Fewer Quotes

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

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 them forever.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?