Far Quotes - page 3

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. (Mary Pickford)
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. View quote
Charles de Lint
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. View quote
George Gershwin
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. View quote
Amartya Sen
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. View quote
Thomas Hardy
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated. View quote
John Ruskin
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. View quote
Karen Blixen
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. (Louisa May Alcott)
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The covers of this book are too far apart. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of a man who desrves them. View quote
Robert Graves
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. View quote
Mae West
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. View quote
Joseph Addison
It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. View quote
William Penn
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. View quote
Colette
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. (Ernest Hemingway)
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. View quote
Vannevar Bush
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. View quote
Stephen Covey