Top 170 Few Quotes

I’m addicted to my iPhone and get a game for it every few days.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone… and not just for a few.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born – but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

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.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Many are called but few get up.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They’re just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It’s kind of untouched, it’s not Americanized.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

Very few of us are what we seem.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

It’s funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The last few years I’ve been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn’t that interesting to me. Now that I’m directing, it’s all new again.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Even the biggest flops have been liked by a few select people.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I’ve had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

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 a paradise in a few years.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I’ve been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

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.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: ‘Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.’ Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding – but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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.

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.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I’ve starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more – it’s really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.