F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.”
“Fabian looked darkly at Jozef, but reached into his pocket and handed him the keys for the car.
"It's a Daimler," he said roughly.
"I've driven them," Jozef answered evenly.
"Passenger door, you need to wiggle the handle before it will open.”
Source: Treasures of Darkness
“Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.”
“Fabio Celon did send me pages as he progressed, both in black and white and some color samples as well. It was really exciting to see the sketches and to see the story [The Kite Runner] shaping up visually.”
“Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.”
Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
“Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.”
“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”
“Fable Town's door is set in a sprawling live oak whose knobby trunk rivals the size of the largest mausoleum in our cemetery-- I suppose the door has to be this large to fit a dragon, after all-- with a canopy of serpentine branches that extended like the wizened, swollen-knuckled fingers of a witch. The knots are so smooth to the touch that I know this tree must be hundreds of years old. Thousands, even. Maybe even the first tree to ever exist in the Hinterlands.
For what is older than fables themselves? a voice whispers in my mind.
Distant tinkles of laughter like fairy bells rustle the shimmering leaves. Everything about this tree whispers of ancient storybooks and steaming spicy tea and castle halls filled with lute music. A picture of an open storybook is carved into the door, along with words so timeworn that I have to trace them with my finger to read them.
"Once... upon... a... time..." I recite aloud in a voice as breathy as a spell.”
Source: Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
“Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war!”
“FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.”
Source: Fablehaven
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth — often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.”
“Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160
“Fabre stood up. He placed his fingertips on d‘Anton’s temples. “Put your fingers here,” he said. “Feel the resonance. Put them here, and here.” He jabbed at d’Anton’s face: below the cheekbones, at the side of his jaw. “I’ll teach you like an actor,” he said. “This city is our stage.”
Camille said: “Book of Ezekiel. ‘This city is the cauldron, and we the flesh’ ...”
Fabre turned. “This stutter,” he said. “You don’t have to do it.” Camille put his hands over his eyes. “Leave me alone,” he said. “Even you.” Fabre’s face was incandescent. “Even you, I am going to teach.” He leapt forward, wrenched Camille upright in his chair. He took him by the shoulders and shook him. “You’re going to talk properly,” Fabre said. “Even if it kills one of us.” Camille put his hands protectively over his head. Fabre continued to perpetrate violence; d’Anton was too tired to intervene.”
Source: A Place of Greater Safety
“Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.”
“Fabric is just a fence we build around the self. To undress is to tear down the walls between your spirit and the sun.”
“Fabric of Stars (The Sonnet)
Rise or fall doesn’t matter,
If you've helped a few people.
Live or die doesn’t matter,
If you've helped a few people.
The point of life is not to live,
Any more than it is to just eat.
The point of life is to lift lives,
In their smile is victory, in tears defeat.
To win over enemies is ridiculously easy,
To win over hearts is the real act of valor.
Muscles wither, clothes get torn to pieces,
Valor and virtue can’t be bound by no graveyard.
Graves are for animals and gutter-crawling worms.
Helpers get forever etched upon the fabric of stars.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.”
“Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.”
Source: The Submission
“Fabrication of necessary illusions for social management is as old as history. But in the democratic system, the necessary illusions cannot be imposed by force. Rather they must be instilled in the public mind by more subtle means. A totalitarian state can be satisfied with lesser degrees of allegiance to required truths. It is sufficient that people obey. What they think is a secondary concern. But in a democratic political order, there's always the danger that an independent thought might be translated into political action. So it is important to eliminate the threat at its root.”
“Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.”
“fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.”
“Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic] is now absurd. But a person in a portrait does not age, even if the painting does. The picture removes the person from time's harm and fixes them in the moment; and so it does for me. I never go to a gallery and think that these people are dead and gone, no matter how long ago they were depicted. The painting fuses the person in the moment and that moment somehow includes me, and you, and everyone to come. Here he is now, Carel Fabritius, and so he will remain; the artist appearing in and as his own painting.”
Source: Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death
“Fabrizio sperava di separarsi da quel gruppo di stronzi e andare via per sempre.
Sognava di essere solo lui con Mimì, a fare musica e, finalmente, dare un calcio a quel posto dimenticato da Dio che è l’hinterland di Milano.
Invece due anni dopo sono ancora lì, a suonare e sudare, sputando sangue su spartiti di canzoni che non sono mai abbastanza belle, mai abbastanza buone.
Non per lui, almeno.
Mimì dice che sono spettacolari e lo guarda come se ci credesse davvero, ma Fabrizio sa che è molto probabile sia solo frutto della sua immaginazione.
