Top 100 You So Far Quotes
#1. Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Max McKeown
#2. My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'
Robin Roberts
#3. I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
Henry Rollins
#4. People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
Laila Ali
#5. Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
Mark Ruffalo
#6. Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
Karen Kain
#7. A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.
Jim Butcher
#8. She gave him the wide, green-eyed expression that she would have described as I will slap you so far into next week that it will take a team of surgeons just to get Wednesday out of your ass.
Christopher Moore
#9. Raw talent only gets you so far in this old world and the rest is a whole lot of practice, persistence, and perspiration.
Victoria Forester
#10. All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.
Eric Linklater
#11. I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.
DJ Shadow
#12. Talent can take you so far; Hardwork can take you ANYWHERE.
Hiruma
#13. There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.
Terry Wogan
#14. Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith
Michael Scofield
#15. What use is logic, when it takes you so far in the wrong direction?
Helene Wecker
#16. >"You're intriguing. I like that about you."
"You know what I like about you so far?"
"What's that?"
"Everything.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#17. Strength can only get you so far; vulnerability takes you the rest of the way.
C. Nicole Mason
#18. Fate can only get you so far. It can put you down the right path or introduce you to a particular person, but the rest is up to you. Even the strongest storm need a wind to carry them in.
Katie Kacvinsky
#19. You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.
Alan Palomo
#20. Following the rules only takes you so far, sooner or later you have to forget them and play by your heart.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#21. Do you have the heart to push yourself? If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far. You've got to be hungry. You've got to have heart. That's just reality.
Tiffeny Milbrett
#22. Good looks only take you so far. You don't have to be the best looking guy.
Angie Everhart
#23. I've come to learn that determination only gets you so far in life when you're completely devoid of ability.
Jane Costello
#24. Natural ability can only take you so far. Continual improvement is all that matters.
Lorelei James
#25. Following the traveled path can only take you so far. Never fear the unknown
Airicka Phoenix
#26. The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
Ben Foster
#27. Creativity, imagination and talent can only get you so far -- you still need luck and money -- And that's why they call it Show Business and not Show Art
Wayne J. Keeley
#29. New Age eccentricity could only take you so far before you wandered into mentally ill territory.
M.M. McLaughlin
#30. Just saying, you have to pull your own weight. A hot body and flirting will only get you so far.
Ilona Andrews
#32. We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.
Parker J. Palmer
#33. Susan told me on the way out," Hawk said, "how you been spreading your charm around town and now they ready to lynch your ass."
"Charm can only carry you so far," I said.
Robert B. Parker
#34. When you're being celebrated and flying high, don't allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is.
T.F. Hodge
#35. Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese.
Teju Cole
#37. What in this fucking world are you going to tell me?
...
One book has been written by You so far... you have read few books and you are spreading what!?
Deyth Banger
#38. There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.
Jenna Elfman
#39. Yeah you were lucky, you had your chances to don't get shoot, but after all you done it for your girlfriend, but what kind of love is that?
So far you got lucky a lot of shoots touched you, so far you are the lucky shooty victim.
Deyth Banger
#40. It's all risk. And if it isn't, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right for you, a risk that doesn't take you so far out of your own identity that it's not a you that you recognize who's doing the writing.
Jim Krusoe
#41. Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
Abby Wambach
#42. She paused, cleared her throat twice, and I suddenly realized she was crying. If you want to love someone, then go right ahead. I know what love feel like; you didn't invent love. But the Lord Almighty doesn't give out promises just because you love someone. Love only gets you so far.
Wally Lamb
#44. You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.
Sally J. Pla
#45. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
Aaron Rodgers
#46. If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far." I froze.
Ilona Andrews
#47. Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands
Rae Carson
#48. Science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
Yann Martel
#49. What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.
Lynn Coady
#50. Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.
Paul Pierce
#51. I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well.
Jesse Metcalfe
#52. I've been taking it easy on you, kid, can tell you're having fun. But it's all sensation to you so far. I haven't pushed you, taken you out of yourself, looked for that place inside where you give yourself to your top. Sometimes pleasure can take a bottom there, but more often it's pain that does.
Anne Thomas
#53. Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.
