Far Quotes

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I've met. I currently don't have any enemies that I know of.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

My record is, far as I know, unimpeachable.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle.

I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.