Farther Quotes

416 Farther quotes by 365 unique authors

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place… — Joseph Conrad
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of… — Edward Gibbon
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther… — Thomas Carlyle
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of… — Dante Alighieri
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther… — Bernard of Chartres
Perform the best you can for when you find that you perform your best, there is still so much more in volleyball to do better,… — John Kessel
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds… — Samuel Beckett
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do, — Harmon Killebrew
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could… — Fritz Kreisler
A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly… — Robert Wise
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther. — Lois Lowry
Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly, — Robert M. Gates
"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome… — Patrick Ness
But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center… — Hermann Weyl
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be… — Isaac Watts
It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious,… — Loren Eiseley
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power. — Seneca the Younger
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman… — Ray Stannard Baker
The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are… — Jackie Robinson
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the… — Lewis Mumford
What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to… — Christopher Lambert
Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm… — Lee Westwood

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