Far To Go Quotes

#1. So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

Robert Bausch

#2. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. People are mystery as far you go deeper as more mystery you can find. New generation, new tricks, new misteries, new problems... people are hard to be understand as deeper you go as more missunderstand the stuff.

Deyth Banger

#4. It's not like I didn't think I had any demons. I did, but I could name them- and even provide an address and telephone number for each. As far as I was concerned, those demons could go to therapy instead of me.

Lisa Lutz

#5. She said, Hiking is the same thing as walking, only hotter and twice as far as you want to go. But usually, you're glad you went.

Anita Diamant

#6. Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. The problem with longstanding friends
they felt utterly free to go too far and to enjoy every step they took over the line.

Maya Rodale

#8. His smile was chillingly predatory, carnal and possessive. Do you really think I brought you this far to be letting you go, Chloe-lass?

Karen Marie Moning

#9. I'm not sure how far he's willing to go, but I'll go as far as he's willing to take me.

Ashley Wilcox

#10. The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?

Hanif Kureishi

#11. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

Sylvia Plath

#12. I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

Ving Rhames

#13. Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Marianne Williamson

#14. Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Sophocles

#15. Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Rick Warren

#16. Don't be afraid," she said, coldly, " as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don't be afraid, John.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Colin Wilson

#18. We must settle this question now
whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. I would not go so far as to say that we are completely changing our outlook.

Marek Belka

#20. The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Seamus Heaney

#21. Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider ... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.

Jane Mersky Leder

#22. Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the entire colon. I say, don't vie CBS an idea for another reality show.

Bill Maher

#23. It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things- ... I must say I feel far away in another world here- ... always we go to a new place ... the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#24. A good lawyer is part con man, part priest
promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?

Paul Levine

#25. No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best until its other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family

Jim Morrison

#26. Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Ralph Barton Perry

#27. Think of how far you've come," Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go

Thrity Umrigar

#28. Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Robert Kennedy

#29. I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

Jeff Ross

#30. When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

Robert Hunter

#31. Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

Joel Gretsch

#32. First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to go forward, I'm excited to leap into the void, I'm excited about tomorrow, the unknown, excited to see what else He has for me.

Columbus Short

#33. Why?
Why indeed. It was a sticky, impossible question and I didn't know how to answer it. How far back did I have to go to find the place where our roads diverged? How could I explain that sometimes a thousand little things added up to something so big it had the power to crush a relationship.

Glenn Beck

#34. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle

Agatha Christie

#35. Alric looked up at the thief with a scowl. "I just want to say for the record that as far as royal protectors go, you're not very good."
"It's my first day," Royce replied dryly.
"And already I'm trapped in a timeless prison. I shudder to think what might have happened if you had a whole week.

Michael J. Sullivan

#36. The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Henry David Thoreau

#37. The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Bret Anthony Johnston

#38. Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

Naya Rivera

#39. I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.

Brandy Norwood

#40. Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#41. NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.

Trita Parsi

#42. I wanted to do it for you," he said. "I wanted to show you how much I would do,
how far I would go. How hard I would work.

Robyn Carr

#43. I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

Tori Amos

#44. I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.

Bertrand Russell

#45. Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.

Christine Warren

#46. I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

Natasha Trethewey

#47. The only way out is to go so far in ...

Tori Amos

#48. Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

Francis Chan

#49. My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Elon Musk

#50. We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.

Alan Cohen

#51. How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?

W.G. Sebald

#52. As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit.

Jonathan Hickman

#53. If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.

Jodi Picoult

#54. You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

Omari Hardwick

#55. His lack of remorse and boundaries should have been a red flag to me, but it sort of made me want to see how far I would let myself go with him.

Monica Alexander

#56. We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#57. No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.

Graeme Smith

#58. I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

Libba Bray

#59. You drive me out of my mind. You make me so fucking crazy I can't think straight. Did you even notice? Every male out there, along with several of the women, were undressing you with their eyes - and they didn't have far to go. You can't go out in public like this. I mean, Niniane. What. The. Hell.

Thea Harrison

#60. At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go where the gods will.

