Top 1200 Near And Far Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.

The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.

At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

I always feel I'm getting near to something that's got more to it than I can get hold of.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.

I'm Australian, so I love the stores near Crowne Plaza Melbourne, on the banks of the Yarra River.

I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the writers, who have helped out at the beginning and end of the process - they're all men - have suggested quite feminine subjects they want me to explore. And I'm always, simply, 'No.' I don't want to do diets, don't want to. I just can't do it.

Virtually any practical task becomes chaos within seconds of me getting near it.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.

I have over a hundred wigs, I like to change them damn near every hour.

The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.

The most important body part is the mind. With the will and know-how, you can perform near miracles.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.

It's great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.

Let us say with one voice, the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn: "I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me."

We are hammered 24/7 with the "far left" and "far right" points of view, pounding us, beating us upside the head with purely political theatrics in order to make us believe it's real. It's not real. It's a con!

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share.

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

I come from an almost unknown village near Rohtak called Madina, and that is where I started my wrestling career.

To be honest, I've never told anybody they have bad breath. When I do recognize that, I try not to breathe when they come near.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

We Bengalis are querulous, arrogant, oversensitive and far, far too emotional. We cry too often and laugh too hard. We wave our passions like bright flags. Calcutta is our city.

So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is indistinguishable from all those things that carry its projections...that is, symbols of the outside world and the cosmic symbols. These form the psychological basis for the conception of man as a macrocosm through the astrological components of his character.

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

To say I was near our president, performing at the Nobel Peace Prize... I think that's an amazing thing.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.