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Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it. — Keith Rabois

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. — Khaled Hosseini

Very few plays would work well with an altar as a fixed centerpiece. — Kurt Vonnegut

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women. — Frederick Lenz

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets. — Yuval Noah Harari

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. — Daniel Keyes

Very few problems cannot be solved by either coffee, wine or chocolate. — Evelynn Crowe

You know, there are very few people I could tell that to and have them laugh instead of calling the cops. Or mental health. — Cherise Sinclair

In 1934 there were very few Cubans in Miami. — Desi Arnaz

When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999. — Jamie Bamber

The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it. — Bob Hope

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself. — Andrew Sullivan

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. — Antonio Porchia

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful. — Babyface

This isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know? — Sarah Dessen

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else. — Kevin Spacey

Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization. — Steven Magee

The weather plays a very big role. I have run very few races in the raining and the cold. — David Rudisha

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end. — Jack Dempsey

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

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends. — John C. Reilly

We are so very rich if we know just a few people in a way in which we know no others. — Catherine Bramwell-Booth

She had found there were very few genuinely dull people; the trick was to ask them the right questions. — Kate Morton

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier. — Brad Pitt

I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams. — David Rabe

I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business. — Jerry Della Femina

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people. — Karen Armstrong

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. — Elizabeth Warren

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance. — Evangeline Lilly

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines. — Ludwig Von Mises

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary. — Erin McKean

Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them. — Gregory Maguire

If people could hear our thoughts, very few of us would escape from being locked away as mad men. — Jacinto Benavente

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle. — Nikos Kazantzakis

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you. — Martin Mull

I just thought, there are very few stories involving me, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jesus. — Jon Stewart

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week. — Mike Nichols

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope

Very few are aware of the highest. Then comes that which they know and love, — Lao-Tzu

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict. — Clark Gregg

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique. — Robertson Davies

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer. — Len Wein

I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them. — Patrick Grant

rockabilly, solos, which used very few notes, mainly double stops (that is two notes at once) and were primarily — Damien Peters

There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington. — Jeff Lindsay

A few of the savage creatures (rabids) I could deal with, but taking on this many ventured very close to suicide. Once was enough, thanks — Julie Kagawa

A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited. — Judith Martin

I concentrated on a lot of things, so very few people saw me as an education governor, an infrastructure governor. — Mario Cuomo

Children have neither past nor future;
they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. — Amish Tripathi

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. — Emily Dickinson

There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played. — Taylor Hanson

You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships. — James Hunter

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker

We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy. — Sebastian Coe

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts. — David Frum

There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do. — Ron Shock

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw. — Richard Masur

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield

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

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. — H.P. Lovecraft

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting. — Bobby Darin

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued. — Andrew Stanton

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man — Rajneesh

There's very few shows that truly reflect specific ethnic experiences, and when they come and come right, they're a hit. — Aeriel Miranda

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail. — Kathleen Tessaro

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater. — Candace Bushnell

Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it — Bronnie Ware

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. — Cesare Pavese

There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics. — Anthony James Leggett

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies. — Willem Dafoe

Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much. — Ashleigh Brilliant

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish. — T. S. Eliot

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

There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls. — Miriam Makeba

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics. — Jason Alexander

Very few people have no opinions about cats. — Barbara Holland

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative. — John Keats

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it. — Henry David Thoreau

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one. — Archie Moore

I have a hundred million fans, Angela, but I have very few friends. — Raynetta Manees

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes. — Warren Buffett

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. — Osbert Lancaster

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all. — Billy Bragg

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few. — Theognis Of Megara

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. — James Robertson

Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia. — N.K. Jemisin

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few. — Richard Flanagan