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Quotes About Far

Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.
~ Christine Warren
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
~ Luke Ford
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Far more studies failed to find any lunar correlation with suicide.
~ Atul Gawande
And our sailors of space have a legend of the furthest star of all, where the gods lay their plans against us, or plot the catastrophes of the end of time: the pachacuti . We call this undiscovered star Karu, which means 'far'.' 'As we speak of Ultima,' Quintus mused.
~ Stephen Baxter
Where am I? 'Why, you are here, your highness.' 'And where is here?' 'Far from there but close to nearby.
~ Stephen Fry
Suddenly we were in outer space. Aboard a rusty old piece of junk freighter. Far away. And in real trouble.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Each heart is a pilgrim, Each one wants to know The reason why the winds die And where the stories go. Pilgrim, in your journey You may travel far, For pilgrim it's a long way To find out who you are...
~ Enya
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
~ beecher henry ward xvii
Tell me that wasn't a spider?' said Ms Winstanley in a deceptively calm tone. 'Can't have been,' I said. 'Thank god for that,' she said. 'Can't stand spiders.' 'It was too big,' I said. 'You can't scale an exoskeleton up that far.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
In truth, she had far more experience in Fed policymaking than I had had on taking office.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.
~ Leo Kottke
I played other sports, so when I played golf, I wanted to have fun. And hitting it far is fun.
~ Gary Woodland
to an author there is a certain romance when stray copies of his work turn up in far, poor or abandoned places of the world.
~ Graham Greene
That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again.... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then the dim ones must be far and farther away, and toward those reaches I hurled my soul.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
At least once a month Choo Choo managed to get lost. There were constant reports about animals who could find their way home across hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of miles. Choo Choo continued to get lost within the block on which it lived. It was his opinion that Choo Choo had the homing instincts of a fart—once having escaped, it would lose its point of origin, yet never get far enough away to ignore.
~ Sharon Sala
Why, that requires not this preparation; ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.
~ Mary Shelley
But it's in the nature of progress that it erases its tracks, and its champions fixate on the remaining injustices and forget how far we have come.
~ Steven Pinker
long, long way from home
~ Erin Hunter
There's people who make their living with animals," she said. "Naturalists they're called. You could be one of them." "From then on my father knew what he wanted to do," said Finn. "He wanted to get as far away from his family as it was possible to go, and live with animals." When you know what you want you usually get it.
~ Eva Ibbotson
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
~ Susanne Bier
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
~ Betty Grable
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It isn't so very far from the elevated as distance goes, but it's centuries away as the soul goes.
~ H.P. Lovecraft