F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few people when meet first time they feel that meeting each other was the purpose of their life.”
Source: One Bucket of Tears
“Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.”
Source: Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four
“Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.”
Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.”
“Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.”
Source: Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life
“Few people won’t like it if you treat them the way they treat you. Try it and if you like it carry on.”
Source: Slate
“Few people would argue that Stony Cross Park was one of the most beautiful places in England. The Hampshire estate sustained an infinite variety of terrain from near-impenetrable forests to brilliantly flowered wet meadows and bogs to the stalwart honey-colored stone manor on a bluff over looking the Itchen river.
Life flourished everywhere, pale shoots springing from the carpet of decayed leaves at the foot of fissured oaks and cedar, stands of bluebells glowing in the darker parts of the forest.
Red grasshoppers vaulted through meadows filled with wild primrose and lady's-smock, while translucent blue damselflies hovered over the intricately cut white petals of bog bean flowers. It smelled like spring, the air saturated with the scent of sweet box hedge and tender green lawn.”
Source: Scandal in Spring
“Few people would dream of hiring a contractor to build them a house and expect it to be built to a safe standard only 85 percent of the time; similarly, few people would want to eat out in a restaurant where only 85 percent of the meals were safe to eat. Why then do we accept such sloppiness in road safety, where a situation in which 85 percent of drivers going the speed limit is deemed to be good enough?”
“Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.”
“Few people would trade their every treasure in exchange for a peaceful sleepy night.”
“Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.”
“Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.”
“Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.”
Source: Power Through Prayer
“Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.”
Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition
“Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.”
“Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.”
Source: The Fixation of Belief
“Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.”
“Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.”
“Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.”
“Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.”
“Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.”
Source: Complete writings of John Burroughs
“Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.”
Source: Some Poets, Artists & 'A Reference for Mellors'
“Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.”
“Few places favor meditation more than the desert”
Source: Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
“Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope.”
“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.”
“Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.”
“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here, reading a page from one over there, enjoying them all as objects to be touched, looked at, even smelt, is a deep satisfaction. And often, very often, while browsing haphazardly, looking for nothing in particular, you pick up a volume that suddenly excites you, and you know that this one of all the others you must read. Those are great moments - and the books we come across like that are often the most memorable.”
“Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.”
“Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.”
“Few pretty and privileged young women really understand the essential injustice of biology...For most of her life as a woman, the rules were perfectly clear cut: other women were the enemy, and all love was war. She had rejected feminism, quite openly, as a crutch for the envious and ugly, and regarded married women as holding the upper hand if, unlike her own mother, they had any strength of character. The weaknesses and dependencies imposed by fecundity had never entered into her calculations.”
“Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.”
“Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.”
Source: Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama
“Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.”
“Few questions make long friends in the hills.”
Source: Told in the Hills
“Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?”
“Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.”
“Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Few realize that a great deal of the energy that results from photosyntheisis in the leaves is actually used by plants to produce chemicals they secrete through their roots. These secretions are known as exudates. [...]
Root exudates are in the form of carbohydrates (including sugars) and proteins. Amazingly, their presence wakes up, attracts and grows specific beneficial bacteria and fungi living in the soil that subsist on these exudates and the cellular material sloughed off as the plant's root tips grow. [...]
During different times of the growing season, populations of rhizosphere bacteria and fungi wax and wane, depending on the nutrient needs of the plant and the exudates it produces. [...]
Plants produce exudates that attract fungi and bacteria (and, ultimately, nematodes and protozoa); their survival depends on the interplay between these microbes. It is a completely natural system, the very same one that has fueled plants since they evolved. Soil life produces the nutrients needed for plant life, and plants initiate and fuel the cycle by producing exudates.”
Source: Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
“Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.”
Source: The Mathematical Tourist: New and Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics
“Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.”
“Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.”
“Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant- assuming that every creature that could be called ‘human’ is allowed in, and the the human race eventually totals a thousand times the numbers of humans alive up until now. This is such a generous amount of space that it suggests that room has also been provided for some alien races or - a happy thought - that pets are allowed.”
Source: The Last Hero
“Few remembered the stories of the days before the end of the Second Age. Those days when all the lands had been under the control of the Council of Five were now wrapped in legends and seemed like fantasy.”
Source: White Light Red Fire
“Few save the poor feel for the poor.”
“Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.”
Source: From Design to Discover :
“Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.”
“Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000.”