Few Quotes

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.

I really only have a few friends.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.