Top 100 This Far Quotes
#1. The house didn't feel the same; it wasn't the same. The eeriness of that night permeated the walls and the suffocating warmth trapped in those walls. And I stood there, waiting for my feet to think, to move, knowing that they would decide to do just that. They had come this far.
C.C. Wyatt
#2. There is no way in hell another guy is going to push me away after going this far, no freaking way!
Karen Swart
#4. Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further.
George R R Martin
#5. Alice? You didn't get this far without realizing that you don't have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.
Elle Lothlorien
#6. Everyone liked Robin. He liked Robin. How could he fail to like her, after everything they had been through together? However, from the very first he had told himself: this far and no further. A distance must be maintained. Barriers must remain in place.
Robert Galbraith
#7. Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?
Kim Wilde
#8. There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.
Peter Thiel
#9. No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!
Thomas Gage
#10. With such a small brain, I don't know how you made it this far.
Darren Shan
#11. I don't believe in fate ... but ... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in ... Maybe I'm wrong, but it's gotten me this far. It's the reason I fight, the reason I can keep going, despite everything. And it ... it led me to you.
Julie Kagawa
#12. People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.
Tiger Woods
#13. Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far ...
Anne Sexton
#14. I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
Sue Grafton
#15. How beautiful you must be
to have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away
W.S. Merwin
#16. That Castrima has lasted this far, a comm of stills who have repeatedly failed to lynch the roggas openly living among them, is miraculous. Even if "hasn't yet committed genocidal slaughter" is a low bar to hop, other communities haven't even managed that much. You'll give credit where it's due. It
N.K. Jemisin
#17. Stop your worrying, panicking and stressing. Breathe. Remember, you made it this far through difficulties that seemed impossible. Remember how many times you were saved at the very last minute
this time is no different.
Bryant H. McGill
#18. We're Garde,' I say, correcting this billion-year-old godlike energy force, because what the hell, we've come this far. 'We're here for your help.
Pittacus Lore
#19. How close is the ending, well, nobody knows.
The future's a mystery, and anything goes.
Love is confusing, and life is hard.
But you fight to survive, 'cause you've made it this far.
Adam Young
#20. I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.
Billy Joel
#21. If I didn't have enormous dreams, I wouldn't have come this far!
Mary Sage Nguyen
#22. Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored.
Joel Osteen
#23. How could I let this happen? How could I let it get this far? I never thought Malyn would have the same feelin's for me as I did for her. I'm dead, for goodness sakes. It's not like we can live happily ever after. I can't live at all.
Janae Mitchell
#24. Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
Chris Evert
#25. The world wasn't built in a day. It took a long time to get this far and it still isn't finished. It never will be finished. When something's finished, it's dead. But even then, it isn't finished. Nothing ever really is. Sometimes it just looks that way.
Nyx Smith
#26. This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.
Craig Childs
#27. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
Patrick Stewart
#28. I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
John Ratzenberger
#29. If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#30. It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.
James Nachtwey
#31. I did not come this far to settle for less than I deserve.
April WIlliams
#32. I can't be worrying about what other people think of me. I am my own person, and I have made it this far on my own. This is me - take me or leave me. I don't owe explanations to the rest of the world, only to my family.
Shilpa Shetty
#33. For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
Queen Victoria
#34. There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.
Brian Greene
#35. I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.
Della Reese
#36. I spend a lot of nights thinking
How did I make it this far?
I spend money every chance I get
Cause god damn I work hard.
Put here to take care of he family
But how was I supposed to know
If I don't take care of myself
Then how am I supposed to grow?
Wiz Khalifa
#37. I knew then that I would not turn back. I'd struggled to come this far, and I would commit myself to whatever happened next.
Louis Zamperini
#38. I want to be better."
"Then be better. Accept the fact that God didn't bring you this far only to abandon you. He isn't that kind of father. And you won't be either.
Sylvain Reynard
#39. So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
John Mahoney
#40. Tell me a way you think this can work."
"We'll find a way," I tell her.
"That's not an answer. It's a hope."
"Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
David Levithan
#41. 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
#42. Most of us are responsible most of the time, or we would not have come this far, it is remembering to not tell the victim story when we are under pressure that makes you a leader.
Malti Bhojwani
#43. It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#44. Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!
Katy Perry
#45. Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.
Kristin Armstrong
#46. Two little dark figures, looking up. Are they looking at me? Is is him? This far away there's only one way to know. I point to the sky.
Ally Condie
#47. I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.
