Far Quotes

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

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

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.

I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.