Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.
[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.
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.
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.
Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.
We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
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.
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 his wings, never flies at all.
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
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.
The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
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.
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
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.
