quotes about Few Words
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
-- Abigail Adams -
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
-- Brigham Young -
With few words, one can speak the truth.
-- Bryan AdamsSource : Song: Native Son
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.
-- David Whyte -
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
-- Ellen Goodman -
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We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
-- Eric Hoffer -
... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.
-- Frances Hesselbein -
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
-- Francois Fenelon -
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
-- George Horace Lorimer -
I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
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Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
-- James CagneySource : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”
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Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
-- Jamey Johnson -
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
-- Jean Rostand -
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
-- Marisha Pessl -
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
-- Moses ibn Ezra -
To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.
-- Nagisa Oshima -
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I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
-- Patricia Moyes -
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
My old man is a man of few words.
-- Scott EastwoodSource : Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life.
-- Scott Snyder -
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A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.
-- Sol SteinSource : Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.113, St. Martin's Press
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You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.
-- Sylvia Day -
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
-- Tim Ferriss -
On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.
-- Wallace Stevens -
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A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.
-- Carolyn Warner -
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
-- Daido Moriyama -
I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.
-- Joanna Lohman -
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
-- Frank Muir -
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For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.
-- Winston Graham -
... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like or are poems.
-- Lipman Bers