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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.
My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'
When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.
As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.
By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
This perception that I'm negative toward Peyton and I don't appreciate the things he did is so far from the truth.
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
I am far more confident now because of the love people have showered on me. Their acceptance is what keeps me going.
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
As far as style goes, I gravitate toward anything that is effortlessly chic. I don't wanna look like I'm trying too hard.
I've lived an easy life, the life you dream about. And at that time I thought it was normal, but it's so far from normal.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.
So far, my trip in Australia has been absolutely lovely - wonderful country, wonderful people... And then there's Melbourne.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.