Fewer Quotes

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.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

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

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

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

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

There are a lot of young great athletes out there; they're much better athletes than what we were. They're bigger, faster, stronger, unfortunately, there're fewer places to go.

During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns.

Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

The by-product of fewer technical support issues is also an increase in customer satisfaction, which can be reflected in reduced subscriber churn.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

When nothing hampers action, the soul has fewer reasons for action.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.