000000000 people which is an endless result few of them read them. What happens with the other part?? To clever to read this? - Deyth Banger
In the depths of my heart I can't help being convniced that my dear fellow men, with few exceptions, are worthless. - Sigmund Freud
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. - Homer
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. - Alexander Hamilton
The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Few of us have reached such impasses to claim ourselves to be almighty; as of yet I am not one of the few. Knowing this though sets me apart from the two sides of the many. - James Emlund
Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit. - Dale Ludwig
Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart - Munia Khan
Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose. - Vikram Roy
Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words. - Scott Nicholson
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. - Rose Wilder Lane
Few of us realize our potential; because if we did, we would pursue our passion and walk in our purpose. - Germany Kent
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter - Charles Bukowski
I have two questions for you: one, what kind of person do you want to be? Two, what kind of music would I find on your playlist? If any answer in the second question is in conflict with your answer to the first question, you may want to make a few changes. - Justin Young
Camille, a few feet away, looked like a gypsy who had mislaid his violin and had been searching for it in a hedgerow; he frustrated daily the best efforts of an expensive tailor, wearing his clothes as a subtle comment on the collapsing social order. - Hilary Mantel
Fewer the necessities, better your life will be. - Dada Bhagwan
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. - Francis Bacon
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. - Louis L'Amour
Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military. - Steven Magee
Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained. - Marcia Angell
Should we hold back from loving people because we carry the wounds of a few? - Sydney Scrogham
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous. - Nathanael West
Mistakes are part of your life; it is impossible to live a mistake-free life! You have made mistakes and you shall make mistakes! Just let them be fewer and smaller! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy. - Amit Kalantri
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and I shall boldly add all can be theologians. - Desiderius Erasmus
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - Samuel Johnson
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. - Diana Palmer
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. - Dorothy Bryant
I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. - Whitney Houston
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. - Primo Levi
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression. - A dangerous Method, 2011 (Movie)
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more. - Susan Sontag
Lions are born knowing they are predators. Antelopes understand they are the prey.Humans are one of the few creatures on Earth given the choice. - Patrick H.T. Doyle
As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore - Jade Kosche
We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land. - Debasish Mridha
An art is a poetry but only a few can read it. - Debasish Mridha
It does not take a million complicated words to call yourself a writer, it only takes a simple few when they have been placed in the right order. -- - Reed Abbitt Moore
Every human desires peace and happiness, but only a few have the goal to attain those. - Debasish Mridha
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. - Edgard Varese
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. - Herodotus
It's funny how love can fit inside a brown cardboard box. With relationships, people often think that things pile up. But when it ends, they're surprised how few these things turn out to be. Or at least, how few things they are willing to let go of. - Juan Miguel Sevilla
Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them. - David C. Day
DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be. - Johnathon Porritt
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few. - Albert Einstein
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make. - Joe Hill
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. - Harry S Truman
Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery. - Shannon L. Alder
Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Every man is insane, however only a few actually have true insanity. - Aaron Russo
It is better to be respected by few than to be feared by all - mng
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. - Unknown
Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. - George MacDonald
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. - George Bernard Shaw
Everyone's crazy, but few show it. - Hannah Vandegrift
SO MANY PEOPLE, SO FEW POETS - Amy King
Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to achieve it. - Joe Joe Dawson
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. - Pythagoras
Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance. - Paul Valéry
I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts. The indications revealed. That few of us realize life is quite surreal - Owl City
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things. - Mother Teresa
Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. - Florynce Kennedy
Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.They have an impact like that of gravity.They heavy you like few tons of concrete,Therefore,Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's. - Nomthandazo Tsembeni
One of the few times in a man's life when he is not full of shit!!The morning of a colonoscopy. Enough said! - Jim Lawrence
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. - Bertrand Russell
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality - Sara Bergmark Elfgren
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. - Samuel Johnson
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. - Larry Page
Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
May I have a few friends and many books - both true. - A. Cowley
Those who have assets must withdraw them from the markets of loans. Do not accept notes of loan on speculation. The time will soon come when you will gain no profits from the market of loans, and your wealth will be taken by the very few. - Compton Gage
Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read. - Donna Lynn Hope
I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others. - Eric Diehl
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back - Blaise Pascal
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up - Jodi Picoult
Don't try to provoke me, you won't win because of few words... I will be just quite because you are under my level! - Deyth Banger
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. - Maureen Murphy
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. - Abigail Adams
A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level - Saji Ijiyemi
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side. - Gautama Buddha
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. - Randy K. Milholland
So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures. - Marcel Proust
Law is for everyone, justice is for few. - Sercan Leylek
Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being? - Matthieu Ricard
Only a few have learned to savor the significance of solitude. Those who can glory in being alone on occasion are the saint or poet or explorer. - William P. Barker
One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. - Franz Kafka
But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours. - Simon Sebag Montefiore
My mind does not change with the rising and setting of a few suns - J.R.R. Tolkien
Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years - Rei Anthony Albon
Debbie Downer" was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly. - Amy Poehler
