All Quotes

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
‐‐ John Masefield

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.
‐‐ Matthew Lesko

There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.
‐‐ Rose George

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
‐‐ Charles de Lint

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
‐‐ Mary Stewart

There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
‐‐ David Lee

There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
‐‐ James M. Barrie

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
‐‐ Agnes Repplier

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.
‐‐ Daryn Kagan

There are few people who exemplify the ideals of opportunity, entrepreneurship and commitment to the collective good than the great New Yorker and the face of the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
‐‐ Sandra Bernhard

There are few places in my life that I've found more ruggedly beautiful than the Highlands of Scotland. The place is magical - it's so far north, so remote, that sometimes it feels like you've left this world and gone to another.
‐‐ Julia London

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
‐‐ Regina Brett

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
‐‐ Thomas Clarkson

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.
‐‐ Henry Markram

There are few secrets in football. So execute.
‐‐ Hank Stram

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.
‐‐ Solomon Northup

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
‐‐ Alexander Chase

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

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
‐‐ John Irving

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
‐‐ Mary Catherine Bateson

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
‐‐ Ralph Ellison

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

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

There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.
‐‐ Craig Brown

There are few things that have filled me with such breathless awe as flying in the black of night across oceans and continents and looking out my cockpit window upon the infinite glory of millions of stars.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
‐‐ Greg LeMond

There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

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

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson