How Few Quotes

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such… — Kate Chopin
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who… — Benedict Joseph Labre
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. — Henry David Thoreau
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent… — Robert E. Lee
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing… — Paul Brunton
If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady! — James Merrick
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. — Seneca the Younger
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Matthew Rabin
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success. — Leo Baekeland
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
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find… — Amy Lowell
At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person â€” all my old friends are gone... & my heart… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but… — Khalid ibn al-Walid
The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million… — Hilary Swank
When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder… — Mark Lawrence
Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up. — Mark Suster
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are… — David Oyelowo

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