A Quotes
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“A father’s love denied, a bond broken—his heart aches in silence as his children grow distant.”
Source: Mr. - Untold story of husbands
“A Father's love is not bound by your rituals for Him but by His relationship with you.”
“A father’s only dream is to hear his daughter ask to kill some zombies. Go for it, sweetie. Make this old man proud.”
Source: The Human Race
“A father’s success does not depend upon his ability to work and provide, to guard and protect, or to lecture and discipline.
A father’s success does not depend upon his ability to guide and govern, to instruct and demonstrate, or to remedy and repair.
A father’s success does not depend upon his ability to understand and relate, to adapt and change, or to entertain and play.
A father’s success does, however, greatly depend upon his ability to love and be loved.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.”
“A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“A father shows compassion to his children.”
“A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.”
“A father who finds it difficult to express his love vocally for his children may need, at first, to be humbly obedient in holding family home evenings in order to help him to discover, or to increase, his appreciation for his children. Next can come to him the courage to say I love you to each one.”
“A father who has a contentious son will not act in ways that lack ritual propriety. A well-bred man who has a contentious friend will not do what is not yi [just; correct]. Thus, if a son simply obeys his father, how would that son be filial? If a minister simply obeys his lord, how would the minister be exercising fidelity? To be careful about the cases in which one obeys another – this is called filial piety, this is called fidelity.
(Xunzi “The Way to be a Son,” Hutton p. 326).”
“A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.”
“A father will not keep looking for faults in his children if he is very religious/pious. One should not see faults in a prakruti (relative self). When one does that, it reaches the God within that prakruti. Prakruti is predetermined, it is vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidence).”
Source: Generation Gap
“A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.”
“A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.”
Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice
“A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.”
“A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.”
“A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.”
Source: Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus
“A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.”
“A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon”
“A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.”
“A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.”
“A fatherless girl thinks all things are possible, and nothing is safe.”
Source: The Company of Women
“A fathers love is not less than a mother's love but its not expressed as mother do.”
“A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“A faucet's true purpose is to be shut off”
“A fault is fostered by concealment.”
“A fault is something very easy to find in others, but becomes invisible when you try to find it in yourself”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A fault is sooner found than mended.”
“A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.”
“A faulty understanding of science, along with rigorism and spiritual flattening in religion, termed scientism or biblicism, respectively, have taken hold of the Book of Man and lead in every way to a miserable, indeed abject, conception of History. There has been a will to reduce History to a universal law, on the pattern of the natural sciences (Ultimate Law of History, abbreviated to ULH). Or the revelations of scripture are presumptuously held for a gnomon, the shadow-stick of a sundial allowing calculation of the course of salvific History. The outcome, at best, was loss of meaning and relativism. Novus ordo is the reckoning.
History has its own Universal Formula. This “formula” is not a law, nor a scheme, but an order: Novus ordo.”
Source: Novus Ordo: An Introduction to the Apocalypse or Geometry of End Times
“A fav'rite has no friend!”
Source: The poetical works of Thomas Gray, etc. With a separate titlepage bearing the imprint of John Sharpe, London, dated 1805
“A favor de la vida, no encontra de la vida.”
“A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.”
“A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.”
“A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.”
“A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.”
“A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.”
“A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.”
“A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.”
“A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.”
“A favorite Palestinian tactic was to set up a couple of cannons or rocket launchers in a Christian village, fire a few rounds into Israel, and then quickly withdraw, knowing that Israel’s return fire would fall on innocent Christian civilians. This created a double benefit in the eyes of the Palestinians: Lebanese Christians would die, and the Israelis would be vilified and hated even more. This has become a public relations ploy that has been authored and perfected by the Palestinians ever since.”
Source: Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
“A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.”
“A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge everything that ever happened is still here.”
“A favorite song or tune may stay on your mind for hours. A good book will stay on your mind until you find another.”
“A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.”
Source: Speedboat
“A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.”
“A favoured person seeks wisdom from the Word of God and finds power in prayer.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man