Fewer Quotes
547 Fewer quotes by 489 unique authors
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more…
— Dalai Lama
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I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.
— Cecil Castellucci
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Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to…
— Ally Carter
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My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for…
— Jodi Picoult
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Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer…
— Justin Cronin
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The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be…
— Daniel Handler
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Insane means fewer cameras!
— Ally Carter
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
— Barack Obama
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Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.
— Libba Bray
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I don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience…
— Douglas Coupland
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If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more…
— Sherwood Smith
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It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed…
— Graham Greene
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The world in many ways would be a much calmer and gentler place if women ruled. There would have been fewer children sacrificed to the…
— William P. Young
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the…
— Julian Barnes
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To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the…
— Albert Camus
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There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something…
— Erin Morgenstern
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It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when…
— Mercedes Lackey
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Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have…
— Mary E. Pearson
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Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are…
— Stephen Fry
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for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it’s better, it’s simpler,…
— Walter Isaacson
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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
— Benjamin Carson
Who Wrote These Fewer Quotes
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