Quotes About Far

#1. [ ... ] But this will not do. No, this
will never do. There are
continents and shores which
beseech our understanding.
Seldom have we been so slow.
Seldom have we been so far.
My only wish is to see
Far Arden again.

Jim Morrison

#2. I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.

Felix Dennis

#3. Marianne was vexed at it for her sister's sake, and turned her eyes towards Elinor to see how she bore these attacks, with an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain than could arise from such common-place raillery as Mrs. Jennings's.

Jane Austen

#4. I was ready to get the hell off the mountain, but somehow that offered no satisfaction. I had gotten in too deep. I would have been so easy if only I could have cried. But crying wasn't an option, because I felt that far ahead of me there was something really worth crying about.

Haruki Murakami

#5. If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.

Alva Myrdal

#6. Far as she knew, Hell hadn't opened its ice skating rink.

Janet Tait

#7. Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That's all it is. I didn't have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I'm from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.

French Montana

#8. I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Joan Collins

#9. I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.

Mithun Chakraborty

#10. Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

Richard Dawkins

#11. I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn't willing to die for his convictions isn't worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.

Elias Koteas

#12. We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

Tony Snow

#13. Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

Paul Mellon

#14. If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

Matthew Simpson

#15. Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.

Jan Chipchase

#16. Prisoner of War guard companies, or an equivalent organization, should be as far forward as possible in action to take over prisoners of war, because troops heated with battle are not safe custodians. Any attempt to rob or loot prisoners of war by escorts must be dealt strictly with.

George S. Patton

#17. I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

William P. Young

#18. People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Anton Chekhov

#19. It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.

Homer

#20. Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

James Purdy

#21. For those who kept saying it can't be done:
Never are the victories or the honors won.
But, rather,
By the believing, doing kind,
While the doubters watched
From Far Behind.

Bruce Lee

#22. What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.

Ken Buck

#23. Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

Bruce L. Shelley

#24. My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

Raif Badawi

#25. It was all battles, fights and court. Humans are far more exciting. You have colourful swearwords and cake-- - Aithinne

Elizabeth May

#26. So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

Herbert Croly

#27. I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots.

Smokey Robinson

#28. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Harry Crews

#29. As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Al Capp

#30. So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.

Sanjay Kumar

#31. Whatever is happening, it is Shadowhunter business. There is a house, not far from here, that has been granted to the vampire representative of the council. We may go there."
"Together?" Simon said.
"It is a very large house," Raphael said. "You will be at one end of it and I at the other.

Cassandra Clare

#32. Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

Erich Maria Remarque

#33. Religion will not get us where we need to go. It just goes so far, and then we're on our own toward the open space where there are no religious practices or beliefs.

Art Hochberg

#34. It felt like he'd been pushing himself into my life from the very first time I dreamt of him. Ever since, my life had slowly chipped away into pieces that didn't seem to fit together anymore. I was afraid that if they ever came together, it would be far from the life i hoped it would be.

L.J. Kentowski

#35. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to announce tomorrow that he is running for president, making him Hillary Clinton's only Democratic challenger so far. Or as Hillary put it, 'Oooo, appetizers!'

Jimmy Fallon

#36. I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.

Steve Forbes

#37. The single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#38. I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Greenspan

#39. Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

John Fowles

#40. The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

Roz Chast

#41. Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

Prince Philip

#42. As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration.
-Sookie

Charlaine Harris

#43. And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle?" asked K. "So far it doesn't seem to have come in. What you've told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere, ...

Franz Kafka

#44. Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.

Jon Stewart

#45. If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.

Kathleen Rooney

#46. Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Bruce R. McConkie

#47. Start to become active in what u love DOING. People admire action, courage&real happiness far more than they admire a size 2

Daphne Zuniga

#48. Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

Caitlin Doughty

#49. Sometimes I picture all your fingers. Sometimes they're crawling down my spine. Sometimes they're buttoning your jacket. Sometimes you're far but your still mine.

Anna-Lynne Williams

#50. I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#51. The pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

L. Jon Wertheim

#52. We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Marcel Proust

#53. It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Henri Poincare

#54. Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

Hyeonseo Lee

#55. Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.

Kevin Systrom

#56. When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum.

Toni Sorenson

#57. Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.

Ann Cleeves

#58. Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.

Geoffrey Wood

#59. Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

Owen Sheers

#60. The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Sherwood Anderson

#61. Yellow leaves hang on your tree of life. The messengers of death are waiting. You are going to travel far away. Have you any provisions for the journey?

Anonymous

#62. Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Lady Violet

#63. Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

John Dewey

#64. As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.

John Battelle

#65. And worse, there was the music. He didn't know what it was, but it seemed to come from far, far off. It called to him, but not in a pleasant way - it had an urgency that sped his heart and made his blood burn.

David Gaider

#66. We could not understand, because we were too far and could not remember,

Joseph Conrad

#67. They seem close, the stars, but they're far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender.

Margaret Atwood

#68. Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse
a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Charles Caleb Colton

#69. Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

Chuck Schumer

#70. If there was a way out of this mess, he'd find it. If there wasn't, I would run with him until we got far enough away to start over.

Celia Aaron

#71. For one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?

Parke Godwin

#72. Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that.

Lev Grossman

#73. Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets

Thom Yorke

#74. Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

Ann Coulter

#75. Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#76. Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.

Edward Kennedy

#77. I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Billy Connolly

#78. Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

John Grisham

#79. The most serious Christians have always been well disposed towards me. I myself, an opponent of Christianity - de rigueur, am far from bearing a grudge against the individual for what is the fatality of millennia.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#80. Like a Frenchman, far from home, catching a whiff of Gauloise.

Stephen Fry

#81. Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

Jesse Eisenberg

#82. I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything. I

Kazuo Ishiguro

#83. Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

Michael Cunningham

#84. If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#85. If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

Mandy Patinkin

#86. Fine figure of a young fellow as far northwards as the neck, but above that solid concrete.

P.G. Wodehouse

#87. There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#88. Mockery had gone too far during Hearts. There had been an attempt at strangulation and then her ear had been perforated by a fork.

Michael Ondaatje

#89. One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments ... is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.

T.F. Hodge

#90. Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.

Hartley Coleridge

#91. Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Charlotte Bronte

#92. I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.

Meghan Daum

#93. When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

Didier Drogba

#94. But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.

Madeleine L'Engle

#95. Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Marcus Aurelius

#96. But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story ...

David Clement-Davies

#97. Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

Christopher Lee

#98. She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#99. You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

Gregory Peck

#100. every weekday morning at that exact time, barring holidays, major illnesses, or snow over her boot tops. As far as anybody knew, she didn't actually have a schedule written out, but were her day divided out on paper, that's what it would say. Courthouse steps 8:59 a.m. Out of bed at 7:30, bran

A.H. Gabhart