Far Quotes - page 18

Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves. View quote
Jane Goodall
If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home. View quote
Tom Waits
Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated). View quote
Larry Sanger
' I was reared in a pub – as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people. View quote
Brian Cowen
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
SOME YEARS, like some poets, and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Broadly speaking, [Keynesianism means] that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Who wants to live to be a hundred What's the point of it A short life and a merry one is far better than a long life sustained by fear, caution and perpetual medical surveillance. View quote
Henry Miller
No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of. View quote
Ayumi Hamasaki
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. View quote
William S. Burroughs
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets. View quote
Thom Yorke
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it! View quote
John Frusciante
Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness. View quote
John Frusciante
A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong. (John Frusciante)
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored"-"I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare-that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft. View quote
E. M. Forster
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"! View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even mention celebrities. Many American towns are famous for things like, "See the World's Largest Ball of String!" I think my town's would probably have to be "Most Pretentious People". View quote
Katherine Heigl
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin