Quotes of: Few-things Keyword

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

Seth MacFarlane

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

Dada Vaswani

A few people of integrity can go a long way.

Bill Kauth

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

Ha-Joon Chang

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Dave Grohl

El Indio: It's easy enough to steal. The trouble is in keeping the loot.

For a Few Dollars More

Kaffee: Is the colonel's underwear a matter of national security?

A Few Good Men

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Robert Burton

I wished the kiss could have gone on forever. Breaking the embrace, he ran a few fingers through my hair and down my cheek. He stepped back toward the door. "I'll see you later, Roza" "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, ...

Frostbite

Ellis,” he said. “You’re watchin’ a miracle right under your nose.” He gave a few of the seeds to Ellis and let him drop them into the hole he had already made. “In each of them little things, God put life. Now you take care with it, and ...

Good Ground

Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my s...

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you. These things can define you or you can define yourself through them. I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life. It t...

Again

Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved one. They moved through the world differently than other people. When they looked at you, you had the feeling that they were really ...

Heartsick

I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming a man to realize how lucky I’d been. It took a few hard knocks in life to ma...

The Rainy Season

There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong ...

Sex and the City

In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tree a crook and climbs down a saint. Paul sets out a h...

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. I’d seen a few things before our colony was built and most of the inhabitants lef...

Lauren Hammond

There are many things I don’t know, but quite a few I do. I know you can’t be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes ...

Megan Hart

One enemy is too many; 100 friends are far too few.

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