A Quotes
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“A forbidden love that ended badly.”
Source: Hard Rain
“A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.”
Source: Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici
“A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.”
“A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.”
“A force field. They've set one up between the Gamemakers and us. I wonder what brought that on," Beetee says.
"Me, probably," I confess. "Last year, I shot an arrow at them during my private training session." Beetee and Wiress look at me curiously. "I was provoked.”
Source: Catching Fire
“A force of spare direct necessity
Reduced the heavy framework of man’s days
And his overburdening mass of outward needs
To a first thin strip of simple animal wants,
And the mighty wideness of the primitive earth
And the brooding multitude of patient trees
And the musing sapphire leisure of the sky
And the solemn weight of the slowly passing months
Had left in her deep room for thought and God.
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Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A forced confession is no confession at all”
“A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“A FORCEFUL TRAINER IS A SPOILER”
“A Ford Terino jerked to a stop, inches from her knees. Before the driver could honk, Jimena tapped the hood of the car. The man glanced up and her eyes warned him, You're out of your neighborhood.
He understood and settled back patiently as if it were normal to stop at a green light in Los Angeles. Once Jimena had crossed the street, the car screeched away.”
“A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'”
“A foreclosure does not define you financially.”
“a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside
and domestically approved romantic fancy
is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing
it will only be parlayed into a memory”
Source: The Early Years: The Lyrics, 1971-1983
“A foreign company in a comparable industry should pay the same as a domestic company, even if their products aren't produced here. That can be achieved using measures in corporate tax law.”
“A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.”
“A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"”
“A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.”
Source: The prime of life
“A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.”
“A foreign land is a desert
that will never replace the soil
your heart aches for,
where your memory lives,
where your ancestor’s rest.”
“A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.”
“A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.”
Source: Literary criticisms and other papers
“A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.”
“A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.”
“A foreign publisher of [The Selfish Gene] confessed that he could not sleep for three nights after reading it, so troubled was he by what he saw as its cold, bleak message. Others have asked me how I can bear to get up in the mornings. A teacher from a distant country wrote to me reproachfully that a pupil had come to him in tears after reading the same book, because it had persuaded her that life was empty and purposeless. He advised her not to show the book to any of her friends, for fear of contaminating them with the same nihilistic pessimism. Similar accusation of barren desolation, of promoting an arid and joyless message, are frequently flung at science in general, and it is easy for scientists to play up to them. My colleague Peter Atkins begins his book *The Second Law* (1984) in this vein:
'We are the children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.'
But such very proper purging of saccharine false purpose; such laudable tough-mindedness in the debunking of cosmic sentimentality must not be confused with a loss of personal hope. Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions. To accuse science of robbing life of the warmth that makes it worth living is so preposterously mistaken, so diametrically opposite to my own feelings and those of most working scientists, I am almost driven to the despair of which I am wrongly suspected. But in this book I shall try a more positive response, appealing to the sense of wonder in science because it is so sad to think what these complainers and naysayers are *missing*. This is one of the things that the late Carl Sagan did so well, and for which he is sadly missed. The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is truly one of the things that makes life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is finite.”
Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
“A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.”
“A foreign threat is useful to put things in order in one's own camp, to make one's allies follow the bloc discipline. Iran does not fit this role too well, and it is very tempting to revive Russia's image of the enemy. But nobody in Europe is afraid anymore.”
“A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.”
“A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.”
“A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.”
“A foreigner should consider practicing other countries' customs, manners, and etiquette before visiting the country.”
“A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.”
“A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“A forest doesn't weep over one tree.”
“A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.”
Source: The Word for World is Forest
“A forest full of trees is as important and valuable as a mine full of gold.”
“A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.”
“A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.”
Source: Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties
“A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.”
“A forest tree cannot help a lonely tree in its battle for existence, because such a battle requires the knowledge of loneliness!”
“A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes--”
Source: Bayou Moon
“A forgotten past is a past that is yet to be.”
“A forgotten past is a past that is yet to be. A forgotten history is a memory missing from our collective conscience. An incomplete history is like an incomplete mind that has forgotten who it is and where it came from.”
“A fork in the road! How wonderful! I love forks in the road! They lead to opportunity!”
Source: Stepsister
“A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.”
“A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.”
“A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.”
“A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”
Source: The Game of Chess