Far Quotes

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

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.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.

I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.

I've been through a lot as far as love.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.