F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
“Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.”
“Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...
“Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.”
“Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.”
“Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.”
“Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.”
“Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?”
“Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.”
“Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.”
“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.”
“Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.”
“Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.”
“Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.”
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
“Few are willing to put their money, or their jobs, on the line for an unconventional idea.”
“Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.”
“Few artists can afford artistic temperament.”
“Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him.”
“Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.”
Source: Childhood's End
“Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.”
“Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.”
“Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.”
“Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.”
“Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.”
“Few books can be said to smell of blood, spilled guts, bodily fluids, unpardonable acts.”
Source: The Secret of Evil
“Few books today are forgivable.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.”
“Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.”
“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us”
Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.”
“Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES,
EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS
THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GUARANTEE
THE SURVIVAL OF THE RACE.”
“Few can remember
clearly when innocence came
to a sudden end,
the moment at which we ask
for the first time: Am I loved?”
Source: Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928
“Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.”
“Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.”
“Few characters in history are indispensable.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“Few chemicals confer maleness, but many take it away. Which, if any, are responsible for our own troubles is hard to say.
The Pill changed men's lives in more ways than one. It caused reproductive hormones to leak into tap water and has been blamed both for the sex changes in freshwater fish and for the drop in our own sperm count. The jury is still out on the issue, but other hormones have had a disastrous effect. A drug called diethylstilbestrol was once thought - in error - to prevent miscarriage. Five million mothers took it and for a time it was even used as a chicken food supplement. A third of the boys exposed to the drug in the womb suffer from small testes or a reduced penis. In rats, the chemical causes prostate and testicular cancer (although there is as yet no sign of those problems in ourselves).
To give a powerful steroid to pregnant women was at best unwise, but the effects of other chemicals were harder to foresee. The 1950s saw a wonderful new chemical treatment for banana pests. Soon the substance was much used. Twenty years later the workers noticed something odd: they had almost no children. Their sperm count had dropped by five hundred times.”
Source: Y: The Descent of Men
“Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.”
“Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.”
“Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.”
Source: Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women
“Few coffee shops have books, fewer have good books, and even less will have one book that can change your whole life. Now, the question is: How many people can find that book? And, among those who do, how many will read it? Because, you see, life always provides opportunities, but not many can see them, when they're just there, waiting to be found, when they come our way, even if in the most unexpected place in the world. One has to be very sharp to recognize a window of opportunity in a wall of illusions. And the ability to redirect attention, demands that one can be capable as well of knowing his own limitations in the vast sea of energy and vibrations. Now, I could be talking about a book, a group or a person, as the axiom remains true to itself.”
“Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'”
Source: Managing in Turbulent Times
“Few comprehend celibacy.”
Source: Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.”