Fewer Quotes - Page 25

• A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

  Jonas Salk

  People, Deficit, Elders

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• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

  John Sununu

  Country, Educational, America

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• Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Impact, Water

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• I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Use, Objects

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.263

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• Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Details Of Life, Practice

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.189, e-artnow

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• Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, Circles

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mean, Eye, Hunting

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.

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• More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Growth, Produce

  "Cameron postpones big speech on Europe" by Nicholas Watt, Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2013.

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• So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

  Nia Long

  Mistake, Thinking, Natural

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• In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Math, Doors

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• I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

  James Caan

  Cowboy, Cells, People

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

  Jerry Brown

  Jobs, Stupid, Cutting

  "The Revolt Against Liberal Orthodoxy" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 11, 2010.

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• My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you’ve said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Son, Wrath

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reflection, Roots, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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• Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

  Chris Christie

  Squares, Government, America

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• I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Wish, Lawyer

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Insane means fewer cameras!

  Ally Carter

  Mean, Insane, Cameras

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

  David Suzuki

  Impact, Addiction, Environmental

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• Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Baby, Sweet

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• "Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know."

  Ally Carter

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

  "Only the Good Spy Young". Book by Ally Carter, 2010.

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• I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Trying, I Smile, Muscles

  Cecil Castellucci (2006). “Boy Proof”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, People, Chance

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• Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Grandma, Dark

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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