Few Quotes

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars,' but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.