F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.”
“Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.”
Source: Open
“Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.”
“Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.”
Source: Good For You
“Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.”
“Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.”
“Few of us enter romantic relationships able to receive love. We fall into romantic attachments doomed to replay familiar family dramas. Usually we do not know this will happen precisely because we have grown up in a culture that has told us that no matter what we experience in our childhoods, no matter the pain, sorrow, alienation, emptiness, no matter the extent of our dehumanization, romantic love will be ours. We believe we will meet the girl of our dreams. We believe 'someday our prince will come.' They show up just as we imagined they would. We wanted the lover to appear but most of us were not clear about what we wanted to do with them-what the love was that we wanted to make and how we would make it. We were not ready to open our hearts fully.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
Source: Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel
“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form”
“Few of us get anything without working for it.”
“Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.”
“Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.”
Source: The Intellectual Life
“Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.”
Source: The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings
“Few of us have seen the stars as folk saw them then - our cities and towns cast too much light into the night - but, from the village of Wall, the stars were laid out like worlds or like ideas, uncountable as the trees in a forest or the leaves on a tree.”
Source: Stardust
“Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian”
“Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.”
“Few of us know anything about fifteenth-century Danish kings, but most of us know the story of Hamlet. Such as it is with Chamberlain and Cormac McCarthy. Art has eclipsed the Real.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred”
“Few of us realize our potential; because if we did, we would pursue our passion and walk in our purpose.”
“Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.”
“Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.”
Source: The Mind in the Making
“Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.”
Source: 當代的生活藝術
“Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.”
“Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people.”
Source: The Book of Goose
“Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?”
“Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.”
Source: The Unseen Friend
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had over mamma, I lost at the age of three.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.”
“Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.”
“Few people are born with silver spoon, several with wooden fork, and many with fingers only. Birth into a sumptuous circumstance is no achievement.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Few people are denied agency as much as a teenage girl: She is dismissed, belittled, cut down to size at every turn. Her pleas for help are derided as 'attention seeking," and Heaven help her should she dare come forward with stories of abuse at the hands of someone who has power over her – namely, nearly everyone. Cutting, eating disorders, and other types of self-harm are some of the more earthbound cries for help, and at the other, extreme end of the spectrum
dwells the poltergeist.”
Source: A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
“Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.”
“Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.”
“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”
Source: Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional
“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”
Source: ON READING: Le plaisir de lire
“Few people asking about my post Westlife plans!? I'll be making a solo album of course! The process has already started actually ;)”
“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”
Source: The affluent society
“Few people become assholes reluctantly.”
Source: Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
“Few people can be happy," says a famous philosopher, "unless they hate some other person, nation or creed." "Creed" refers to what people believe, and I believe that everyone in the world should feel as welcome and safe as I did in that library. But of course that is not how the story goes. People are unwelcome and unsafe all over the world, and it is other people who make them feel that way. We all do. We are miserable at home, or at school, scared when we walk the streets, and we are terrorized in all sorts of places, ghastly and desperate, all over the globe. Not all suffering is the same, and we are not all suffering at the same time, but every person or nation or creed as had their turn, or is waiting their turn to suffer to to force suffering on us, sometimes so terribly that for some of us, at some moment somewhere in the world, the only escape is into the world of the imagination, because we cannot really imagine what is happening and what we have done.”
Source: Poison for Breakfast
“Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
“Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.”
“Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.”
“Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.”
“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.”
“Few people do business well, who do nothing else.”