Far Quotes

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

I don't like to think too far ahead.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.