Dave Matthews
#48. Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end, with its transcendent end, let go, we are the poem, we have come miles of life, we have survived this far to tell you, go on, go on.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#49. I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
Louis Zamperini
#50. ...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.
James Baldwin
#51. We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
Yvette Clarke
#52. But what on earth had possessed her, to take a wagon this far beyond nowhere? When
Emma Donoghue
#53. How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?
How can I come this far and not be brave?
Gayle Forman
#54. She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too.
Carol Grace
#55. I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
Lance Henriksen
#57. Dear God your the only north star I'd follow this far!
Owl City
#58. I couldn't have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I'm also very lucky to have the best friends that I do.
Nicole Anderson
#59. Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?
Christopher Hitchens
#60. I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far.
Sharon Stone
#61. I'd never have gotten this far without you, I said.
Jack tipped his cap to me. My heart squirmed around to find a new position under my ribs. I closed the door fast before I could say something really stupid.
Sarah Zettel
#62. Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.
Dan Quayle
#63. This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.
Wally Lamb
#64. The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century,
Douglas Adams
#65. Confidently step into the future,
knowing that God has got you this far
as a promise that He is able to get you
beyond.
Moffat Machingura
#66. What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.
Condoleezza Rice
#67. What the heck. He'd gone this far, might as well go for broke. He slid his fingers along the curve of her cheek, relishing the softness of her skin.
"I haven't felt so happy in... I can't even remember
Denise Hunter
#68. There was always a slug on the lettuce.
This was too good to be true.
He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David.
He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet.
Being carful had kept him alive this far.
There was no reason to stop being careful now.
Charlie Higson
#69. I couldn't make it this far in life without God's promises because His promises are the symbol of His righteous right hand carries me through every single situation. His promises are Yes and Amen.
Euginia Herlihy
#70. Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond ... why can't it seem to find me?
Jenny B. Jones
#71. I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."
Rob Corddry
#72. My anger swelled. I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. Nobody was going to swat down my friends like that! I mean ... nobody, not Nobody. Ah, you know what I mean.
Rick Riordan
#73. How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.
Charles Wesley
#74. I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.
Ronnie Van Zant
#75. Dan pulled him in. Anchored him. Secured him, like one mountain climber to the other, rope and irons and nothing but the abyss if the rope failed. "It will work. I haven't got this far to give up."
"It'll work." Dan's kisses grew more intense. "It must." Because you're mine, and you belong to me.
Aleksandr Voinov
#76. Now I appreciate that for those of you who have stayed with me this far, there's nothing too surprising about this romantic development. You probably saw it coming. But I didn't
James Patterson
#78. I sing this song in church - 'I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me.' I got a feeling that all these shows, all this everything, is part of my blessing. And in my heart, I know I'm going to do every show, and everything is going to be OK.
Sharon Jones
#79. Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool's errand," said Salo, "has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#80. I don't know how you're standing here. Yet you haven't broken. Not where it matters. Having come this far, I'm not sure you can be broken.
Brandon Mull
#81. You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. 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
#83. As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#84. Sometimes I'm amazed I've made it this far in life without ever being punched in the face.
Donna Augustine
#85. How have you made it this far in life, George? How do you not get eaten alive by the world out there?
Patrick Ness
#86. I have to choose to thrive, even in the pain. Even when it's tough. ... We can do this. God has not brought us this far to let us down now.
Joanna Gaines
#87. This far into the Unclaimed Hills, the highstorms were incredibly powerful. The plants had learned to survive. That's what you had to do, learn to survive. Brace yourself, weather the storm.
Brandon Sanderson
#88. Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them ...
Ray Bradbury
#89. O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#90. Be brave. You didn't travel this far to languish within the walls of your comfortable self.
Sandra Vischer
#91. There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this far, and you can't go back.
Haruki Murakami
#92. For Dad For never being hesitant that I'd make it this far. Even when you should have been.
Brian McClellan
#93. You are not dumb, Yevette. All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived- how can we be dumb? Dumb could not come this far,I am telling you.
Chris Cleave
#94. God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.
Colin Kaepernick
#95. A tingle ran down her back. This was so strange. Him, asking her this. Far more intimate than it should have felt. Because she knew he wanted to know. He didn't ask empty questions or waste words.
Veronica Rossi
#96. Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted - a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.
Neal Asher
#97. How could anyone go this far down the rabbit hole without realizing they needed help?
Francesca Zappia
#98. I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.
Priyanka Chopra
#99. Let whatever mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.
Cheryl Strayed
#100. In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.
Katherine Jenkins
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