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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right. — Barry S. Strauss

I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul. — Mark O'Donnell

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones. — Guillaume Musso

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still. — Milorad Pavic

Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few. — Kim Newman

The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing. — Elia Kazan

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism. — Gijs De Vries

Only a few of the women sport pubic hair. He's never understood what that's about. Some of the men are bare, too. O tempora, o mores. — Kelly Link

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. — H.L. Mencken

Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time. — Louis Riel

No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts. — Meljean Brook

I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones. — Dick Van Patten

You discover that a man who has gone even a week on bread and margarine is not a man any longer, only a belly with a few accessory organs. — George Orwell

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years. — Beck

In a matter of only a few seconds, in fact, her eyes appeared to jettison everything that was dark and heavy and to glow with fan-club appreciation. — J.D. Salinger

Nora Ephron's great line that overtipping only costs a few dollars more. — John Waters

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching. — A-Trak

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. — River Phoenix

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. — Victor Blanchard Scheffer

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Martinis are glamorous but also so simple because they only have a few ingredients, and you can really taste the vodka. — Stephanie Sigman

Be kind to all and trust all. If you do so, only a few will break your trust. — Debasish Mridha

Her heart fluttered. It had only been a few hours, but it felt like a lifetime since she saw him last. She seriously felt addicted to that boy. — Julia Crane

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none. — William Graham Sumner

It took 139 years to find her and only a few precious days to lose her, so if leaving was the right thing to do, shouldn't it be easier than this? — Georgia Cates

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you. — Laura Ruby

True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young. — N.K. Jemisin

I have an amino acid missing that you can only get from certain kinds of eggs. So, I've been eating a few eggs. — Bryce Dallas Howard

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few. — Christopher Lee

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders. — P. J. O'Rourke

Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job where Asian boobs and ass ran free. — Teresa Lo

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale

I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes. — Peter Bradley Adams

When you have only know someone for a few hours it is difficult to now what they would like to hear. — Lemony Snicket

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena. — Beth Moore

Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith — Michael Scofield

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something. — Hans Zimmer

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that. — Karl Lagerfeld

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred. — Gore Vidal

Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out? — Andy Sawford

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime. — Robert McKee

Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait - for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality - so you don't overwhelm. — Kiersten White

A tureen of tragedy was best allotted by the spoonful. Only a few patients demanded the whole at once; most needed time to digest. — Paul Kalanithi

This sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really. — James Rollins

Sometimes you don't need everyone on your side, you only need a few. — Karina Halle

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few. — Bell Hooks

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits. — Nicolas Sarkozy

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgard Varese

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort. — Frederick The Great

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. — Kiki Dimoula

The secret in riding is to do only a few things but to do them right — Nuno Oliveira

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots. — Willie Stargell

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale. — Channing Tatum

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss. — Seanan McGuire

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life. — Samantha Bee

The ability to share the Gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. — Clayton Christensen

In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi — Barbara L. Jordan

I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seconds done in a week. — Caroll Spinney

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ... — Ann Scott

Some books should be tasted,
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly — Cornelia Funke

Consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates. — Carl Jung

Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets. — Fred DeLuca

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people. — Liam Neeson

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression. — Casey Stengel

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. — Carl Sandburg

everyone accept you for what you are today, only a few who accept you completely. — El

There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts. — Susan Polis Schutz

Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. — Warren Buffett

A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level — Saji Ijiyemi

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. — John Legend

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times. — Georges St-Pierre

A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game. — Reuben Fine

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. — Jostein Gaarder

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. — Carl Jung

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. — Jacky Ickx

He shouted something in Jason's ear, but Jason could only make out a few words: THING ... DOWN ... STOP IT! — Rick Riordan

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero, — Mo Yan

There are only a few things that are more entertaining than watching a cat trying to run across a freshly waxed wood floor after a ball. — David C. Holley

There was a fire inside him that only a few people could see. She could see it though, it was like the fire inside her. — L.J.Smith

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth, — Wendell Berry

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few. — Marco Rubio

Low gravity Monopoly is better than the Monopoly you play round the kitchen table, in that it only lasts a few minutes. — Frank Cottrell Boyce

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks. — Mark Ruffalo

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. — Christopher Paolini

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. — Warren Buffett

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz

I definitely care. I'm very competitive, but I am satisfied with my delivery and that I only missed with a few pitches. — CC Sabathia

I really only have a few friends. — Milla Jovovich

It takes only a few seconds to acknowledge a smile full of love, and yet those few seconds can be a gateway into an eternity full of love. — Franco Santoro

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books. — Bobby Fischer

Now the tea began to do its work- as it always did- and the world that only a few minutes previously had seemed so bleak started to seem less so. — Alexander McCall Smith

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about. — Anton Chekhov

Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted. — Edna O'Brien

Each year, the United States issues about 70,000 patents, only a few of which ultimately reach the stage of commercial production. — Jared Diamond

For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards. — John Mole