Far Quotes - page 13

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz” but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner” so far as music is concerned. (Harry S. Truman)
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge. View quote
Louis Agassiz
Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation. View quote
Jean Piaget
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. View quote
Jean Piaget
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. View quote
Alain de Botton
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
It isn't about "games", for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something- anything- far bigger than yourself. (Shigeru Miyamoto)
Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right. View quote
James Thurber
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether? View quote
William James
Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. View quote
Thomas Paine
It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. View quote
Thomas Paine
We hold that the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty, is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance, ambition and intrigue. View quote
Thomas Paine
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. View quote
Thomas Paine
Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building. View quote
Steve Irwin
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. View quote
Frank Zappa
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them! View quote
Maimonides
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless. (Maimonides)
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body. View quote
Maimonides
When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed. View quote
Fred Rogers
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough. View quote
Kinky Friedman
As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi