F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library.”
Source: A Place to Hang the Moon
“Fica ao critério de cada um o próprio administrar-se.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Fica cada vez mais forte em mim a ideia de que, para interferirmos no futuro, precisamos agir no presente, começando por nós mesmos.”
Source: Como salvar o futuro: Ações para o presente
“fica difícil levar uma pessoa a série sabendo que ela não checa as fontes, que não pondera a origem da informação que compartilha.”
Source: Ciência para não cientistas: como ser mais racional em um mundo cada vez mais irracional, vol. 1 (Bolsonarismo) (Inteligência Artificial, Democracia, e Pensamento Crítico)
“Ficar concentrado em relação aos outros significa, antes de tudo, ser capaz de ouvir. Muitas pessoas ouvem as outras, e até dão conselhos, sem ouvir realmente. Não levam a sério o que a outra pessoa fala, nem também levam a sério suas próprias respostas. Em consequência, a conversação deixa-as cansadas. Têm a ilusão de que ficariam ainda mais fatigadas se ouvissem com concentração. A verdade, porém, é o oposto. Qualquer atividade, se feita de maneira concentrada, toma-nos mais despertos”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Ficar longe dos ambientes tóxicos e evitar gatilhos são duas maneiras de controlar a transposição de afetos por meio de sentimentos sociais homogêneos, vigiados e harmônicos, ao modo de paisagens internas e externas de condomínios artificiais. Ocorre que discursos protetivos como esses nos protegem também da angústia que cerca o desencadeamento ou o gatilho amoroso, que é igualmente imprevisível, surpreendente, perigoso e indutor de afetos incontroláveis. Por outro lado, seria difícil pensar em uma forma de vida amorosa sem momentos tóxicos, que envolvessem desavenças, infortúnios, repetições de equívocos e mal-entendidos.”
Source: A arte de amar
“ficar na mão do acaso é muita falta de responsabilidade e respeito consigo.”
Source: Como Ter Relacionamentos Que Dão Certo
“Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.”
“Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.”
“Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.”
“Fichte thinks that the mutual recognition of one another as free beings belongs among the transcendental conditions of self-consciousness itself.”
“Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.”
“Fickle fortune favors the fearless few, for fate finds fools first.”
“Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.”
“FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Fico de palhoça na madruga porque mereço recreio.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Fico na frente da televisão para aumentar o meu ódio. Quando minha cólera está diminuindo e eu perco a vontade de cobrar o que me devem eu sento na frente da televisão e em pouco tempo meu ódio volta.”
Source: O Cobrador
“Ficou claro neste percurso que nós, europeus, nos conhecemos mal. Os clichês abundam, e misturamos países apenas porque são próximos geograficamente, num raciocínio que não faz justiça a cada uma das identidades políticas do xadrez europeu.”
Source: O Lado B da Europa
“Ficou olhando o teto e pensando em por que, se queria aquilo por tanto tempo, estava se sentindo pior do que ontem. Ou tão mal quanto — era um sentimento familiar de incômodo, de que não havia sido suficiente, de que nunca seria, e de que precisava de algo mais claro.”
Source: Dona: um conto freudiano
“Fictie is de plaats waar de mens soeverein kan zijn. In de spiegel van de verbeelding kan hij zijn vrijheid verwezenlijken, in tegenstelling tot in de werkelijkheid.”
“Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.”
Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
“Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.”
“Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the flaws in a piece of fiction are, unhappily, so often also the flaws of the writer.”
“Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.”
“Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”
Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.”
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.”
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.”
“Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.”
“Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.”
“Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.”
“Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.”
“Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.”
“Fiction as a means of avoiding fact is the fiction of fiction.”
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous--so full of hope. They exist! And this is the only fundamental truth of fiction.”
“Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.”
“Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.”
“Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.”
“Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal”
Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
“Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.”
“Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starving? That's true, but that is only true because the conditions we live under are completely wrong - that should not be true, and it is. And in something like Sarah Polley's film, her fictions deliver so much truth. The retellings and the simulations and the theatrical aspects are what deliver all the truth.”
“Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.”
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
And while we're on the subject, I'd like to say a few words about escapism. I hear the term bandied about as if it's a bad thing. As if "escapist" fiction is a cheap opiate used by the muddled and the foolish and the deluded, and the only fiction that is worthy, for adults or for children, is mimetic fiction, mirroring the worst of the world the reader finds herself in.
If you were trapped in an impossible situation, in an unpleasant place, with people who meant you ill, and someone offered you a temporary escape, why wouldn't you take it? And escapist fiction is just that: fiction that opens a door, shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in control, are with people you want to be with(and books are real places, make no mistake about that); and more importantly, during your escape, books can also give you knowledge about the world and your predicament, give you weapons, give you armour: real things you can take back into your prison. Skills and knowledge and tools you can use to escape for real.
As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”
“Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet".”
Source: Bullet
“Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try," Ernest Hemingway in "Blast".”
Source: Bullet
“Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.”
Source: The Devil's Arithmetic