#far

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#alien #among #cast #dim #enter

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#after #dared #every #far #i

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#done #everything #far #i #keep

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934. ↗

— Carl Hubbell

#all-star game #any #as far as #concerned #control

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#convinced #depends #events #far #happiness

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#centuries #culture #dies #educational #fade

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. ↗

— James Thurber

#face #fall #far #flat #lean

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#far #i #like #make #many

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#concerned #deserves #far #goddamn #human