All Quotes

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
‐‐ Fiona McIntosh

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
‐‐ Louisa May Alcott

Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.
‐‐ David Axelrod

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
‐‐ Lars von Trier

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
‐‐ John Tukey

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.
‐‐ Jules Verne

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before Kelly or Stella.
‐‐ Mari Carmen Ramirez

Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
‐‐ Henry Norris Russell

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
‐‐ Edmund Leach

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
‐‐ John Acton

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
‐‐ Max Bill

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.
‐‐ Jim Capaldi

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.
‐‐ Charles Koch

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
‐‐ Eugen Herrigel

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
‐‐ Stendhal

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.
‐‐ Laurie Graham

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
‐‐ James Dyson

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
‐‐ Patricia Hill Collins

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
‐‐ Charles Koch

Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
‐‐ T. Boone Pickens

Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.
‐‐ N. T. Wright

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.
‐‐ Robert Winston

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.
‐‐ Kenneth H. Cooper

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.
‐‐ Charles Koch

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
‐‐ Louis Leakey

Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.
‐‐ Aditi Shankardass

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
‐‐ Jeff Miller

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
‐‐ Laura Ingalls Wilder

'Faraway' takes only minutes or a couple of bus stops to play. The easy to use touch controls work beautifully on the iPad. This is the game that should come standard on every new iPad.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.
‐‐ Greil Marcus

Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.
‐‐ Mark Linn-Baker