Quotes About Fewer

#1. Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

Mark McCormack

#2. If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!

Phil Robertson

#3. The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#4. Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Hippocrates

#5. You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.

Joanne Hall

#6. A part of him knew that the arc of his self-destruction was glaringly obvious to his customers, who grew steadily fewer, but that same part of him basked in the knowledge that it was only a matter of time.

William Gibson

#7. The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I only have the time and energy for so many people, which has cut down my friend group to a handful, but I'm so much happier with fewer good people, who really do know me.

Gillian Zinser

#8. There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

Alfonso Cuaron

#9. It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

Dan Gelber

#10. Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

Carroll Quigley

#11. 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

#12. Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them

Mario Puzo

#13. Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg

#14. The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

Dov Davidoff

#15. You can be impatient and get fewer results or you can be patient and enjoy more than you desired. The choice is totally yours.

Dhaval Gajera

#16. There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

Jeremy Collier

#18. On the other side of fear is freedom. And usually fewer fingers than you started with.

Jenny Lawson

#19. Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

David Tang

#20. Fewer than half a dozen men

Robert Davis

#21. But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Nelson Mandela

#22. Within this confusion a few fundamentals remain constant:
a. A strong belief is more important than a few facts.
b. The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.
c. The fewer the facts, the more people killed.

Milton A. Rothhman

#23. There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

Blaise Pascal

#24. If you really care about Facebook likes, don't just post your stuff to Twitter and then rely on it being republished automatically to Facebook. In my sample size of one, Facebook penalizes you significantly for that and shows that content to far fewer people.

Michael Arrington

#25. Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

Martial

#26. If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

Mark Twain

#27. When I ask my "Catholic" students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ.

Peter Kreeft

#28. The lessons Morden had learnt when he had broken Billard's finger were that not many understood the real nature of pain, and even fewer understood that true power does not come from indiscriminate acts but calculated demonstrations of Will.

Paul Dale

#29. it feels like her air just became my air and I suddenly want to take in fewer breaths in order to ensure she never runs out. I

Colleen Hoover

#30. However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy.

Larry McMurtry

#31. Today the wolverines of the Lower 48 are confined to a few remote parts of Montana, Idaho, and northern Wyoming, with perhaps a dozen more in Washington's North Cascades. They total no more than 500 and more likely number just 300 or fewer.

Douglas H. Chadwick

#32. Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

Lawrence Hargrave

#33. Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

Bob Ney

#34. Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.

Marjorie M. Liu

#35. 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

#36. Our problem wasn't that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Evan Williams

#37. All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

C.S. Lewis

#38. People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent ... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

Jonathan Gottschall

#39. There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Jean Shepherd

#40. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Bertrand Russell

#41. I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.

Clyde Edgerton

#42. Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

Gautama Buddha

#43. The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

Frederick Lenz

#44. The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

John Madden

#45. For Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

Walter Isaacson

#46. I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think that models should be actors.

Stephanie Seymour

#47. Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

Allison Brennan

#48. Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.

Dominique Browning

#49. People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

Rani Mukerji

#50. In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

Mario Draghi

#51. He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.

Lisa Unger

#52. Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Dennis Gabor

#53. We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

John Locke

#54. The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

Geena Davis

#55. America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

James Bovard

#56. The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

Ben Shapiro

#57. I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods ... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.

Hans Rosling

#58. There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Maureen O'Hara

#59. While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States. Everything that I have done and seen has convinced me that America remains the indispensable nation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#60. I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

Amanda Peet

#61. When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

Gene Veith

#62. 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

#63. More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

Scott Walker

#64. I think you will leave a lasting imprint on Ansel's heart. You spared her life, and returned her father's sword. And maybe when she makes her next move to reclaim her title, she will remember the assassin from the North and the kindness you showed her, and try to leave fewer bodies in her wake.

Sarah J. Maas

#65. When we want to engage, believe me, we can. And not only will we then make fewer mistakes of perception, but we will become the types of focused, observant people that we may have thought we were incapable of becoming

Anonymous

#66. When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

Eric Davis

#67. The most visible form of Jesus's not-of-this-world kingdom is the radical, head-turning love of one's enemies, even (or especially) when we are suffering at their hands. Peter mentions this cruciform enemy-love no fewer than ten times in five chapters, making it the artery of the letter.

Preston Sprinkle

#68. Would you have wished more, or fewer, anarchists around in the Thousand Year Reich or any of the other fantasies of hierarchy?

Christopher Hitchens

#69. Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Bertrand Russell

#70. Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Derek Bok

#71. I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

John Sayles

#72. she could begin again and not become so entangled in this long, horrible war, would she watch from the sidelines as a spectator this time? Would she choose differently, take fewer risks? Caroline

Austin, Lynn

#73. That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.

Aldous Huxley

#74. Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Zig Ziglar

#75. Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Dudley Warner

#76. The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; ... the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression.

James Madison

#77. original content Tweets with smiley faces receive 46 percent fewer retweets and 36 percent fewer favorites than content without the emoticons.

Chris Kerns

#78. Do you know what that means?" "They have three fewer ships?" Parks deadpanned. "Stop being an asshole, captain, I'm serious.

Todd Shryock

#79. Most people have some idea that they're leaving traces of themselves whenever they go online, but very few realize how much. Even fewer people know how much all these digital footprints can tell others about their lives.

Oisin McGann

#80. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

John Green

#81. In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Nikki Grimes

#82. I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way. As president, that is exactly what I'll do.

Chris Christie

#83. Talented people often don't need experience. They rely on ability and sound judgement to deliver results. The very definition of talent is the ability to do things that others can't do or to do things using fewer resources or less time than others might need to achieve the same result.

Mark James Walsh

#84. You'll get a lot of 'no' RSVPs to your next party," I said, brushing the smoldering bits from my costume. His smile only widened. "This isn't the first party I've thrown where fewer guests left than arrived.

Jeaniene Frost

#85. Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

John Maeda

#86. We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

Hillary Clinton

#87. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. I

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#88. I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

Floyd Abrams

#89. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

Don Herold

#90. Be silent now. Say fewer and fewer praise poems. Let yourself become living poetry.

Rumi

#91. We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Frank Pierson

#92. Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Bobby Scott

#93. Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Sophocles

#94. There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

Witold Rybczynski

#95. We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Jeremy Rifkin

#96. If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Robert Breault

#97. Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#98. Here, in this universe, what differentiated science from witchcraft was that scientists had fewer resources and couldn't magically manipulate the natural world by will alone.

Josephine Angelini

#99. Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.

Jean Chatzky

#100. Ought a woman to disclose her frailties earlier than the wedding day? Few husbands, I assure you, make the discovery in such good season, and still fewer complain that these trifles are concealed too long. Well, what a strange man you are! Poh! you are joking.

Nathaniel Hawthorne