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Quotes About Far

There are some kinds of damage that take you far beyond normal rules and systems of ethics and morality—beyond this point be monsters, as the ancients used to say.
~ Peter Robinson
Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
~ Robert Blair
Although I'd ascended hundreds of mountains, Everest was so different from anything I'd previously climbed that my powers of imagination were insufficient for the task. The summit looked so cold, so high, so impossibly far away. I felt as though I might as well be on an expedition to the moon.
~ Jon Krakauer
page 212: let me be far from the battle at Thermodon Watching if from high in the clouds, like an eagle. The vanquished weep, and the victor has perished.
~ Plutarch
And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
~ Joseph Conrad
they weren't far from the small city of Ithaca – which meant the vast sprawling spectacular campus of Cornell University…
~ Joyce Carol Oates
ideas about politics and economics are a lot like movie stars. If people think that other people like them, such ideas can go far.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Where had they all gone to, he often pondered; those threads he had once held together, how far had they scattered, some to break, others to weave into unknown patterns? The strange randomness of the world beguiled him, that randomness which never would, so long as the world lasted, give meaning to those choruses again.
~ James Hilton
There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers.
~ Scott Turow
'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between.
~ James Luceno
I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable.
~ Rachel Klein
Cowboys are used to a long focus, looking at a far horizon, not at a computer. So when a cowboy chooses to focus on you, it is a choice and he really focuses, like you matter, not like you just happen to be in his line of vision.
~ Rachel Kramer Bussel
The measurements of space and time, the photographs of far stars and of points of light which proved to be composed of thousands of stars, filled him with an awe which felt like the edge of a delicious panic.
~ Ramsey Campbell
I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
~ Taissa Farmiga
The fight against HIV/AIDS cannot be won unless countries take ownership of protecting and supporting the health of communities both near and far.
~ Tedros Adhanom
Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees.
~ Raymond Chandler
Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.
~ Rebecca Solnit
perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Yes, and had your hotel proved slightly less psychotic, matters would never have got as far out of hand as they have.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.
~ Julian Barnes
There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.
~ Alice Foote MacDougall
The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.
~ Confucius
I feel like it'll change after the movie [Star Wars] comes out, if it does. It's really the other way around, surprisingly, as far as Con Man goes.
~ Alan Tudyk
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson