F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Festus, you're such a great listener.”
“Fetch Constantine, or I’ll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel) Don’t touch me, or I’ll mount your jewels to the wall over your head. (Aimee)”
Source: Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Fetch stood and looked at her hoof. “You fool-asses going to do what I say?”
“Oh, yes,” Polecat said, his eyes glazing. “Anything. You tell me to lick your quim and I will serve without question.”
“If I need that done, I’ll ask Cissy,” Fetch returned. “She tells me you’re hopeless at it.”
“Fetch those cables from your spinal cord, and electrify this dampened world!”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.”
“Fetih üzerine tebrike gelen ulemâya Fâtih şöyle hitap etti: Kostantiniyye'yi "kendü kılıcımla alıb-dururın kimesnenüzden himmet ve 'inâyet olmamıştır.”
Source: İki Karanın Sultanı İki Denizin Hakanı Kayser-i Rum - Fatih Sultan Mehemmed Han
“Fetish is a straight-up sex song.”
“Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes forever. I feel that the 21st century is all about fetish.”
“fetish: (n.) anything, such as the stock market, falsely believed by primitive peoples to possess divine, magical or supernatural qualities.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Fetishes are literally viewed as fake forms of attraction. The fetish concept is used to delegitimatize attraction to any and all bodies that are not considered normative. This is why people are accused to have transgender fetishes and fat fetishes and disability fetishes, but never cisgender fetishes, thin fetishes or able-bodied fetishes. Even in cases in which the person in question exclusively partners with these latter groups.”
“Fetishism, then, is a nondeclarative narrative – a means of sharing pain, of being heard.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“Fetter Lane,' read Edie.
"Fetters are chains. Like handcuffs, On your legs," said George.
"I know," she said. "They don't go in for cheerful, do they, these City people naming their streets? I even saw a Bleeding Heart Yard once. Had a horrible atmosphere. I didn't touch anything and got out as fast as I could.”
Source: Stoneheart
“Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.”
Source: The Sufis
“Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.”
“Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.”
“Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.”
“Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.”
“Fetty Wap's not one person. Fetty Wap consists of a tight family. When I go out as Fetty Wap, I represent the whole family. The family is RGF [Fetty's original label, RGF Productions].”
“Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.”
“Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.”
“Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be serfs on such a feudal estate. We now condemn feudalism. We condemn not merely the feudal lords but we condemn the whole structure of rules that sustained feudalism. I am asking people to think similarly about the world economy.”
“Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“Feudalism, that discreet system of gentlemen gangsters and serfs, had never died out in the region, and was concealed in the trappings of modern buildings and streets. Only a lunatic would quarrel with his master; only a fool would not understand that he stood in the steel jaws of death his entire life.”
Source: Spirit House
“Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.”
“Feuds are weeds... Once it’s grown roots, it’s harder to dig up; and it’s far easier to spread.”
Source: Giant Country
“Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God's sake?”
“Fever is not actually a sign of sickness, it is a sign that your body is fighting infection. Likewise, revolution is not a sign of disorder, it is a sign that the society is fighting the infection of inhumanity.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Fever itself is Nature's instrument.”
Source: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.
“Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'”
“Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.”
“Fevkalade yüksek iki tehlike arasında bilge adam en azından savaşabileceği seçeneği seçer!”
“Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.”
Source: The Lycian Shore
“Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.”
“Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion.”
“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”
Source: Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste & Style
“Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.”
“Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.”
“Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.”
“Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. The nights no less than the days in fewity, and perhaps as much in evil, considering the wickedness of the majority of my dreams.”
Source: Mr. Macabre: A Short Story
“Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.”
“Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated
“Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.”
“Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.”
“Few approach Nick the rest of the night, I am the only one brave enough to take him his specially made tea. "Thank you", he said barely glancing up at me.
"You're welcome", I said waiting for him to look up at me but he won't. I have to force myself to say something before the doubt takes me over. " That guy was wrong, but you should have ignored her to begin with. She would have been humiliated enough by that alone. Your ego got in the way of your judgment." I said before walking away proudly.”
Source: The Devil's Eyes
“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.”
“Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).”
“Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.”