How Far Is Too Far Quotes

#1. Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

Margaret Atwood

#2. I'm not ever letting your sexy ass get too far away from me again."
"How far is too far?" I asked.
"It's all too far. I want you right here beside me ... forever.

Abbi Glines

#3. People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?

Mary Hart

#4. How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?

Bert Murray

#5. I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

Ron Rash

#6. True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Ralph W. Sockman

#7. If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away.

Curtis Stone

#9. The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.

Jean Cocteau

#10. Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#11. A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.

Bruce Timm

#12. We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

Pico Iyer

#13. It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

Zadie Smith

#14. Far too many times in life we throw ourselves
in ships without knowing how stable they
are, or how deep is the water for it to float.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#15. You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is ... unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

Alice Neel

#16. When a couple announces they are getting married, far too often the first response is "let me see the ring." Really? Your first concern after two people have decided to spend the rest of their lives together as husband and wife is how fancy the ring is?

Carlos Wallace

#17. He hasn't lost his vision. That's one thing. He's good. The guy is smooth and knows how to set up blocks. He's a veteran, too. It's fun to watch him run. Hopefully everything works out all right physically, but certainly he looks good so far.

Jake Delhomme

#18. What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Diane Keaton

#19. If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

Henry Beard

#20. There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

Madonna Ciccone

#21. Some people applaud my no nonsense approach to life. Others say my methods are "extreme". Where I'm headed and how I get there is between me and my God. So, if you don't know where I'm going, how can you suggest I'm taking things too far?

Carlos Wallace

#22. Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Frei Otto

#23. As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language.

Criss Jami

#24. No matter how far down a path you go, if it's the wrong path, turn around and go back home - before it is too late.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#25. The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

Pope Gregory I

#26. Even the European critics ... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

Eli Roth

#27. Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Srikumar Rao

#28. At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.

Harriet Rubin

#29. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#30. This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

John Podesta

#31. It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.

Theoren Fleury

#32. He ate his supper without bread. A double helping and bread
that was going too far. The bread would do for tomorrow. The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#33. There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

Newt Gingrich

#34. The thing is: you might be right to trust someone at one point, but they can change."
"+ in between they must be drifting from trustworthy to not. But you can't tell how far they've drifted until it's too late.

J.J. Abrams

#35. How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would like to believe. We may be adults, chronologically and physically, but too often the youngest parts of our personality are invisibly, yet actively, living our lives.

Charlette Mikulka

#36. The stream of life is black and angry; how so many of us get across without drowning, I often wonder. The best way is not to look too far before-just from one stepping-stone to another; and though you may wet your feet, He won't let you drown-He has not allowed me.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#37. Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?

Julius Bailey

#38. And that is how unhappiness persists. We blame ourselves far too much, and make ourselves more miserable. Then we defend ourselves ineffectively, and perpetuate a vicious circle. We have to try something radically different.

Anonymous

#39. But in general, who's to say what's not gay enough? And how do we even raise that question without raising the far more perilous one of, Is it too gay?

Christopher Rice

#40. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Warren Buffett

#41. Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Jean Cocteau

#42. Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.

Ron Baratono

#43. I think loss isolates a person. Everybody is far too nervous to ask you how you feel, in case you have a breakdown in front of them. It's much easier not to say anything and hope the pain goes away quickly and quietly.

Victoria Connelly

#44. Liz, I didn't expect to fall for you, not like this ... not so completely. And I never expected for you to fall for me too. But here we are. Let's see where this goes. Let's see how far left there is to fall.

Rachel Higginson

#45. People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

Vaclav Havel

#46. The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

Godfried Danneels