Several Quotes

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. (Aldous Huxley)
There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener. View quote
Karel Čapek
Whilst traveling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days. View quote
W. C. Fields
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. View quote
William James
A good book should leave you.... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. View quote
William Styron
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. View quote
W. C. Fields
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. View quote
Mark Twain
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. View quote
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. (Sania Mirza)
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. View quote
Norman Borlaug
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. View quote
Gary Becker
The interior of the earth is extremely hot - several million degrees. View quote
Al Gore
When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together. View quote
Joseph Addison
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. View quote
David Letterman
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth. View quote
Jules Verne
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. View quote
Václav Havel
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. (Kenneth Clark)
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. View quote
Thomas More
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. View quote
Vitruvius
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign Jackie Collins and they go away quite content. View quote
Robertson Davies