Far Short Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
-
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
— John Stuart Mill
-
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
— Betty Friedan
-
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is…
— Hesiod
-
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be . . . time to commune with your…
— Fred Bear
-
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
— Robert Frost
-
I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I…
— Robert E. Lee
-
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.
— Fred Bear
-
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie;…
— Samuel P. Huntington
-
I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
— Scott McClellan
-
It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity…
— Peter R. Orszag
-
Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow…
— Warren Buffett
-
It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real…
— Alfred Bester
-
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing…
— Ayelet Waldman
-
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,…
— Franz Kafka
-
Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.
— Ernest Becker
-
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as…
— Benjamin Franklin
-
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them.…
— Bill Frist
-
And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security.…
— David Price
-
I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.
— Tiger Woods
Who Wrote These Far Short Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Far Short Quotes as follows: