#few

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#best #boston #especially #even #few

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that. ↗

— Tom Araya

#book #could #few #figure #had

I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean? ↗

— Roone Arledge

#any #before #business #costs #does

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#always #bernard #few #had #hall

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private. ↗

— Mary Astell

#few #good #lasting #many #preferable

I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#few #gone #haven #i #intend

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. ↗

— Alan Ayckbourn

#except #few #few women #large #large sums

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. ↗

— Richard Bach

#colors #diamonds #different #different colors #few

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. ↗

— Russell Baker

#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day