Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
[last lines] Shuya: No matter how far, run for all you're worth. RUN.
Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.
You will go far in the Church." "I have no desire to go far. My only ambition is to be a good priest." "You will be that, of course. Nevertheless, you will go higher. And do you know why?” “Why?” “Because,” said Orselli, “you are not afra...
To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.
He who would visit a vice, never has far to travel.
Stealing may bring profit, but hanging costs far more.
A clear conscience is far more valuable than money.
A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.
A good name reaches far but a bad one reaches farther.
Nicolas walked toward him. Ignoring the presence of the others nearby, he took Julien's chin in his hand and kissed him tenderly on the lips. Julien seemed chagrined at first, and then accepted the gesture. It was sweet, and had the air of a couple t...
Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; ...
As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a rogue wave overturning a boat on a calm day. Tragedy is never more than a b...
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to ...
No angel. The reason I went with all them girls was to try and get over you. I wake up to you everyday. you send my mind and body into frenzy. I can smell your hair when I close my eyes, or I can imagine how your hand feels when you lay it on my ches...
This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and the green place invited refugees—partly because they believed that if the Americans came back, they would bomb only buil...
