Farthest Quotes
102 Farthest quotes by 93 unique authors
-
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see…
— Florence Griffith Joyner
-
When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map…
— Kent Nerburn
-
Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.
— Tibullus
-
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
— Jonathan Brandis
-
I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And…
— Abba Kovner
-
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
— Eric Hoffer
-
Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?
— John Milton
-
The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by…
— Guy Finley
-
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
-
Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders…
— Joan Lindsay
-
They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap…
— Hunter S. Thompson
-
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
— Matthew Henry
-
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
— Jean Paul
-
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
— Leo Rosten
-
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,…
— Rebecca Solnit
-
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.
— Patrick Jones
-
Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
-
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.…
— Stephen Colbert
-
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
— Theodore Roosevelt
-
There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but…
— Stephen Kendrick
-
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate…
— Audre Lorde
-
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
— Saul Alinsky
-
The gull sees farthest who flies highest
— Richard Bach
-
wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.
— William Shakespeare
-
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love…
— Sigrid Undset
Who Wrote These Farthest Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 102 Farthest Quotes, led by these top contributors: