Sentence examples for get you very far from inspiring English sources

Action without knowledge doesn't get you very far.

"It's a neat gimmick, but it won't get you very far".

You could work up a dichotomy here, but it doesn't get you very far.

"I think manners get you very far in a rather uncivil world," Dr. Thompson said.

"Twenty dollars doesn't get you very far in this world," she says.

Confirming – or failing to confirm – someone else's discovery is unlikely to get you very far.

"Xerox still has cost problems, and if you're not competitive, liquidity doesn't get you very far".

Redescribing lecture notes in essays is unlikely to get you very far.

"As a journalist, you discover quite quickly that the question 'What did you feel?' doesn't get you very far.

Reasoning with Freddy Krueger may not get you very far, but you can pray he has a conscience somewhere.

Both points are true, so true that they're truisms but, like most truisms, they don't get you very far.