Few Words Quotes - Page 2

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

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.

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.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.

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.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am a trannycatcher! Just kidding!

To be of few words is natural.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

She knew few words and believed in none.

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.

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.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.