A Quotes
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“A fountain is the memory of nature, this marvelous sound of a little river in the mountains translated to the city. For me, a fountain doesn't mean a big jet of water. It means humidity, the origin of life.”
“A four foot box, a foot for every year.”
Source: Death of a Naturalist
“A four-letter alphabet called DNA.”
Source: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
“A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.”
“A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house where he once lived. But he can feel the absences – and feel them as sensation, like a texture that was once at his fingers every day but now is gone and no matter how he gropes or reaches his hand he cannot touch what’s no longer there.”
Source: Let Him Go
“A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.”
“A four-year degree shouldn't be the only path to a good-paying job.”
“A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“A fox can be smarter than a wolf.”
Source: Gift of the Fox
“A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."”
Source: Aesop's Fables (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
“A fox in the chicken coop. That's what I was.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.”
“A fox is subtlety itself.”
“A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“A fox plays with your emotions while a lion plays without any emotions.”
“A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.”
“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.”
“A fox with sharp teeth is more dangerous than a bear with blunt paws.”
“A Fractal is a like a mathematical shape that is infinitely complex. In simple terms, it is a pattern that repeats forever. Every part of it, regardless of how it’s zoomed, in or out its parts look similar to the whole.”
Source: Healing Sole to Soul
“A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...”
“A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.”
“A fraction of a moment could mean anything — death, love, success. You find meaning in moments as the next moment is not yet found. When it’s found, it could be everything or nothing at all.”
“A fragment for my friend--
If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
Silent, my starship suspended in night”
Source: Station Eleven
“A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece”
Source: My Life and My Life in the Nineties
“A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality.”
“A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.”
“A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.”
“A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.”
“A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.”
“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.”
“A frame is a psychological model you build for yourself to organize and carry out a strategy to attain a goal; to move from spot A to spot B while guarding against detours and resistance.”
“A frame is the foundation from which everything evolves.”
“A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.”
Source: Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning
“A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.”
“A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.”
“A França l'ortografia gaudeix d'un estatut social d'obligació i de control que l'han convertit en una veritable institució; unes pràctiques rigoroses en matèria de correcció transformen l'ortografia en la més aspra de les proves selectives.”
“A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.”
“A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves owe to the fraternity for what it gave them in their formative years.”
“A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.”
“A fraudulent vote is a stolen vote. It steals a vote from the thin air and nullifies the legal and legitimate vote of a tax-paying citizen, whose rights to a fair election shouldn’t be tampered with. Winning an election is important, but winning it honestly is imperative in a Constitutional Republic.”
“A fraught life may be full or dangerous, it depends on one’s attitude.”
Source: Regarding Willingness
“A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.”
“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
Source: Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
“A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.”
Source: Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
“A free and open internet is vital for the freedom of expression.”
“A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.”
“A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks”