Fewer Quotes

547 Fewer quotes by 489 unique authors

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all… — Robert Winston
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running… — Kristin Armstrong
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have… — Rachel Zoe
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. — Helen Fisher
I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and… — Evgeny Morozov
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more… — Jane Austen
Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured — Thomas Paine
Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care — Leonard Cohen
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up — Jodi Picoult
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work… — Noel Coward
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,… — Nick Hornby
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. — Bertrand Russell
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. — Charles Baudelaire
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still. — Milorad PaviÄ‡
People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,… — P.J. O'Rourke
I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm… — Temple Grandin
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know… — Octavio Paz
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some… — A. J. Jacobs
We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since,… — Aldo Leopold
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with… — John Stuart Mill
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson
My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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