F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.”
Source: Youth and Life
“Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.”
Source: Legend
“Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.”
“Few people give themselves time to be friends.”
Source: Southey's Common-place Book
“Few people go to art exhibitions nowadays, the art comes to them!”
“Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.”
“Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.”
“Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.”
Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)
“Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.”
“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
“Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.”
“Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.”
“Few people in the USA seem to realize that President Trumps ‘Made In America’ through international tariffs is likely to make almost everything more expensive and it will hit the poor, sick and elderly the hardest.”
“Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.”
“Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.”
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.”
Source: Animal Dreams
“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”
Source: Animal Dreams: A Novel
“Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.”
“Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.”
“Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.”
“Few people know this, but I am a trained assassin, skilled in jujitsu and krav maga. I can also, with a few folds, turn an ordinary piece of notebook paper into a lethal weapon. Or I can turn it into a butterfly, which is a great trick when I'm babysitting."
I fought a smile. "A trained assassin who babysits."
"Only the Greene twins and only because their family gets every premium channel on the planet.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“Few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. ... I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror”
Source: Great Expectations
“Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.”
“Few people know you so well as those who hate you.”
Source: Little Wolves
“Few people love with the violence they hate.”
“Few people make a living as a public speaker but many people build it into their career. A career is like a suit of clothes: to look its best, it must be tailored and accessorized. So whatever career you choose, let's say it's social work - you can, for example, ask your boss - if you can give talks at housing project community centers about the social services available.”
“Few people mind a dumb person who is humble and follows orders well, but dumb people who agitate for change that benefits dumb people quickly destroy any civilization.”
Source: Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity
“Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker's incomparable legacy.”
“Few people paid much attention to the importance of eyes when it came to seduction, he thought. It took a Bene Gesserit upbringing to make that point. Big breasts in a woman and hard loins in a man (that tightly muscular look to the buttocks) – these were naturally important in sexual matchings. But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing. Eyes were essential. You could drown in the right kind of eyes, he had learned, sink right into them and be unaware of what was being done to you [...].”
“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”
Source: The War of the Worlds
“Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Few people realize that filling Space with tens of thousands of satellites will destroy the health of over 7 billion people on planet Earth.”
“Few people realize that luck is created.”
“Few people realize that the Bible discourages people from studying foreign languages. They story of the tower of Babel informs us that there is one humanity (God's one), only that "our languages are confused." That has always meant that, say, any German philosopher could know exactly what the Chinese people were thinking, only that he couldn't understand them. So instead of learning the foreign language, he demanded a translation.”
“Few people realize the number of things that are possible.”
“Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.”
Source: Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)
“Few people repent at leisure after taking the high road.”
“Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.”
Source: Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God
“Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.”
“Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.”
“Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle
“Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.”
“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”
“Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.”
“Few people today realize just how much faith in oneself (that part of oneself which is spiritual, perfect) has to do with achievement, because the great majority of people never seem to conceive of faith as being a genuine creative force. Yet the truth is that not only is Faith a bona fide power, but it is the greatest one we will ever encounter.”
“Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
“Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.”
Source: The Love Books of Ovid
“Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.”
Source: You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success