Few Things Quotes
403 quotes by 343 authors
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And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible…
— Thomas Hobbes
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then…
— Francis Bacon
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The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is…
— Peter Drucker
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The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Very few things in life matter.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.
— Boyd K. Packer
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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We…
— Marie Dressler
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to…
— Ezra Pound
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There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.
— Katherine Paterson
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A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
— Walter Scott
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Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.
— Jane Bowles
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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
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
— Horace Kephart
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I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big…
— Brad Paisley
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. ... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your…
— Conan O'Brien
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I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked…
— Dominic Monaghan
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I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.
— Evangeline Lilly
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I…
— Irene Dunne
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While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Satorum Administration. I will ban all…
— Rick Santorum
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