Top 100 Quotes About Farther
#1. Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
Hugh Gaitskell
#2. Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company." "First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.
John Flanagan
#3. Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
John Calvin
#4. Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.
George Harrison
#5. You are not damaged like I am. You are not a hundred scattered pieces, blowing farther and farther away from each other.
Marissa Meyer
#6. Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
Ellsworth Huntington
#7. Leaving you was the last thing I ever wanted to do." He scowled, his grip holding her tighter, moving her farther into the heated wall of his body. "It was the hardest goddamn thing I've ever done. Ever, Claire.
Lara Adrian
#8. Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.
Cesar Vallejo
#9. Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.
Tony Clark
#10. Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
Anais Nin
#11. Farther the government must not go. It must not attempt any service of any kind for the people, from the mere mechanism of carrying their letters to that most arrogant and ill-conceived of universal schemes, the education of their children.
Auberon Herbert
#12. Maybe our job in life is to help
a person run a little farther,
to try a little harder,
to not give up.
Phil Mitchell
#13. Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.
Bobby Bonilla
#14. The farther you progress toward a vision of our species without limiting conditions on your consciousness, the farther you drift away from what makes you a person among persons in the human community.
Thomas Ligotti
#15. ... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend.
Tsegaye Gebre Medhin
#16. True sincerity works more than a magnet. It attracts, bond and take people farther far better than mere action and words!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?
Robert Musil
#18. If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids - without exception - were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away.
Kim Harrison
#19. Son, if you were any farther from fine you'd be in Nebraska.
Deborah Blake
#20. if bridge building were like programming, halfway through we'd find out that the far bank was now 50 meters farther out, that it was actually mud rather than granite, and that rather than building a footbridge we were instead building a road bridge.
Sam Newman
#21. The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Nelson Mandela
#22. Whenever she was with him, it was as if she could dream bigger, see farther.
Elizabeth Camden
#23. Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
Karl Urban
#24. Close your eyes and listen, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.
Alice Hoffman
#25. In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'
Fred DeLuca
#26. Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?
Daniel Keyes
#27. Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.
Ron Franscell
#28. Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.
T.A. Barron
#29. The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
Robert Lanza
#30. I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.
Darren Star
#31. What finger-shaped Florida lacks in breadth it makes up for in length; Tallahassee is 480 miles from Miami (farther than New York City is from Cleveland). The
Philip Caputo
#32. And now each day seems,
Like my own soul, farther and farther off,
Lost in its light as in a dream in which I meant to ask you something.
Stanley Plumly
#33. Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ...
Agatha Christie
#34. To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means ... I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it.
Italo Calvino
#35. Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has to move a little farther on in his faith than the beliefs he has already accepted.
Oswald Chambers
#36. When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.
James McAvoy
#37. On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.
Erich Maria Remarque
#38. The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
Dan Brown
#39. Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where Im going, and now I'd give anything to stay.
Kami Garcia
#40. The heart is the eye of the human being. The purer it is, the quicker, farther, and clearer it can see.
John Of Kronstadt
#41. I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.
Nelson Algren
#42. I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
Joe Torre
#43. You don't need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.
Brian Greene
#45. [About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
Jennifer Beals
#46. I rise early that morning and dress in green and brown, my skirst the same colour as the forest floor. I include a cap copied from one of the duchess's, but set farther back from my face. She may be a bitch, but she does have style.
Katherine Longshore
#47. SIN WILL TAKE YOU FARTHER THAN YOU WANT TO GO, KEEP YOU LONGER THAN YOU WANT TO STAY AND COST YOU MORE THAN YOU WANT TO PAY.
Kimberly Jones-Pothier
#49. Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
Joseph Conrad
#50. The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.
Chris Matakas
#51. Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!
Neal A. Maxwell
#52. She kept leaning farther and farther forward, and I became concerned her bodice wasn't up to the task of containing her bounty.
Jordan L. Hawk
#53. Sedgewhisker appeared farther down. We need to get out
Erin Hunter
#54. We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
John L. Phillips
#55. Nancy's last sentence is on the last page in your file. There is nothing more we know. As the sheriff might say, we don't have anything farther.
Karin Slaughter
#56. If this expansion is something you want, I invite you to come along with me just a little farther. I have lots to tell you, and I think we can talk better around the corner. In the dark. PART
Stephen King
#57. And yet this is farther than I've ever fell; You know me much too well. Funny it don't feel like we just met. It didn't take much time. Forever's more than crossed my mind, and we haven't even said 'I love you' yet.
Toby Keith
#58. The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
Herbert Read
#59. In a family or other small group, altruism prevails, but the farther away a person gets from an individual, the less altruistic he or she behaves toward them.
Mary Pilon
#60. Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
Norm MacDonald
#61. Another hundred years were ground up and churned, and what had happened was all muddied by the way folks wanted it to be -- more rich and meaningful the farther back it was.
John Steinbeck
#62. For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
George R R Martin
#63. She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away.
Cynthia Voigt
#64. I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"
Steven Wright
#65. And, as I traveled farther and farther, exploring the rich, sweet soul of her, my sense of pleasant friendship became but a broad foundation for such height, such breadth, such interlocked combination of feeling as left me fairly blinded with the wonder of it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#66. Technically, if I were farther away from the center of the Earth then I'd be subjected to less gravity and then I would weigh less. So I'm not really fat. I'm just not high enough.
Jenny Lawson
#67. We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.
Paul Biya
#68. The little energy you obtained from your breakfast can ignite your willingness to kick start. Don't overlook the little energy you have now by fixing eyes on a supposed magical influence farther away!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
Irene Joliot-Curie
#70. Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
Madame De Stael
#71. Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option; it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it.
Chris Matakas
#72. A land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.
Halldor Laxness
#73. I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
Harmon Killebrew
#74. The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
Chris Pine
#75. You don't forget the people you love," she told him. "That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around. Annie to Pete
Alice Hoffman
#76. The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#77. You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
Abbott L. Lowell
#78. The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.
Billy Graham
#79. My eyes meet his eyes.
"You were a jerk," I say.
His hands move to my cheeks. "I'm sorry."
I pull away, but I can only go an inch before I bump into lacrosse sticks, not that I really want to go any farther. "Nope. No way. You do not get to kiss me yet."
He pouts.
Carrie Jones
#80. Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.
Steven James
#81. It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
George Washington
#82. I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.
Philippe Cousteau Jr.
#83. I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.
Dudley North
#85. History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.
Gilbert Highet
#87. It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.
Umberto Eco
#88. Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood
#89. The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
Francis Parkman
#90. Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.
John Von Neumann
#91. I merely crawl still farther under the coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it. Before
Erich Maria Remarque
#92. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#93. But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
Maurice Blanchot
#94. The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
Bill Watterson
#95. At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.
L.M. Montgomery
#96. I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
Emmanuelle Beart
#97. Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. Carhart didn't see how running a massive smuggling organization could be boring but then again he wasn't a sociopathic action junkie who didn't plan farther than the next few days.
Santino Hassell
#99. With the development of the Internet ... we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.
John Perry Barlow
#100. Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
Cennino Cennini