Bruce Coville
#54. Yes," said Jalem as he returned to his brushing. "You've obviously done a superb job so far. Tell me, do I need to make an appointment to try and kill Drothe, or is it simply on a first-come, first-served basis? I can never keep kin etiquette straight.
Douglas Hulick
#55. 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
#56. Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.
Tom Riley
#57. You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#58. I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it ...
50 Cent
#59. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?
Larry Brown
#60. So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.
Price Pritchett
#61. 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
#62. Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
Shams Tabrizi
#63. I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.
Jeffrey McDaniel
#64. And my heart shatters for the second time today. It's blown apart into so many pieces, the shrapnel spread so far and wide, I know what remains will never fit back together again. Puzzles don't work when you only have half of the pieces. Same goes for hearts. I
Kim Holden
#65. Oh, may your silhouette not be broken in the sand,
oh may your eyelids not fly in the absence:
do not go for one minute, beloved,
because in that minute you will have gone so far
that I will cross all the earth asking
if you will return or if you will leave me dying.
Pablo Neruda
#66. He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.
Max Stirner
#67. My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
Rob Zombie
#68. You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path ... a better path ... His path.
Billy Graham
#69. When I look into your eyes it's like watching the night sky or a beautiful sunrise; well, there's so much they hold. And just like them old stars, I see that you've come so far to be right where you are. How old is your soul?
Jason Mraz
#70. So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
Leonard Cohen
#71. It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the strings are virtual?
Kirstie Collins Brote
#72. I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.
Dries Van Noten
#73. Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric is
reality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where I
was on the other side. So that's why I don't want to go back, and
why you wouldn't like it.
Esme Ellis
#74. It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.
Fritz Maytag
#75. At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.
Paul Graham
#76. I'm single, so
"
"No, you're not." He had stepped closer, and his voice dropped to a low growl. "Whatever this is ... you are not single. You're not unattached as far as I'm concerned.
Elizabeth Hunter
#77. So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it
Robert Fulghum
#78. I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
Richard K. Morgan
#79. (Mutters under his breath) Smartass AI. (Louder) Well, we're not dead yet, so it could be worse. I'll let you know if we blow up. (Under breath) Let's see how far we can push before we really do break something critical.
Rolf Nelson
#80. His eyes closed for a split second and he sank against Armand's shoulder, feeling Armand's hand on his back. Far away he heard Armand's voice: What do I do with you, my beloved? Especially now, when I myself am so afraid.
Anne Rice
#81. If your child has a disability, a problem of any kind, do not become so wrapped up with the problem that you neglect the child. Your child needs your unconditional love far more than anything else - far more than any medical care, no matter how necessary. Far
D. Ross Campbell
#82. The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
Gail Collins
#83. You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.
Robertson Davies
#84. As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.
Francois Fenelon
#85. Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.
And if you please to call it a rush candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
William Shakespeare
#86. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#87. Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed
George Harrison
#88. The Hills Have EYes... so be careful where you step and where you go so far one family has went there and few of them have came back!
Deyth Banger
#89. You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#91. To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
Marya Mannes
#92. You know, unrequited love is very difficut? It's not just having this one-sided love of someone who's far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a guy who's constantly near me is harder than it would be under different circumstances.
Park So Hee
#93. Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
Bobby Cox
#94. If you're so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.
Michelle N. Onuorah
#95. Congratulations. So far, you've both scored a hundred percent on the quiz."
"Quiz?" Liam blinked, then looked at Hammer, his eyes wide. "Shit, we didn't study, mate."
"If Seth is giving the quiz, we're good. He can't be smarter than us," Hammer said in a stage whisper.
Shayla Black
#96. The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of someone whose magnetism is far more powerful than any other kind of temptation, it is impossible to reach. That is the meaning of disciplehood.
Rajneesh
#97. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.
Hilarie Burton
#98. One of the things that I've learned from the Selection so far is that moving forward means joining your life before coming to the palace with the future that lies in front of you. I'm hoping to make another step in joining those two worlds today.
Kiera Cass
#99. There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
Thomas Jefferson
#100. He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her , too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.
Alice Hoffman
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