Top 100 As Far As Quotes
#1. As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.
Lisa Unger
#2. The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
Elizabeth Janeway
#3. It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
Thomas Paine
#4. I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.
James Crumley
#5. I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.
Suzanne Palmieri
#6. I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse. I like guys with scruffy beards and leather jackets, but I also like a clean-cut 'GQ'-type guy, so my tastes are very ranged among somebody who laughs at my dumb jokes, too. I have plenty of them.
Sasha Grey
#7. I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#8. In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
Andy Roddick
#9. As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don't hurt others.
Omar Khayyam
#10. As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
Alessandro Nivola
#11. As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.
Jonathan Aitken
#12. In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.
Allan Nairn
#13. As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.
Bridget Kelly
#14. The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.
Clinton Kelly
#15. I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there ... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.
Rhys Darby
#16. As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
Tom Peters
#17. As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
Billie Jean King
#18. I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
Tracy Chapman
#19. As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year.
Norman Lamm
#20. I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.
Johnny Weir
#21. The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#22. Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
Isaac Watts
#23. As far as size goes, to gain access to the complex we're going to cross the 623 foot moat, using the stone causeway. Once across we simply need to search the 203 acres of land and temple for any sign of what we may be looking for.
Vincent Pauletti
#24. When the polar ice advanced as far as Nottingham, my school was closed and I was evacuated to Mars.
Sophia McDougall
#25. Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX
#26. As far as I can determine, the universe is made of ninety-five percent contradiction. And I'm not certain about the last five percent.
A.E. Marling
#27. As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
Bobby Sherman
#28. A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.
Marty Rubin
#29. As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
John Cage
#30. There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.
Ari Graynor
#31. The inspection once completed it is usual to put everything carefully back in place as far as possible. It is enjoined by a certain ethics not to do unto others what coming from them might give offence.
Samuel Beckett
#32. he'd learned the secret of a richer, more powerful adult rage. "It isn't how it was! It never will be again! They changed the rules on us, so as far as I'm concerned all bets are off." He cinched his belt tight. "If They apologized, if They showed
Lev Grossman
#33. As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.
Peter Temple
#34. I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.
James Denton
#35. You know what would really help? If men started looking at it like a bank. The more you deposit the more you can withdraw later. Make a woman come as a rule, she's going to be more receptive to regular sex and much more open-minded about what's on the table as far as experimenting. Common sense.
Chloe Cole
#36. Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
Ethel Merman
#38. If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
Tracy Morgan
#39. And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
Willie Nelson
#40. As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
John F. Kennedy
#41. People often ask what the meaning of life is. What's the point in all of this? As far as I can tell, life is pretty much pointless without love.
D.T. Dyllin
#42. We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.
George Steinbrenner
#43. I enjoy hating musicians far more than I enjoy appreciating them. As far as I'm concerned, when someone becomes a rock star, he quits being a person.
Chuck Klosterman
#44. I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
Alan Kay
#45. As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
Mel Brooks
#46. The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
[The lame goes as far as your staggerer.]
George Herbert
#47. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
Maxine Waters
#48. As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
Bashar Al-Assad
#49. As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.
Colleen Hoover
#50. God changed Jacob's name to "Israel," which means "one who wrestles with God." As far as I know, Israel is still the only nation named after a wrestler.
Mark Russell
#51. I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.
John Benjamin Hickey
#52. As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
Adam DeVine
#53. As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
Rodney King
#54. When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.
Geraldine Brooks
#55. As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
BD Wong
#56. I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.
Guy Wilson
#57. As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.
Ernest Cline
#58. As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of. Answers may kill 'em dead enough, but it's questions that eats 'em alive.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#59. The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.
John McAfee
#60. I've never considered myself a femme fatale as I've never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.
Scarlett Johansson
#62. The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.
Peter T. King
#63. As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.
Joshua Bell
#64. As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#65. In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Denis Diderot
#66. My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.
Jhene Aiko
#67. In walking with God, a man will go just as far as he believes, and no further.
J.C. Ryle
#68. As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#69. As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs.
Russell Shorto
#71. As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people.
Steve Prefontaine
#72. And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.
Steve Forbert
#73. Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#74. Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.
Mike Vallely
#76. As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.
Gerhard Schroder
#77. We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America
as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
D.H. Lawrence
#78. As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.
Robert M. Parker Jr.
#79. And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
Maureen Dowd
#80. But then even if my atoms were a sin, so what? It was like Dad had said. As far as sins went, the sin of loving another human being made for a pretty damn excellent one.
Rose Christo
#81. I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.
Clay Matthews III
#82. I finally got up around noon, after having decided that, as far as monogamous relationships go, I could probably do worse than marrying my bed.
Robyn Schneider
#83. I'm now wearing suits on stage, so I've kinda stepped up my game as far as image. Which I have to admit is kind of a pain the butt, but it's fun. It gives you a certain amount of confidence to walk on stage and look nice, but I can't say that I'm totally buying into the whole image factor.
Christopher Cross
#84. As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.
John Frusciante
#85. Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see.
Tom Bowman
#86. The ( Catholic ) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco 's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler .
Christopher Hitchens
#87. I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.
John Krasinski
#88. May God have mercy on your soul! from Annabelle, as far as now the film reminds for Chucky.
Deyth Banger
#89. I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.
Debbie Reynolds
#90. Nim loved the ocean because it was always there, wherever she looked and as far as she could see, but it was too huge and powerful to understand and too dangerous to
Wendy Orr
#91. As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
Dan Hawkins
#92. Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
Malcolm X
#93. Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.
Sathya Sai Baba
#94. If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily.
Rajneesh
#95. I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might
Alison Weir
#96. As far as I can tell, the biggest side effect of a gluten sensitivity is that you actually become the number one symptom: a huge pain in the ass.
Celia Rivenbark
#97. I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.
Prince
#98. As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
Troy Brown
#99. So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.
Warren Jeffs
#100. My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
Bill Withers
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