Quotes of: Far-away Keyword

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

The Merchant of Venice

Correct the blunders on your face made through self-delusion – this would be far more fitting than to want to teach me, which is just as if a sow trying to teach Minerva.

Nana Joop

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

Nemesis

Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either.

The New Valley: Novellas

Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

One Day

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

The Lovely Bones

I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.

Of Love and Other Demons

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.

The Little Mermaid

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

Life of Pi

Life Is ‘Simple’ By Nature... The deeper you try to study, the more you complicate it. Just believe in it’s simplicity & it shall show you it is far too Simple actually!

Life Simplified!

It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every other way.

Snowbound with the Soldier

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

The Setting Sun

But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.

Stardust

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

Searching for God Knows What

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Today We Are Rich: Harnessing The Power Of Total Confidence

Is this what it's like? he wondered. When you're about to die? One hand stretched back to someone who cares for you, the other reaching for a place you can't see.

Too Far

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

The Old Man and the Sea

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

The Other Side of the Story

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

Principal Doctrines