Personal conviction held always in life that it is better to spend a few minutes in Bathroom or Lavatory than many hours in a Laboratory or Library for the novelty in idea generation and incubation. - Anuj Somany
Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul, and you know you have been blessed just to know them. - Ashley Rice
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. - Brian K. Vaughan
Love is the giving from the heartWithout expecting any return.Love is the sharing the beauty of lifeWithout expecting any charm or joyLove is the caring with kindnessWithout knowing caring is the joy. - Debasish Mridha
That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. - William Shakespeare
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind. - John Adams
Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals. - Amit Kalantri
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! - Benjamin Franklin
You can't be happy, you was prank again and again and you was just in a trap nothing else. That wasn't him, even this and that guy. You just killed the witnesses and few cops! - Deyth Banger
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance. - Matshona Dhliwayo
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective. - Sara Sheridan
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. - Mary Stewart
One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls. - Daleen Van Tonder
Ownership of words is the reason, only few of us truly keep and respect our words. If you won't keep yours, it's probably not yours. - Seun Ayilara
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. - Sallust
There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast? - Diane Ackerman
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. - James Thurber
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neill
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement. - Jane Austen
Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor - Solange nicole
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities. - Len Deighton
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. - Clarence Darrow
We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper. - Sabine Shah
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington
The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.] - George Gaylord Simpson
Don't ever marry a person you don't truly love. Don't believe what people often say, that the love will develop in future.Those whose love develop in future are very few. If after a period of time you've been dating and the love doesn't seem to grow, I strongly advise you have to re-think. - Prince Akwarandu
It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen. - W. Somerset Maugham
It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things. - Dele Ayo Bankole
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it. - Hugh Macleod
Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight? - Kirby Larson
Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced - Ricky Maye
For the last 2 years I even have been making an attempt to downsize my makeup assortment. I appraise what is passed on to friends and family and what must been thrown away each few months. This has left Maine with a makeup assortment that i actually fancy victimization. I have - raman kundal
Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. - David P. Mikkelson
Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. - J. R. R. Tolkien
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or is discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie
You don't need an army always to win battlesFew Warriors are enough to win ...... - Adil Adam Memon
There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor - Nelson Mandela
None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men. - Pavitraa Parthasarathy
We are nothing but a few atoms arranged in an intricate organized way. - Debasish Mridha
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wishes to die. The same could be said about success. Everybody wants to achieve it but few are willing to pay the price of success. - Michael A. Contés II
A man wakes up and for a few moments he experiences everything exactly as it is. Jon wrote: A man wakes up and is lucid. It doesn’t last long, though, he thought, that kind of lucidity. If it did you wouldn’t be able to stand it, it would kill you. - Ullmann, Linn
There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it. - François de La Rochefoucauld
One size may fit all, but no footprint is the same. The right path for you may be a few steps to the left. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. - H. L. Mencken
The leading research in the adverse human health effects of electromagnetic radiation is not being done by well funded governments or corporations, it is coming from a few self funded independent researchers. - Steven Magee
The very term ‘public utility’ is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified. - Murray N. Rothbard
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. - Anonymous
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century. - Swami Vivekananda
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading. - Alan Clark
If it's not for Him, I guess I'd be dead few years ago. - Jestoni Revealed
If everyone, every morning, thought about peace just for a few minutes instead of thinking about what to eat for breakfast we would have peace in the world. - Debasish Mridha
The emergence of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is where Autism was back in the 1970's and very few children had the condition. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity must not be allowed to explode into the new epidemic that Autism has become. - Steven Magee
Jennifer where are you going, dear? Dinner will be ready in a minute. Your brothers found a few unattended five year olds. - Shakuita Johnson
Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love; but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation. - M.F. Moonzajer
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. - George Jean Nathan
Eventually everything connects people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is. - Charles Eames
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. - Anaïs Nin
Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them - Mario Puzo
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves. - Matshona Dhliwayo
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. - Garrison Keillor
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. - Abraham Lincoln
...and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die. - Erich Maria Remarque
Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are. - Rich Mullins
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. - Abigail Adams
We want to develop the nationWe want to develop the stateWe want to develop the society,But very few of us wants let the neighbor grow.Then how could the world will grow. - Jovieal James
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
Some people would never forget certain people, a few people would remember everyone, and most of us would mostly be forgotten. - Joshua Ferris
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. - Robertson Davies
In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world. - Neil M Gunn
No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election. - John Quincy Adams
Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms. - Jorge Ramos
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
no time agoor else a lifewalking in the darki met christjesus)my heartflopped overand lay stillwhile he passed(asclose as i’m to youyes closermade of nothingexcept loneliness. - E.E. Cummings
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did. - Eugenio Montale
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never forget to stop and drink the beauty of roses to get drunk for a few moments of life. - Debasish Mridha
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] - John F. Kennedy
I like feeling like I'm something , That I'm some ones. i never had this be fore . its really pretty all light and pink and green like a spring day but with a few grey clouds that come and go and help the flowers grow . This feeling it's love. - Lizzy Blue
When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life. - Gabrielle Zevin
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master. - Sallust
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It would seem no matter how progressive we get there are always those few who are backwards in their ways. - Solange nicole
Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great. - Pontius Joseph
I am staring into eyes so dark and compelling that I feel as if I could easily lose myself within them. He moves me slightly away from his body but doesn't let go. Energy, just like in the forest a few nights ago, ebbs and flows betwen us. - Jennifer Sucevic
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. - Judy Garland
There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it may seem, very few are - The Town and Country Magazine. vol. 11, 1779
Each sunrise is a masterpiece, but few appreciate it; therefore, don’t be disheartened when people disregard your kindness. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Only a few will LEAD; the rest will follow. Who is leading you and what are they leading you to? - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Even subjects that are known are known only to a few - Aristotle
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. - Charles Buxton
In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Every once in a while, large cities have narrow streets, silent passageways that allow your footsteps to echo in the stillness of the night, and it seems like everything is going back to the way it was, when there were only a few of us and we all knew each other and greeted each other on the street. - Jaume Cabré
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. - Bertrand Russell
Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom. - Israelmore Ayivor
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity. - Angela Carter
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. - John Lennon
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. - Eric Hoffer
It takes time, hard-work and a lot of sacrifices to upgrade a Curriculum Vitae,however the day you lose your honor in the society, it will take only few seconds to make it become useless. - m.k dindoyal
If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of atleast a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies followyour business approach, you are certainly an important manager withleader characteristics. - Eraldo Banovac
in every 1st October we Nigerians helps very few of us celebrate there independence, very. soon. we will celebrate our own. - Hamzatribah
No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many. - Theodore Roosevelt
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - Bill Vaughan
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. - Paul Eldridge
Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself. - Karl Marx
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions. - Coventry Patmore
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. - Amos Bronson Alcott
It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire. - Will Durant
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. - James M. Barrie
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. - Nolan Bushnell
I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal. - Andrena Sawyer
Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble. - Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Be good on terms with everyone but only keep a few close. - Moosa Rahat
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. - George Burns
Honesty has a power that very few people can handle - Steven Aitchison
Trust had become a commodity that few could afford. - Kimberly Derting
When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past. - M.F. Moonzajer
All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above. - Brandi L. Bates
Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures. - Lionel Suggs
Deep love is no inusual nowadays. It's just for a few brave those understand it's an everydat's journey, fed it with respect, honesty, faith and lots of laugh. - SoyLaAzu
Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both. - Edith Hamilton
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture. - Phil Cooke
A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness - Steven Magee
Participating in the filling of others' brains with knowledge and know-how is just an extraordinary gift only very few have. Hence, teaching a language is indeed opening these brains to the world with its similarities and dissimilarities taught in different words. - Messaoud Mohammed
After all we have few friends, if we don't show that we care about them, we will reach 0 friends... - Deyth Banger
Few people will understand that to love is like being able to select and read a good book. They don’t just stop at the title or the cover. They stop because...they wanted to read the content. The wanted to read each word, each sentence, each line, but most of all, what was in between the lines... - lauren klarfeld
Everything we could possibly want or need is there for the taking, but we are blinded by fears of lack and limitation, and we have bought the lie that resources are limited, so we must therefore compete for the few that are left. - Stephen Richards
The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11 - David Platt
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. - Oscar Levant
...darkness is not everywhere - for here and there I find a few faces illuminated from within. Paper lanterns swaying among the dark trees. - Carol Anne Borges
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. - John W. Gardner
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable. - John H. Alexander
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. - Calvin Coolidge
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. - Freeman Dyson
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water. - Sherwood Smith
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. - Moby
Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves. - Leah Remini
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas. - George Santayana
Mideast Christians have few allies in American politics: they are too foreign for the Right and too Christian for the Left. - Mark Movsesian
We are all trying to find a path back to the present moment. And good enough reason to just be happy here... Mindfulness meditation is just a trick for doing that. It's a trick for setting aside your to-do list, if only for a few moments, and actually locate a feeling of fulfilment in the present - Sam Harris
In my hands I held gold dust and tarnished rust, but looking further in, I saw the few diamonds I've come to know as soul mates in my life. They sparkled a little brighter and I'd notice the lack of weight if they were gone. They would leave not as a loss, but as a hole in my palm. - Hubert Martin
Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat. - John Robbins
Where facts are few, experts are many. - Donald R. Gannon
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington
Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films. - Deyth Banger
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. - Arthur C. Clarke
Character builds on characters. Very few can recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one. - Vikram Roy
There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question. - Vironika Tugaleva
Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms. - Debasish Mridha
The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. - Robert Galbraith
I just read few books, and this books made a magic in my life. - Deyth Banger
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud. - Louis Sachar
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. - John Ruskin
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
They are a bunch of bastards - and I'm saying this on my own now, not just because my father told it to me. -- [Comment about businessmen in general, made a few days after the newspaperas printed his statement of 10 April 1962 that his father always told him that businessmen were "sons of bitches."]
Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said? - Colette
There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question. - Antonia Michaelis
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. - David O. McKay
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. - O. A. Battista
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. - Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. - Henry Ford
The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in. - George Washington
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi
Practicing the Presence of God is bringing our heart body, soul, and mind to God, to be in His Presence to love Him, to worship Him, to lay our troubles and triumphs with Him, to rest in Him. What a glorious idea….but few of us ever find that rest! - David Paul Kikrpatrick
A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change it’s story. - Sebastyne Young
The door to success may be a few steps away but you still have to walktowards it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Being impatient is rocket fuel for success. I have seen very few patient successful people. Most are impatient and always ready to move! - Robert D. Kintigh
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. - Colette
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. - Sir Henry Taylor
We are the choice elected fewLet all the rest be damnedThere is room enough in hell for youWe won’t have heaven crammed! - Roland H. Bainton
Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney Harris
But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose. - Rick Riordan
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics. - Libba Bray
In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer. - Adam Sisman
Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time. - Christopher Paolini
Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God's precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian. - J.C. Ryle
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. - Tommy Lee
Few people repent at leisure after taking the high road. - Walter Spence
People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone. - Amit Kalantri
Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms. - Robert Fanney
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless! - William McDonough
History is an excellent teacher with few pupils. - Will Durant
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I laugh at myself. It's so important to laugh at yourself. Have a little heart chuckle, cry a few tears. It's OK! Don't apologize for being you. Just be you. Be true to who you are and who you want to be! - Akiroq Brost
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. - Molière
The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating. - Naomi Shihab Nye
There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments! - Israelmore Ayivor
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. - Phaedrus
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - Voltaire
Spending a few moments right when you wake up to inspire and motivate yourself can make all the difference in the rest of your day. - Daniel Willey
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.
Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice. - John Barrymore
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. - Arthur C. Clarke
Want to change the world? Get creative and solve problems. The world has too many factory workers and too few problem solvers. - Kevin J. Donaldson
love everyone,trust a few and rely on nobody - Claude lavallee
Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately? - Janet Fitch
Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done. - Kim Gordon
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
I trust a few people in my life but there is one who gets my full trust. and that is my book. - mino
I'm very curious why people in school all the time from 2-3 class up to the last 6-7 they talk about football. What can be said??Sharing about a team few sentences, who has won, and rought said that's all. But why people stretch it like a Turkish delight with the same end??? - Deyth Banger
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. - Socrates
Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen! - Bernard Kelvin Clive
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.
I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline bangs through my system. I shove Abel behind me and whip my knife from where I’d hidden it in my boot. Who the hell are you? - Georgia Clark
I swiftly discovered that there are few things in DIY (and possibly life) that can't be solved with a large mallet, a bag of ten-centimetre nails and some swearing. - Monty Halls
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets. - Alessandra Torre
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. - Immanuel Kant
Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We’re still waiting for the results. - Charles Finch
True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen. - François de La Rochefoucauld
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' - Steven Wright
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. - Halifax
[...] nonstate conflicts kill far fewer people than conflicts that involve a government, perhaps a quarter as many. Again, this is not surprising, since goverments almost by definition are in the violence business. - Steven Pinker
I have the mind to do so many fields, careers, jobs, and hobbies; but I have the heart to do few fields of work, careers, jobs, and hobbies - Temitope Owosela
There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live - Fela Durotoye
The Hills Have EYes... so be careful where you step and where you go so far one family has went there and few of them have came back! - Deyth Banger
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain
The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists. - Álvaro de Campos
Everyone will grow older, but few will grow wiser. - Syed Ahmad Fathi
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. - Bryant McGill
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. - Robert Henri
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. - Bertrand Russell
Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America. - Michael Stipe
They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me. - Charles Dickens
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink. - Honoré de Balzac
Everyone craves for truth, but only few like the taste of it. - Tushar Chauhan
Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse! - Ramana Pemmaraju
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston S. Churchill
Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny. - Suzanne Weyn
Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. - Esther de Wall
It has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary. - Bert McCoy
I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues. - Charlaine Harris
The very first few days when you actually start having symptoms of falling for someone special, are the days of heavenly bliss and unreasonable madness. - Abhijit Naskar
Canada: A few acres of snow. - Voltaire
A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet. - Eileen Granfors
A life is like a book of many chapters, some interesting, a few boring,a handful sad,one or two memorable, many joyful and others thoughtful. - Elzabeth Adeniyi
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it. - Tobias Wolff
Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life! - Tony Dovale
Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them. - Jan Karon
Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies. - R.M. Ford
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. - Lauren DeStefano
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. - Karl Marx
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. - Earl Shoaf
Listen to life story of few people, made me think 'human being are prefer to leave than to be replaced..it take years to recover the pain..once recovered and they accept you, appreciate it...its hard to trust other people twice (Ejump,2016) - Ejump Schiffler
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. - Gerald R. Ford
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. - Agnes Repplier
AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. Padahal ada banyak kesalahan yang hanya perlu dimaafkan, bukan dihukum. An eye for an eye will make us all blind. - Morra Quatro
I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer. - Erica Eisdorfer
I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them. - Steve Goodier
Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few. - Michael Moore
Theory is like a book.It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie. - Tim Goossens
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. - Mark Twain
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
I have seen people starting the fire with water, turning every breeze into a storm, create chaos out of peace. Few people are meant to destroy everything and themselves no matter what, and if you hold on to them long they will take you into their abyss and tear you into pieces. - Akshay Vasu
When admiring human accomplishments we should not confusethe achievements of the few for the capacity of the many. - Geoffroy Birtz
He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. - Henry Fielding
'But' is a fence over which few leap. - German proverb
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
How many great gems were lost to thoughtand not put down to pen.You can but think of just a fewand then they're lost again. - L.F. Young
Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special—otherwise special wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones—and this is the problem. - Tim Urban
There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back—all their lives. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men. - Amit Kalantri
I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.
Very few people realize how dangerous the indoor environment can be to long term health. - Steven Magee
There are very few things in the world I hate more than Daylight Savings Time. It is the grand lie of time, the scourge of science, the blight on biological understanding. - Michelle Franklin
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. - Tom Robbins
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. - David McCullough
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits. - Timothy Ferriss
Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age. - Anne Gracie
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. - Primo Levi
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. - Samuel Johnson
Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli - J.R.R. Tolkien
Smile. Give Earth the biggest smile you've got. See every glimmer of light in the scariest, darkest sky. And when people think you're crazy, then you know you've accomplished something very few dare to try. - Lana M. H. Wilder
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few. - Debbie Novotny
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it? - T.K. Naliaka
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.
A few years ago I started an online flirtation with a high school flame, Andy. Things got weird and I called it off and two months later...Versace was dead...dead. - Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan
A few people of integrity can go a long way. - Bill Kauth
Shouldn’t we respect that fewer women want to go into some areas of study than other areas of study? - Chris Sardegna
There is no equality while privileges enjoyed by the many are denied to the few. - Robert Cubitt
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening. - Antonin Sertillanges
Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe. - American proverb
You want money... Okay... Now few dollars... then few... then few... and poof everything is gone. That's call failure! - Deyth Banger
If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships. - Mark Twain
Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book. - Russell Delman
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - Ethan Virt
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. - William Shakespeare
Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. - Rita Rudner
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! - Anaïs Nin
Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. - Karl Kraus
If a friend says - I'm Fine - they don't mean it, but if you're a real friend, then you wouldn't mind spending a few more minutes with them. - BlackStar103
Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes. - Shannon L. Alder
Understand that friends come and go. But a precious few, who should hold on. - Baz Luhrmann
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras
One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few,your troubles will not be many. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Success is like the most beautiful woman:pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few,courted by the patient and hardworking,and won over by good judgment. - Matshona Dhliwayo
To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. - Charles Darwin
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. - Irwin Shaw
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) - Albert Einstein
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you'll understand why I dismiss yours.
Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it. - Oscar Wilde
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. - Edward P. Morgan
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses. - Matshona Dhliwayo
As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer! - Deyth Banger
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. - Abigail Adams
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed! - John T. Montgomery
We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts. - Nick Hornby
Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility. - Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. - Edward Abbey
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom. - James C. Scott
Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them. - Andres Heinz, Mark Heyman, John J. McLaughlin
Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut... - Sanhita Baruah
Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it. - Mekael Shane
Life has few things you could be grateful for, such as Reunions. - Emna Mizouni
How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny. - FARRELL J.G.
In nature there are few sharp lines. - A. R. Ammons
There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails. - Agnostic Zetetic
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? - W.E.B. Du Bois
Adventures are to the adventurous. They abound on every side; but only the chosen few have the courage to embrace them. And they will not come to you; you must go out to seek them. Then they meet you half-way, and rush into your arms, for they know their true lovers. - Allen Grant
Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster. - Benjamin Barber
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. - Robert Henri
Few great men could pass personnel. - Paul Goodman
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy - Mikhail Bakunin
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. - G. K. Chesterton
I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions. - Dalinar Kholin
Few things inspire me more than a timely smile from someone I truly admire. - Robert J. Braathe
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. - Logan Pearsall Smith
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate. - Pamela Ribon
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. - Friedrich Schiller
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred Allen
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki
More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally. - Shannon L. Alder
Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied. - Robert A. Caro
Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar. - Israelmore Ayivor
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now. - Arthur C. Clarke
Question for job applicants: What important truth do very few people agree with you on? - Peter Thiel
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things. - Baruch Spinoza
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party. - Dennis Miller
Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can. - Ljupka Cvetanova
Marriage is just like business, only a few succeed, many manage & the REST RESIGN. - Auliq-Ice
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. - Douglas Adams
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. - Sir Francis Bacon
Pain in life is forever, But happiness is for few moment.It's reality. - Ayatullah Sadik
Be kind to all and trust all. If you do so, only a few will break your trust. - Debasish Mridha
Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just is,’ and too few see it as something that ‘is’ only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant paying a stiff price. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hey, be patient you'll have to kiss a few frogs before you find one that's your prince - Mya Waechtler
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. - Benjamin Disraeli
Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few. - Moutasem Algharati
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. - Robert Henri
Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you’ll rebuild your life in a few short years. - Kevin J. Donaldson
No, it is remrable that everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been suprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains.
There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.
Friendship is a wonderful thing.True friends are a treasure to hunt.Making a lot a friends does not make any sense Sincerity,,loyalty and understanding are the key factors in a meaningful friendship. Only very few possess all these qualities.And only very few are blessed with true friends - Deepti
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. - Bible
All men have life, but only few men know its value. - Sunday Adelaja
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. - Sylvia Plath
Sister? Jessie Kay scowled. Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way. - Gena Showalter
There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning. - Matt Chandler
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. - W.H. Auden
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods a few seconds after he took Viagra. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land - Harriet Martineau
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. - Ray Bradbury
Most people think that they're are there to conform. While a few others know that life is all about confrontations. - Rola Mahmoud
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one. - Vikram Roy
Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water. - Sandra E. Lamb
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. - Stanley Kunitz
One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. - Joe Roman
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back.... and add a few lemons of your own. - Clara deLemos
The works which this leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.{Cuvier on Joseph Banks} Georges Cuvier - man
It’d be a mistake, Lee said. I think maybe you have to make a few, Merrin said. If you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make. - Joe Hill
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. - Mark Twain
from Out of the Darkness (book 2):Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?"His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire. - Jaime Rush
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. - Garrison Keillor
What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? - Charles M. Schulz
Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too - 69rascal
A kiss is one of the few futuristic events that comes to my present everyday.. - Jai prakash
People with fewer economic resources have very limited opportunity for joining the global internet economy. - Arzak Khan
No tricks, Syn, Ryder growled from where he stood a few feet away.Tricks are for kids, silly rabbit, I said - Amelia Hutchins
The major problem of the world is, most of the people are unjustifiably angry and very few are loving. - Amit Kalantri
People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few. - Zhuangzi
We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. - Cesare Pavese
How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models. - Bill Watterson
The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. - Yann Martel
I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create... - Dorothy Breininger
Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach. - Criss Jami
During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention. - Dale Ludwig
For many are called, but few are chosen. - Bible
Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground. - Alexander Pope
I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes. - Peter Bradley Adams
Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession. - Amit Kalantri
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. - François de La Rochefoucauld
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince - ilana Graf
School is a jail, people want there a lot of and when you are out of school what you know from school you remember few and it's useless. So far 12 years at school... (Take it 12 years at jail!) - Deyth Banger
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. - John R.W. Stott
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. - Dr. David M. Burns
Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few. - Sir Winston Churchill
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world. - M.F.K. Fisher
It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right. - John C. Lennox
Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl, and it is up to us to pick the ones with the highest luster. If we do not have time to do great things, take a few gentle moments and do small things in a great way. - Joyce Hilfer
The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom. - Sachin Kalbag
Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds. - Bruce H. Jackson
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. - C.J. Langenhoven
Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again. - Pawan Mishra
She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few years enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and left. Excited a few men in the meantime.
If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts. - David Brooks
I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin. - Neil Gaiman
If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them - Karl Marx
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. - Dag Hammarskjöld
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. - Benjamin Franklin
Many admire, few know. - Hippocrates
Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free. - Mary Karr
A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you. - Khaled Hosseini
They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first.
Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it. - Hermann Hesse
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. - Anonymous
Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't it interesting that they were God's chosen in the bible? ---Saul, Judas & King David - Shannon L. Alder
There are few things more contagious than a healthy attitude. - Charles F. Glassman
As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops. - Frank Muir
Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority. Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential. - Tony Curl
A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect. - Amit Kalantri
Many receive advice, few profit by it. - Publilius Syrus
With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left. - Joe L. Wheeler
The fewer the words, the better you’re heard! - Chinonye J. Chidolue
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. - Lord Chesterfield
As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is. - Roman Payne
Trust, you give it and you take it away. You believe it with everything you have in you, you allow your heart to trust somebody else. I trusted very few in life, but sometimes you just needed to give in and fight the urge to flee. - Holly Hood
My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer. - Octavia E. Butler
Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home. - Oscar Hammerstein II
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get. - David Foster Wallace
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn
A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person... - Stanley Victor Paskavich
I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away. - Deborah Meyler
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it. - Daniel Keyes
This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God. - Paul Tillich
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. - Unknown
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) - Thomas Jefferson
Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often and in my inmost self perhaps all the time I doubt whether I am a human being. - Franz Kafka
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. - Woody Allen
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes - Sidney Howard
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of life. - O. Henry
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. - Joseph Conrad
Many can capture your eyes but just a chosen few can truly captivate your heart and soul." -Author/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo - Elizabeth E. Castillo
A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. - Mark Twain
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. - Arthur Brisbane
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. - Doug Larson
Love is one of the few thingsyou don't lose giving away. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. - Bethania McKenstry
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life. - Katie Couric
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. - Christian Bauman
For some folks fate has set countless falls and a fewer loves. If they farewell faith, then, farewell their chance of lifelong happiness. - Darmie Orem
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too
When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. - Roman Payne
Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free. - Mary Karr
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. - Gamal Abdel Nasser
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation. - Benjamin Disraeli
Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder. - Julie Murphy
Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. - Michael A. Stackpole
There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason. - Gregory David Roberts
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford
The importance of friends few people would be able to recognize some friend comes in our life readily and consequently they goes but life doesn't stop for anyone but only one thing remains that is their memories which cannot be wipe out as you guys always remain in my heart and we are the best - Avinash Advani
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. - Walter Bagehot
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them. - Satchel Paige
I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is. - Clifford Stoll
I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out. - Kevin Brooks
To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride. - Nathanael Greene
I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia. - C.S. Lewis
You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. - Hannah Harding
But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won’t be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You’ll carry for it for ever, when you could have had a few more years of blissful innocence. Are you sure, now? - Alastair Reynolds
All of us at one point end face up in a ditch, but only a few will choose to look up at the stars and dream. - Shannon L. Alder
Age never matters when there is a will to learn more will to learn better.!!Always remember, every success story begins with a START.!!Anyone can desire but there are few who DESERVE.!!Anyone can desire, be the one who DESERVE.!! - Harsh Malik
Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear. - Leon Courville
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there. - Michael Lewis
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy
Many have knowledge and only few have wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice. - Jacob Wild
...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm. - Heidi Reagan
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal. - Terence McKenna
Men of few words are the best men. - William Shakespeare
Sometimes wisdom dictates that you take a few steps backwards to be able to go much further - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough - Richard M DeVos
Act like everyone you meet is an angel, because sometimes they will be an angel. Would you cuss out that person if you knew that they were an angel that was about to save your life in a few seconds? - Preston Wagner
The less gear you use, the more you grow as a photographer. Although there are fewer options available, you'll find more creative ways to capture what you feel! In a way, all your technical options before turn into creative solutions that improve your photography even more. - Marius Vieth
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. - Thomas Jefferson
What's the rush? Recognise that with the time at our disposal, there is only a limited number of good books you can read, a few really good movies worth seeing, and a finite number of hours, days, years to enjoy them! - Ken Puddicombe
When it comes to politics, "the facts far exceed our curiosity.""...A few executives here and there read them. The rest of us ignore them for the good and sufficient reason that we have other things to do.... - Walter Lippmann
Few take up the burden of their own victory: most give up their dreams when they become impossible.