Bernard Cornwell

#61. If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#62. I'm trying to go viral, but so far I'm just a sniffle

J.L. Madore

#63. I would go so far as to say that it may even have caused him to think the more highly of them because their unbelief grew from a far more honest view of the wretchedness of things than the belief of the devout who see only what they choose to see and turn a blind eye on the rest.

Frederick Buechner

#64. I'm not really one to go out in public in dresses too often. I definitely mix it up between masculine and feminine all the time, but wearing a dress goes a little bit too far.

Johnny Weir

#65. Don't measure how far still you've got to go, but how far you've already gone to get to the point where you are now.

Frederick Espiritu

#66. As a reminder to himself that at forty-three you don't make plans to dabble in different lives. At forty-three, what you are, what you know, is about as far as you're going to go in this life;

Richard Price

#67. Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Ivan Turgenev

#68. As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.

Jordin Sparks

#69. How far would you go for someone you love ? I heard this story, about this woman, who actually lifted a car off of her baby. 'Course I would have said, Dude! Back up. But, wasn't my kid. When I was born, if I'd have known all the stuff my dad was going to do for me, I'd have crawled right back in.

Christopher Titus

#70. In terms of our elected officials, I think we need to ask...: How far should we go with our need to know before we completely veer off into the personal and the private and leave behind any chance of having a legitimate debate or discussion or discourse about the issues at hand?

John Lewis

#71. Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Richard Mitchell

#72. Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn't.

Neal Shusterman

#73. The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed ...

William Paterson

#74. He said he needed to unwind. He was furious we all let you go so far. That boy would stop you so much as breaking a nail if he could.

Joss Stirling

#75. But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Marco Rubio

#76. Some of the most rewarding scientific pursuits begin with the discovery of a paradox. Nature does not go out of its way to befuddle us, and if some phenomenon seems to make no sense no matter how we look at it, we are probably in ignorance of deep and far-ranging principles.

Steven Pinker

#77. Some believers, as though from a drinking bout, go so far as to oppose themselves and alter the original text of the gospel three or four or several times over, and change its character to enable them to deny difficulties in the face of criticism. (Against Celsus 2, 27)

Bart D. Ehrman

#78. I never wanted to go to college in the state of Washington because I was so embarrassed and ashamed of my family life. I wanted to run. That's what always what I do, I run. I run as far away as I can.

Hope Solo

#79. People waste far too much of their lives being miserable. If you love someone, if you truly love them - tell them, show them. Never let go completely. Never abandon hope. Because at the end of the day, that's all the future really is to anyone. We live in hope.

Avie Bennett

#80. The arm of the Federal government is long, but it is far too short to protect the rights of individuals in the interior of distant States. They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, spite of all the laws the Federal government can put upon the national statute-book.

Frederick Douglass

#81. I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn't mean I meant to go pop. It's just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises.

Nayvadius Cash

#82. Meg, you have to go. I can't.

R.J. Harlick

#83. Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Malin Akerman

#84. I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

Liane Balaban

#85. I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

Paul Tibbets

#86. As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.

Richard Matheson

#87. Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

Gene Autry

#88. You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.
Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#89. It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

Will Chase

#90. You don't have to go that far," Dr. Roberts said. "You should be able to walk normally. Just no more jumping from balconies for a while."
"How about ever?" Gabriel asked. "Let's go with that. Never ever jump off the school balcony again. Or any balcony. Stay away from balconies.

C.L.Stone

#91. Well, I think the U.S. has been careful not to go too far in attacking Iran's allies, in particular in attacking Hezbollah forces in Syria, which have been propping up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

David Ignatius

#92. Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

Katharine Hepburn

#93. And I'll be around, Rose. I'll be there all the time. When you're working I'll ring you up from school and remind you to take your medication. I won't go away for weeks and months at a time. You'll know where I am and it will never be far away.

Linda Gillard

#94. The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#95. We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament

Edward Heath

#96. The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Donald Knuth

#97. You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

Nicole Krauss

#98. We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

Madeleine Sophie Barat

#99. This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Amelia Barr

#100. When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

Robert A. Heinlein