Far Quotes

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

President Obama's first term in office has been better for intentions than for actual changes in planning and policy. I do believe, and he has several things to this effect, that he would like to provide universal preschool or at least far more preschool for our children.

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.