But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Lord Acton

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!
John Dillinger

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
Dag Hammarskjold

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Hannah Arendt

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
Syd Barrett

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Samuel Butler

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Samuel Butler

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Mignon McLaughlin

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Walter Bagehot

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
Nicholas Sparks