Few Quotes - page 4

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. (T. E. Lawrence)
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. View quote
Margaret Mead
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. View quote
Norman Mailer
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. View quote
Joseph Addison
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. View quote
Joseph Addison
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. View quote
Bryan Ferry
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. (Anaïs Nin)
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth. View quote
Barbara Cartland
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. View quote
Orson Welles
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. View quote
Roald Dahl
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. View quote
Booker T. Washington
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred. View quote
George Burns
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