#far

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

#being #constitution #country #democracy #democratic

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#depth #easier #far #feeling #forces

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#enemy #far #friend #happiness #just

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. ↗

— Milton Berle

#been #cannot #far #has-been #i

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#computer #farthest #genius #i #i am

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#angeles #childhood #different #different place #far

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. ↗

— James Buchan

#back #because #boom #borrowing #came

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

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#affords #any #appointed #as far as #being

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! ↗

— Ada Cambridge

#anchor #beacon #chart #compass #far