All Quotes

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
‐‐ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.
‐‐ Donald Cram

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.
‐‐ Sanjay Kumar

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
‐‐ Mamata Banerjee

Few targets of ridicule are as easy to hit as owners and handlers of competitive show dogs.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

Few there are that will endure a true friend.
‐‐ Henry George Bohn

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
‐‐ Bernard Williams

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

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
‐‐ Mark Twain

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
‐‐ J. Maarten Troost

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
‐‐ Mark Kennedy

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
‐‐ Doug Larson

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
‐‐ Charles Colson

Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.
‐‐ Melody Beattie

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.
‐‐ Melody Beattie

Few things focus the mind like fear.
‐‐ Catherine Tate

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
‐‐ Richard M. DeVos

Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they're better than you because they don't think that they're better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
‐‐ Kat Edmonson

Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
‐‐ David Harsanyi

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
‐‐ Derrick Bell

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
‐‐ Alan Ayckbourn

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
‐‐ Terry McMillan

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.
‐‐ Edmund White

Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
‐‐ Christina Romer

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
‐‐ Derek Bok

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

'Fiancee' is a very fun word to say, because I never thought I would have a fiancee or be a fiancee. Sometimes when I would introduce myself and say, 'This is my girlfriend Melanie,' it wasn't always clear what I meant. Now I get to say, 'This is my fiancee Melanie.'
‐‐ Kirsten Vangsness

Fiat has assembly plants in Brazil and Argentina.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.
‐‐ Reed Hastings

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
‐‐ Anne Michaels

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
‐‐ Chad Harbach

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
‐‐ Chris Abani

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo