Far Quotes

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

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

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.