Quotes of: Few-people Keyword

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Swami Vivekananda

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Tacitus

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

Tim Curry

Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.

Tim Goossens

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thucydides

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Thomas Jefferson

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

Thomas Mars

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Terence Rattigan

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

Kofi Annan

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Kelly Hu

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Karl Marx

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Loretta Lynn

I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.

Lesley Manville

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Lope de Vega

Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.

Luciano Vincenzoni

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

Malik Bendjelloul

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

Maggie Grace

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Marie Louise

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Maureen Murphy

Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love; but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation.

M.F. Moonzajer