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Quotes About Farthest

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an allegory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).
~ Rebecca Solnit
The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
~ Charles Studd
The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.
~ Oswald J. Smith
Why is the sun invisible so long in winter near the farthest points north or south?
~ Richard Evelyn Byrd
the farthest angle from the second opening
~ Alexandre Dumas
The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.
~ Frederick Douglass
Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for of us holds good to all eternity the motto, "Each one is the farthest away from himself"—as far as ourselves are concerned we are not "knowers.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.
~ beecher henry ward xviii
It was as if he had only just now lost his homeland and in it Menuchim, the most faithful of all the dead, the farthest away of all the dead, the closest of all the dead.
~ Joseph Roth
If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from. Please pass the blue milk, Aunt Beru.
~ Ernest Cline
'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.
~ Alicia Garza
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
~ James Russell Lowell
We Cyngael live where the farthest light of Jad falls. The last light of the sun. It needs attending to, my lord, lest it fail.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
It begins in the hearts of people and has ripple effects that spread to the farthest reaches of sin.
~ Timothy S. Lane
It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the hyper-religious, the young people, sometimes middle-aged women, those who have the least to lose because they don't have much in the first place, who feel the new currents and ride them the farthest.
~ Christine Wicker
Utmost [farthest] Thule.
~ Virgil
My great desire in my fulfilling my ministry was to get into the darkest places of the country, even amongst those people that were farthest off of profession; yet not because I could not endure the light (for I feared not to show my gospel to any)
~ John Bunyan