Top 100 Quotes About Few Words
#1. Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.
Lord Chesterfield
#2. To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Abigail Adams
#3. The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
Eckhart Tolle
#4. It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#5. I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Mae West
#6. Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.
Gustave Courbet
#9. Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
Anna Brownell Jameson
#10. Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.
Nora Roberts
#11. People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.
Mike Tomlin
#12. The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Adam Baldwin
#13. What do you think dignity's all about?'
The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#14. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
Anonymous
#15. A man of few words,
I just sit still on this hill,
I know death will persist,
I write when my mind is still,
I bleed daily to exist.
P.J. Bayliss
#16. Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
Brigham Young
#17. Counselor sessions, they asked the few of us who actually liked Michael to say a few words. I think they were afraid that some
Stephen Chbosky
#18. You don't have to fight anyone for me," she said.
"Except you."
Oh God. He leveled her with a few words and searing looks. She felt herself in a dizzying plunge, wanting the flight, worried about the landing. "I give as much as I am able," she said.
"I know," he answered.
Zoe Archer
#19. Agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.
Carolyn Warner
#22. It's rare for someone to say something to you, just a few words, really, and actually make you see yourself from a completely different vantage point.
Jonathan Tropper
#24. A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
Sol Stein
#25. At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.
Assata Shakur
#26. I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.
Ana Ivanovic
#27. I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
Olga Kurylenko
#28. 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
#29. People used to ask me questions on my blog about how to break into the acting industry. You often have to start out in parts where you have very few words, but you still have to try to make an impact.
Stephen Amell
#30. Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are?
Sebastian Faulks
#31. I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.
Hilary Swank
#32. Here, in a few words, you've said all you need to say. People stand by each other, but they don't talk. It's remarkable. I've investigated the extraordinary history of these walls. I think I'm the only person who knows that it's the stones, the stones alone that set the tone here.
Jacques Yonnet
#33. It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.
Edna Ferber
#34. As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#35. Few words have been misunderstood more than "love," perhaps with the exception of "God
Akemi G
#36. There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.
Ann Nocenti
#37. 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
#38. For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely.
Melanie Dickerson
#39. I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.
Jim Dale
#40. Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher
Rob Thurman
#41. A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.
John Updike
#42. Let others take care of the details." That, in a few words, is the meaning of delegating work and responsibility.
Meir Liraz
#43. You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#44. Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
Viggo Mortensen
#45. So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin.
Marissa Meyer
#46. How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.
Adam Sandler
#47. Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
Gautama Buddha
#48. Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.
Drew Goodman
#49. Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
Paul David Washer
#50. I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
Ellen Goodman
#51. I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Dale Carnegie
#52. A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant
#53. When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?
Christina Baker Kline
#54. The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.
Samuel Johnson
#55. David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
Tom Brokaw
#56. Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring
Virginia Woolf
#57. Ever afternoon, me and Baby Girl set in the. rocking chair before her nap. Ever afternoon, I tell her: You kind, you smart, you important. But she growing up and I know, soon, them few words ain't gone be enough.
Kathryn Stockett
#58. I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
Edward Carpenter
#59. THE FIRST FEW WORDS of every story are always the hardest to write. It's almost as if pulling them out, putting them on paper, commits you to seeing it all through. As if once you start, you are required to finish. And how do you finish when some things never end?
Amy Harmon
#60. Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
James Cagney
#61. You are not my son." Adrius flinches. With those few words, Augustus releases something. And the small part of Adrius that held out hope to be loved disappears. He shakes off his humanity, leaving only the Jackal.
Pierce Brown
#62. We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.
Julia Cameron
#63. He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them means, people said, but not when he was within hearing.
Terry Pratchett
#64. Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely.
Chris Bohjalian
#65. The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk to the Creator of all-the One who fashioned our world with a few words-knowing that God not only listens but answers.
Margaret Feinberg
#66. Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
Jamey Johnson
#67. Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! "Thank you!
J.K. Rowling
#68. Then Mum died. And Dad grew even quieter. As if she took away with her the few words he'd possessed.
Fredrik Backman
#69. Mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem
a great poem
is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
or are poems.
Lipman Bers
#70. Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#71. A prince, in the turn of a moment and a few words, was now a king.
Mary E. Pearson
#72. I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
Yann Martel
#73. If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds - even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.
James Hilton
#74. There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else's life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.
Antoine Laurain
#75. No matter what
anyone says, we all care, to a
certain extent, how others
view us. We may not care
what everyone thinks of us,
but there's always that one
person, who with a few words
holds the power that could
make us or break us.
Alison G. Bailey
#76. I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.
Cass McCombs
#77. The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.
Frederick Lenz
#78. I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
Gretchen Rubin
#79. When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle
#80. How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
Dwight L. Moody
#81. Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
Epictetus
#82. We'll now hear a few words from Augustus's special friend, Hazel." Special friend? There were some titters in the audience, so I figured it was safe for me to start out by saying to the minister, "I was his girlfriend." That got a laugh.
John Green
#83. We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
Eric Hoffer
#84. I always run away from the simplest phrases because they never contain all of the truth. To me the truth is something which cannot be told in a few words, and those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin
#86. I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.
Joanna Lohman
#87. Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.
Shannon Hale
#89. Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
Alice Sebold
#90. It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.
Tom Perrotta
#91. How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words?
Chloe Neill
#92. Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.
Jennifer Niven
#93. Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.
Jon Voight
#94. Fine. A man - faerie - of few words. I had killed his friend, was an unwanted guest. I wouldn't want to talk to me, either.
Sarah J. Maas
#96. If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.
Vincent Van Gogh
#97. Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
Roger Ebert
#98. Meg McCaffrey, a girl of few words and much belching.
Rick Riordan
#99. What an idea--that with a few words you could catch another person in a little grammatical clutch, arrange the objects of the world such that they bordered the two of you.
Rebecca Lee
#100. In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
Jeremy Renner
