Far Quotes

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I live not too far from it in New York City.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime.

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

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.