Perché anche se a volte gli sembra che Mimì lo guardi, anche se è sempre accanto a lui quando sono al pub, anche se quando suonano gli va sempre vicino, Fabrizio sa anche che il suo amico ha una fidanzata.
Più di una, a dire il vero.
Come se fosse possibile il contrario, poi.
Più passano gli anni, più Mimì diventa bello.
E più passano gli anni, più Fabrizio si innamora di lui.”
Source: Distorsioni
“Fabulosity. It's a state of being.”
“Fabulous is as fabulous does.”
“Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.”
“Fabulous.” She pushed her plate across to him. “Try it yourself. You need to put on weight. You look awful.”
He winced. “I’ve never been handsome, honey. If that’s what you want, you’re with the wrong guy. However, if you do find that guy I will bust his pretty face to a pulp so you might as well stick with me.”
She grinned. “Eat.”
Source: Heart of Danger
“Fabulous. Toleration is the key word. It's a pity few people understand this.”
Source: Trust: A New Beginning
“Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.”
“Facciamo a braccetto gli ultimi passi. Siamo su. Ci abbracciamo. E’ mezzogiorno. Abbiamo raggiunto la meta dei nostri desideri, poco sotto il cielo. Oswald è completamente euforico. Grida “Siamo su, siamo su” dietro la sua maschera. Io sono felice, perché la vetta comporta anche la fine della penosa salita. La vetta significa non dover più fare nessun passo verso l'alto. Non riesco ancora ad esserne consapevole, solo le mie conoscenze mi dicono: “Questo è il punto più alto della terra”.
Scattiamo le fotografie per l'album di famiglia: io, il vincitore della vetta, io, il superuomo. Io, la creatura senza fiato, io, il Reinhard su un mucchio di neve. Pian piano realizzo il freddo, il vento, la mia stanchezza. Pian piano, dopo la gioia, viene la tristezza, viene una sensazione di vuoto: una utopia è diventata realtà. Intuisco che anche l'Everest è solo un'anticima. La vera cima non la raggiungerò mai.”
Source: Montagna vissuta. Tempo per respirare
“Faccio parte di quegli esseri che in fondo non sopportano un solo luogo sulla terra e sono felici solo tra i luoghi donde partono e verso i quali si dirigono.”
“Faccio solo finta di essere sfacciata. In realtà me la faccio addosso dalla paura. Questa cena fuori mi rende confusa. Non so se voglio davvero una storia lunga, o solo una scopata veloce. E tu?”
Source: Bad Chili
“Faccio un respiro profondo. Non so bene da dove venga tutta questa bramosia di sapere, ma ora che l’ho riconosciuta non riesco più a ignorarla. È come una creatura viva dentro di me, risvegliatasi da un lungo sonno, che si agita nello stomaco e nella gola. Ho bisogno di andare. Ho bisogno della verità.”
Source: Allegiant
“Faccio una piroetta e torno dentro, non mi farò rovinare la serata, ho preso i voti che meritavo, ho un ragazzo ricco, ho un’estate
davanti, e per chi ha la mia età, l’estate è come la messa, la chiesa, la riva del fiume a fine nuotata, la boccata d’aria dopo un viaggio a finestrini chiusi, è il paese che si veste a festa.”
Source: L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce
“Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.”
“Face a man with death, let him come out shining, and you might call his bravery simple. Face a small town boy with fame, love, and death, all before legal drinking age, and you will call it anything but simple.”
Source: Now I'm Here
“Face a man with death, let him come out shining, and you might call his bravery simple. Face a small town boy with fame, love, and death, all before legal drinking age, and you will never call his bravery simple.”
Source: Now I'm Here
“FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.”
“Face after face contorted in hate, men, women, children. Whatever lies had been voiced against me had clearly gained near-universal acceptance. I knew then that, regardless of what transpired here, my home was now lost to me. It wasn’t just that these people would never accept me, more that I would never forgive their gullibility.”
Source: Queen of Fire
“Face aux archipels du passé, solides et insubmersibles, le présent incertain et précaire perdait toute consistance. Le réel ne résistait pas aux reflux de la mémoire.”
Source: Je ne suis pas celle que je suis
“Face creams have gotten worse with the years, because clearly aging is the cream’s fault.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.”
“Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.”
“Face everyday with positive thoughts & God will do the rest for you. :)”
“Face fears with faith.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.”
Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)
“Face front, true believers!”
Source: Fantastic Four Masterworks Vol. 4
“Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.”
Source: Into the Hills: A Zane Johns Adventure