F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Few things inspire me more than a timely smile from someone I truly admire.”
“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”
“Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.”
“Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions
“Few things make me as happy as seeing my clients years later living out the dreams we once spoke of and designed strategies to fulfill.”
“Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Few things move as quietly as the future.”
“Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.”
Source: The Fall of Berlin 1945
“Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.”
“Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain”
Source: DON JUAN
“Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'”
“Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.”
“Few things will bring you greater pleasure than accomplishing that which others have told you could not be done.”
“Few things worth having can be got easily.”
Source: Prince of Thorns
“Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.”
“Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.”
“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.”
Source: The Machine Stops
“Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
“Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.”
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Few voices are beyond the comprehension of ones known vocabulary. And in order to understand these voices one needs to learn the language of emotions and feelings. Without being familiar with this dialect, the beauty of these voices can never be interpreted by most of us.”
Source: They Loved in 2075!
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
“Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.”
Source: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.”
“Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives.”
Source: Chronicles of a Radical Hag
“Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength”
Source: The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929
“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
Source: The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays
“Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.”
“Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power
“Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
“Few words are more chilling when put together than make friends. The command to pair bond sent ice water through Stevie’s veins. She wanted falling rocks. But she knew what would happen if she didn’t do the talking—her parents would. And if her parents started, anything could happen.”
Source: Truly, Devious
“Few words find their way
Land deep within your being
A place which is beyond
Remembering and forgetting
Your mind may reject
But something else
Rejoices in it!”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one. While we might admire the serenity of the lion in repose, the tribesman’s untroubled acceptance of his fate, or the child’s wholehearted involvement in the present, they cannot offer a model for resolving our predicament. The order based on innocence is now beyond our grasp. Once the fruit is plucked from the tree of knowledge, the way back to Eden is barred forever.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”
“Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God’s masterpiece?”
Source: The Glory of the Garden
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses spectacles, sober tie and dark two-piece suit, he resembled a local bank manager, accountant or shop owner.”
Source: Death of an Officer
“Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are usually treated as collections of objects or volumes, not as actors. Yet the organization itself is active. It is doing something.”
“Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.”
“Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.”
“Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.”
“Few years ago I did 30m in 3.7 seconds. Whether that makes me quicker than [Usain] Bolt, I don't know! We all know Usain is the best.”
“Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.”