F Quotes
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“Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.”
“Fictions are not make-believe. We have come to understand this better through the medium of sci-fi, as so much of what begins as a futuristic fantasy becomes an ordinary part of the world we know.
Fiction is much more than social-realist cut-outs of contemporary life. More than representation. Fiction declares and debates inner realities that gradually press forward into our outer circumstances. We catch up with our dreams.”
Source: One Aladdin Two Lamps
“Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.”
“Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.”
“Ficámos de novo sem assunto. Olhei à minha volta. O branco é triste como o negro, nunca antes o tinha sentido. (...) Não lhe acariciei a mão, nem lhe pus a minha sobre a testa, num gesto de consolação. Não fiz nada disso. E devia-o ter feito. Mas que a tristeza me dominou, que apeteceu chorar, por ver o meu pai tão doente, isso era verdade. Ele tê-lo-ia compreendido?
Decerto é ilusão julgarmos que outras pessoas podem compartilhar dos nossos sentimentos através de simples palavras. Se eu dissesse que vejo na memória um homem encolhido na cadeira, metido num fato largo demais como se não pertencesse, com as mãos amarelo torcidas sobre o ventre e o olhar fixo no chão, alguém o verá como eu o vi?”
Source: O Mundo Em Que Vivi
“Fidatevi e passate del tempo con chi vi fa sorridere spesso, con chi sa guardarvi, farvi sentire meglio. La vita è breve. Datele qualità!”
“FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.”
“Fiddlesticks!” Rall replied. “These clodhoppers will not attack us, and should they do so, we will simply fall on them and rout them.”58 (on describing that they had nothing to fear from the COlonists of New Jersey before the night of December 25, 1776; when Washington and his men crossed the Deleware.)”
“Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.”
“FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.”
“Fidel Castro alitenda haki katika taifa lake ndiyo maana Mungu akamsaidia yeye na wananchi wake. Ijapokuwa ameondoka, lakini fikira zake sahihi zitaendelea kuwepo. Taifa la Kuba Mungu ataendelea kulibariki, kwa sababu fikira za Wakuba ni fikira za Fidel Castro.”
“Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.”
“Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement.”
“Fidel Castro gave it all to make his nation serviceable to all who desire real change. That's why I love Fidel Castro, and that's why he will never die.”
“Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge.”
“Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do.”
“Fidel Castro is loved down into the children. The Revolution won't die!”
“Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.”
“Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked... and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that's part of the Castro spirit.”
“Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.”
“Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents determined to overthrow him, survived the collapse of the communist bloc that sustained him and outlived many of those who wanted to replace him. For those reasons, he will go down in history as among the world's most skillful politicians, even if his achievements largely die with him.”
“Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.”
“Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years.”
“Fidel Castro was a born rebel.”
“Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.”
“Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with "religiosity"; not with prayer and fasting and charity in that sense, but he gave it all, to make humanity better.”
“Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.”
“Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world.”
“Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.”
“Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.”
“Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.”
“Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.”
Source: The Medusa Frequency
“Fidelity is for phonographs”
Source: Humboldt's Gift
“Fidelity is often just a lack of options.”
Source: Lupii trecutului
“Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.”
“Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.”
“Fidelity is the sister of justice.”
Source: The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Two Languages Will Admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein the Words of the Latin Text are Put in Their Grammatical Order ... with Notes ... The Whole Adapted Tothe Capacities of Youth at School, as Well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson ... Revised by a Gentleman Well Skill'd in this Sort of Literature at London [i.e. Samuel Patrick]. The Second Edition. [With a
“Fidelity is the total quality of an experience, including a sense of exclusiveness and aura. Convenience is simply how easy something is to get, which often means a low price and ubiquitousness. A super-fidelity product or service would lose its luster and quality if it's pushed too hard toward convenience. A super-convenient product or service would start to get expensive and exclusive if it moved toward higher fidelity, which would naturally undermine its convenience.”
“Fidelity is wearing a mask these days
The sun cannot recognize his own rays”
“Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.”
“Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.”
“Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace”
“Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.”
“Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.”
Source: The Journalist And The Murderer
“Fidelity to the truth is the obligation of all those who claim to love it. It is the unseen halo that accompanies those that seek to share their light, it is the reason why we can still believe in good and claim our humanity. It is the only condition that gives us the power by which we may love unconditionally.”
“Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.”
“Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.”
“Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art