Few Quotes - page 3

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. (Albert Einstein)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. View quote
Sun Tzu
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. View quote
Sun Tzu
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. View quote
George Jean Nathan
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. View quote
John Updike
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. View quote
John Updike
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. View quote
John Updike
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. View quote
Charles de Lint
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. View quote
Harry S. Truman
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. (James Thurber)
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. View quote
William Hazlitt
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. View quote
William Hazlitt
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. View quote
Truman Capote
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament! View quote
Vladimir Lenin
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. View quote
Freeman Dyson
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. (Thornton Wilder)
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. View quote
George F. Kennan
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. View quote
Alexander Pope
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. View quote
Margaret Mead