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• On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Long

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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 Cagney

  Song, Men, Song And Dance

  James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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• David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

  Tom Brokaw

  Country, Icons, Tragedy

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• Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Sweet, Moving, Writing

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Someone spoke to me last night,
  told me the truth. Just a few words,
  but I recognized it.
  I knew I should make myself get up,
  write it down, but it was late,
  and I was exhausted from working
  all day in the garden, moving rocks.

  Dorianne Laux

  Moving, Writing, Night

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Running

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL

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• We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."

  James Keller

  Mom, Time, Prayer

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• I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. “I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn’t say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can’t get those years back. But maybe if I hadn’t been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra… stress that did all this. Maybe it was me!

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stress, Mean, Years

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• It sounded weird to hear you talk so much; normally you only said a few words at a time. I'd never imagined that you'd have a story, too. Until that moment, you were just the kidnapper. You didn't have reasons for anything. You were stupid and evil and mentally ill. That was all. When you started talking, you started changing.

  Lucy Christopher

  Stupid, Talking, Evil

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.

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• Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Valentine, Saws

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• What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Inquiry, Dignity

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.210, Vintage

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• I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Vocabulary, Might

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• He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.

  Sylvia Day

  Cutting, Looks, Desperate

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.153, Penguin

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• It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

  Tom Perrotta

  People, Silence, Littles

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• 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

  Bye, Differences, Deeds

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• Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Passionate, Desperate

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• To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Religious, Men, Church

  Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.423, Northwestern University Press

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• When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, "Boys, Christmas is about Jesus." I thought about what he said, and I began asking the Christmas questions. I've been asking them ever since. I love the answers I've found.

  Max Lucado

  Brother, Jesus, Dad

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mind, Trying, Tasks

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a few words, Confucius teaches us about patience, perseverance, discipline, and hard work. But if you probe further, you will see more layers. Confucius' philosophies have significantly influenced spiritual and social thought. His views bear insight and depth of wisdom. You can apply his teachings in every sphere of life. Confucius' profound teachings are based on humanism.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Philosophy

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• Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Sweat, After Hours

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Climate, Might

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.

  Jack Johnson

  Couple, Fall, Writing

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• In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Ocean, Night

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