Best Few Words Quotes
144 Few Words quotes by 132 unique authors
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My father was a man of few words.
— Ken Venturi
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Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.
— Scott Snyder
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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
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
— Eckhart Tolle
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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
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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
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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
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Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
— Roger Ebert
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
— Robert Breault
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