Top 1200 Far Distance Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.

Overhead costs are far too high, state support is dropping, and college tuition is far too expensive. Colleges are pricing themselves out of existence.

Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

I have far less than what people think, but far more than I need.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

I still think what the consumers are looking for is, number one, entertainment. They want to be entertained. It can be a liberal, a libertarian, or a conservative. It can be far-left or far-right. If they are entertained, they are going to tune in.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

I definitely don't want to run any 5K races anytime soon. I can work out pretty hard as far as intensity. But as far as playing basketball or anything high impact, it's probably not smart for me to do.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy, not even talking.... Talking is an escape, an escape from love. When two lovers are talking that simply shows they are avoiding the intimacy. Words in-between give distance - with no words distance disappears, death appears. In silence there is death just lurking around - a beautiful phenomenon. But people are so afraid that they go on talking whether it is needed or not. They go on talking about anything, everything - but they cannot keep silent.

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

My travels to the Far East occurred primarily during the 1960's. Naturally, I have returned many times since. Of course, there was concern from my family that I was traveling to far distant lands to accomplish snowboarding activities that no one had tried yet.

I was very pleased to see that things have come far, far away from the Diva Search days where it was, 'Let's have a bunch of girls in bikinis flop around and look stupid so the public can vote them on or off the show.'

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

I'm a distance fighter - if you've seen me fight, I like ducking in and out.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossoms far, far away; there is an earth, there is a heaven, unknown to men.

I often end up travelling in my Jeep for long distance road trips.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.