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few preparedto learn to draw? - Banksy
I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I found out were gay. I never asked peoples sexual orientation. - Mitt Romney
Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet. - Donna Lynn Hope
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. - Albert Einstein
Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. - A.E. Samaan
He who begins many things finishes but few. - Italian Proverb
The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
You ain't get nothing for staying low, lazy. The world only tremble at the feet of the few craziest doers ever lived. - Olawale Daniel
Tell few about your dreams and show the rest in the way you make a life with it. - Nikki Rowe
Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them. - Kartik Mehta
Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents. - Orrin Woodward
A life is similar to a book. Some chapters are boring,a few emotional, a handful memorable,others saddening,one or two thoughtful and many full of smiles. - Elizabeth Adeniyi
implementation of thoughts is attainedby few and so is success - shivangi lavaniya
That you rescued few peoples lifes or somebody's life. Doesn't mean that they we return this back!They could decide to kill you..., who knows? (Person Of Interest) - Deyth Banger
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. - John Masefield
A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind - Rasheed Ogunlaru
I have my own stories. A few are known and some untold. Be a tragic one or a comedy one, stories are meant to end at a certain point. Stories... teach us whether we are the option or we are comparing. - Upasana Banerjee
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus
I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died] - Johannes Kepler
A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan
Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive. - Roy T. Bennett
It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more. - Moby
...I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters,... - Daniel Defoe
My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality. - Kenneth Everett
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be. - Deborah Day
It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,But in the after-silence on the shoreWhen all is lost except a little life. - George Gordon Byron
most men know what they hate; few what they love - Charles Caleb Colton
It needs a very long time to earn a great respect but it just needs a few second to spoil all respect... - Shehryar
The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile. - Hans Selye
There's few problems an orgasm won't solve. - Michelle Foster
Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't. - Jay Samit
For all the things we do in our lives and the people that surround us, its family and those few loyal friends that God has blessed us with. - Ron Baratono
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner
There are very few innocent sentences in writing. - David Foster Wallace
Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map. - Sarah Addison Allen
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Adams
Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice - Howell James
Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body... - Kiley MacLeod
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. - Paul Strand
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life and maybe even please a few strangers. - A.L. Kennedy
It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed. - Steve Merrick
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. - Steven Weinberg
Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life. - Laura Moncur
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. - Will Rogers
Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. - Sara Sheridan
I dont care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. - Josh Billings
The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making. - Lillian Smith
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. - Zeena Schreck
Me: I am very busy now. Can you please excuse me for few minutes?She: Oh ok. But why are you sweating all over your body?Me: I am very busy, that is why. I am dreaming extra-large dreams. - Israelmore Ayivor
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years. - Alexander Graham Bell
Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter! - Beverly K. Bachel
Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality. - Debasish Mridha
The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world. - John Cheever
Her angel didn’t look at all like she’d expected. He was no benevolent creature with long, flowing robes and a bland, peaceful smile. Instead he was the stuff of every teenage girl’s—and quite a few teenage boys’—fantasies. - Rosalie Lario
I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours. - Stephanie Klein
Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already? - Richelle E. Goodrich
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. - Kurt Vonnegut
Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more. - Martin Amis
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still. - Milorad Pavić
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. - Joseph Conrad
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. - Walt Whitman
Very few people think; most people just conform. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth. - M.F. Moonzajer
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. - Aprocrypha
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. - Alfred Adler
Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact. - Saru Singhal
Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them... so far it's going great... Now just think your three favourite things which you enjoy watching, like for example I like True Crimes, True Stories and so far Suspense. - Deyth Banger
Don’t you burn when fire touches you...? It’s just because the flames are real as are a few things in this world... That’s why love does hurts ... Not because of tears or bad moments but because the passion is real ... And real gets burnt - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Chase opened the mini fridge. Wanna drink? He asked.No thank you and you shouldn’t either.Oh I definitely need one, besides it numbs the hunger. He grabbed a few of the tiny bottles from the door shelf.Then by all means get your drink on. Samuel chuckled. - S.L. Ross
so many people believe but few people receive - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein
A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air. - Eric Sloane
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