Far Quotes

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

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

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

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

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

A good example is far better than a good precept.