Far Quotes

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

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.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

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.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.