Top 100 Quotes About Few
#1. I sing really well, my friends say. I don't like my voice, but I sang on stage during the Sahara awards a few years ago, so I don't mind singing.
Suresh Raina
#3. You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.
Ibn Warraq
#4. A few years later, in the midst of a brief academic setback, she trained him to act as her emotional cheerleader. I'd call and hear him in the background, screaming, "We love you, Lisa!" and "You can do it!
David Sedaris
#5. I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
Nathan Sawaya
#7. Jonas, Tate's teenaged son ... looking like mini-Tate, giving me the understanding that in a few years, me and every woman over twenty-five years of age in Carnal would be moved to become a cougar.
Kristen Ashley
#8. Except for a few who actually killed people, hardly any "revolutionaries" have been punished for what they did during the Cultural Revolution. Those
Ji-li Jiang
#9. People don't always recognize how serious it can be, that there can be some serious complications from the flu and even death. People believe they'll be down for a few days and then be fine, and that's just not the case.
Sarah Chalke
#10. It is remarkable that a gigantic, city-size computer is required to simulate a piece of human tissue that weighs three pounds, fits inside your skull, raises your body temperature by only a few degrees, uses twenty watts of power, and needs only a few hamburgers to keep it going.
Michio Kaku
#11. Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.
Howard W. Koch
#12. Nixon is 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
#13. The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
Thomas Paine
#14. Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#15. Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.
Oswald Spengler
#16. One changes from day to day, and ... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
George Sand
#17. Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.
John Patrick Hickey
#18. Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days ... or a few months after childbirth.
Richard J. Codey
#19. Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process
it is, after all, black magic.
Edward Albee
#20. Winter comes to balance the warm glow of summer and to teach us to cherish it. A few minutes outside in the cold helps me to remember that.
Debora Geary
#22. The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.
Chris Murray
#23. Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#24. The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.
Chet Atkins
#25. I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.
James Maslow
#26. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
Viktor E. Frankl
#27. From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small.
Eduardo Galeano
#28. There are few people in our life whom we never want to let them go but irony is sometimes all we can do is to see them going apart from us.
Lovely Goyal
#30. guiltlessly kick up your feet and rest in your armchair, enjoying the few things you do have because you truly enjoy them all. You will physically feel better when you get rid of those things you don't need.
Tsh Oxenreider
#31. I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'.
Lee Ryan
#32. 12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %.
Deyth Banger
#33. I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.
Ronnie Montrose
#34. She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.
Jenny Downham
#35. She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.
Aldous Huxley
#36. Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#37. In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
H.L. Mencken
#38. We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.
Carol Tavris
#39. If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.
Marnie Stern
#40. The park was a scruffy patch of grass, muddy in winter and dusty in summer, set about with a few dozen trees, a bandstand, and a pond on which swam a family of depraved and malevolent ducks.
Philip Pullman
#41. The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world - these were the few things that mattered.
Daniel Wallock
#42. I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.
Johnny Weissmuller
#43. However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.
Pete Seeger
#44. Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content. In all, these past few weeks had been some of the most peaceable of her life. She had the sense of existing inside a fragile pause, a moment of grace.
Helene Wecker
#45. I already did a cave of horrors thing with you a few weeks ago, and it wasn't awesome.
Shannon Messenger
#46. The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
Ernestine Rose
#47. We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.
Will Rogers
#48. 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
#49. A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
Rick Moranis
#50. I love when you take bizarre, non-human things and somehow make them human or accessible. I think that's why I like the practical effects. You can look at a creature and still see vulnerability or the character behind the creature. To get character behind CG creatures, that's so few and far between.
Kevin Munroe
#51. To be saints is not a privilege for a few, but a vocation for everyone.
Pope Francis
#52. As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things.
Brandon Sanderson
#53. Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
Peter Hammill
#54. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
Henry David Thoreau
#55. Within a few hours of meeting him, I realized that "love at first sight" just means feeling immediately and extremely calm with someone.
Pamela Druckerman
#56. And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn't changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.
Douglas Coupland
#57. Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.
Jim Bishop
#58. A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.
Poppy Delevingne
#60. It's funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.
Judy Blume
#61. Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.
Dale Ludwig
#62. History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.
Bob Dole
#63. I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
Dennis Miller
#64. For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.
Diane Ackerman
#65. People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#66. Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
Jean Reno
#67. In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome:
Hunter S. Thompson
#68. Do you know how few men there are worth having?
Glen Duncan
#69. 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
#70. His desires are set upon the whole human family, not upon a select few. He is not predisposed to just the fast learners, the naturally inclined, or the morally gifted.
Terryl L. Givens
#71. College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.
David Brooks
#72. Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?
Doug Benson
#73. I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
John Burdett
#74. Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?
Margaret Mitchell
#75. Waiting with too few men, and with every instinct telling me to run. Every instinct, except for that one to hold or break, but never bend. I
Mark Lawrence
#76. A few years ago, before I stopped drinking, I was feeling very sorry for myself and very drunk, and I Googled 'Moby Sucks'. In less than one second something like 20 million responses came up ... yeah, there has been a lot of loathing directed towards me, and it used to drive me crazy.
Moby
#77. High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
Patricia Marx
#78. Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump. Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation.
Rinker Buck
#79. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#80. We went a few decades without a good mullet on TV, so I'm happy to bring it back.
Josh McDermitt
#81. The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.
Ernest Borgnine
#82. So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
Faye Dunaway
#83. I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.
Zach Braff
#84. It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's very frustrating and very challenging, and very few people can pull it off. Some actors can say a thousand words with just a look, and it's a unique gift.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#85. Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give people a chance to ponder a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.
James Adams
#86. Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#87. The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.
Ian Bremmer
#88. Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent; hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play!
Matthew Arnold
#89. She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.
Ransom Riggs
#90. The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few ... This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.
William O. Douglas
#91. 'Beyond Glory' is responsible for this wave that I've been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I did primarily because I didn't know what else to do. You might say I did it out of desperation.
Stephen Lang
#92. If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.
James Elkins
#93. To count a few gulls makes the journey happy.
In the reedy bend, under the willow bank,
My wife and children smile with me.
The moment I fall asleep, wind and waves are quiet;
No glory, no disgrace, and not a single worry.
Wu Cheng'en
#94. I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
Walt Whitman
#95. Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#96. But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
Sri Aurobindo
#97. He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal.
Jeff Kinney
#98. 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
#99. I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class.
Steven Levitt
#100. I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.
Malorie Blackman
