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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain? -- John Milton
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. -- Jean Paul
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. -- Jonathan Brandis
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. -- Paul Dirac
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell. -- Antonia Fraser
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. -- Leo Rosten
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. -- Matthew Henry
The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun! -- Dada Vaswani
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down. -- William Christopher Handy
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. -- Arthur Eddington
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space. -- Patanjali
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. -- Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. -- Dale Carnegie
When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds. -- Anne F. Beiler
I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. -- Alice Walker
In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another. -- William Dampier
We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton
I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. -- Ignatius of Antioch
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 who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision. -- John James Audubon
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain. -- Mario Testino
I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh. -- Russell Peters
If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty. -- Gail Sheehy
The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you. -- Deng Ming-Dao
The gull sees farthest who flies highest -- Richard Bach
The next way home's the farthest way about. -- Francis Quarles
I look down the farthest side of the mountain, -- James Elroy Flecker
The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home. -- Charles Studd
The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest. -- Patrick Jones
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem. -- Saul Alinsky
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. -- Eric Hoffer
My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest? -- Naz?m Hikmet
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. -- Paul Dirac
God comes at last when we think he is farthest off. -- James Howell
The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home. -- Oswald J. Smith
Sometimes those who start out the slowest end up going the farthest. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it. -- Jonathan Kellerman
Tangaloor, fire-brightFlame-foot, farthest walkerYour hunter speaksIn need he walksIn need, but never in fear. -- Tad Williams
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him. -- Booker T. Washington
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends. -- Thomas Adams
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. -- William Wordsworth
If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest. -- John Dryden
A warrior knows that the farthest-flung star in the Universe reveals itself in the things around him. -- Paulo Coelho
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God. -- William Whewell
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east. -- Henry David Thoreau
A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still -- Emily Dickinson
wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. -- William Shakespeare
The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world. -- George W. Bush
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough. -- James Russell Lowell
Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas. -- Tibullus
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest. -- Elizabeth Goudge
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did! -- Sarah Roemer
The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile. -- Wilbur D. Nesbit
Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease. -- George Eliot
My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it. -- George Washington Carver
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. -- Alan Chadwick
Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations. -- Michael Jackson
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house. -- Os Guinness
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. -- Henry David Thoreau
When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest. -- Yasmin Mogahed
You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me. -- Lisa Kleypas
When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Annes in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds. -- Anne F. Beiler
How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off. -- Henry David Thoreau
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses ... -- Aristotle
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences. -- Al-Ghazali
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The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols. -- Carl Jung
Bet you don't know why the sun sets red. You see, light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest. -- Axel
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself. -- Max Lerner
For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped. -- Conn Iggulden
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst. -- J. C. Ryle
Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans. -- Geena Davis
[Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least. -- H. L. Mencken

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