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144 Few Words quotes by 132 unique authors

My father was a man of few words. — Ken Venturi
Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life. — Scott Snyder
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and… — Charles Simmons
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. — R. Buckminster Fuller
We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a… — James Keller
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for… — Diodorus Siculus
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley
A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films… — Ismail Merchant
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a… — Unknown Author
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but… — Frederick Douglass
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would… — David Ebershoff
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words. — Eckhart Tolle
The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way… — Frederick Lenz
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth… — Samuel Johnson
And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when… — Epictetus
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more. — Roger Ebert
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach. — Adam Baldwin
Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which… — Murong Xuecun
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate… — Nagisa Oshima
My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution… — Camille
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she… — Albert Howard
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something… — Eric Hoffer
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. — Robert Breault

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