F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.”
“Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?”
“Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.”
Source: If You Come Softly
“Fiftey years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when your a sweet,old granny,dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actully"-he held up a hand,interrupting Kitty's cry of protest-"no,that's wrong. My projection is incorrect." "Good." "You'll never be a sweet old granny. Let's say,'sad,lonely old biddy' instead.”
“Fifth and finally, do nothing impulsively. Give God an opportunity to speak. Until He does, stall for time and concentrate on the first four approaches.”
“Fifth Cosmic Seal:
(Liber 003 - Seal of Tuzassotama) One who has received this Cosmic Seal is mystically empowered to proclaim himself as "God, Lord, Universal Master or God-Incarnate" on earth and he controls all spirits of the occult kingdoms.”
Source: Devil's Inception
“Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You'd pushed futility at Public School 38 so long by then you expected the building itself would be embarrassed and quit. The ones who couldn't read still couldn't, the teachers were teaching the same thing for the fifth time now and refusing to meet your eyes, some kids had been left back twice and were the size of janitors. The place was a cage for growing, nothing else. School lunch turned out to be the five-year-plan, the going concern. You couldn't be left back from fish sticks and sloppy joes. You'd retain at the least two thousand half-pint containers of vitamin D-enriched chocolate milk.
Two black guys from the projects, twins, were actually named Ronald and Donald MacDonald. The twins themselves only shrugged, couldn't be made to agree it was incredible.”
Source: The Fortress of Solitude
“Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.”
“Fifth wheel employees are those who are a result of the mistake made by the human resources wing, i.e. by recruiting wrong person to the wrong job just to fill in the vacancy and then expect better performance. Further such an employee is unable to put in his best and is just an additional mass available within the organization.”
“Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“Fifty Aristotle’s equals one King Solomon.”
“Fifty dorcas they’re setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They’re too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can’t slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)”
Source: The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice
“Fifty-five, K9-1 station EOW.”
End of Watch, I put the mic down.
“K9-1 station,” the dispatcher replies. “Thank you, Brag.”
Source: Werewolf: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog
“Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim.
And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.”
“Fifty?” Harry gasped.
“Fifty points each,” said Professor McGonagall, breathing heavily.
“Professor — please —”
“You can’t —”
“Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do, Potter. I’ve never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.”
“Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold.”
“Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.”
Source: God Built
“Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.”
Source: Bodyguard
“Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.”
“Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.”
“Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.”
“Fifty percent discount on new wars starters; armies for rent; please contact warmongers for global peace.”
“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.”
“Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.”
“Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.”
“Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.”
“Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.”
“Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.”
“Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.”
“Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.”
“Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergency.”
“Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.”
“Fifty percent of the world's population lives in cities. In a couple of decades, 70 percent of the world's population will be living in cities. Cities are where the problem is. Cities are where the solution is, where creativity exists to address the challenges and where they have most impact. This is why, in 2005, the C40 was founded, an organization of cities that address climate change. It started with 18 cities; now it's 91. Cities simply are the key to saving the planet.”
“Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.”
“Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.”
“Fifty Shades Of Grey proved you can write about a dude choking women and shoving stuff up their butts but heaven forbid if you tell a legitimate joke about it. Sure I doubled the number of feminists who hate me, but I also doubled the number of shows I have on TV. No regrets.”
“Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.”
“Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.”
“Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.”
“Fifty Ways to Fuel a Conversation
1.Be the first to say hello.
2.Introduce yourself to others.
3.Take risks and anticipate success.
4.Remember your sense of humor.
5.Practice different ways of starting a conversation.”
Source: The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills and Leave a Positive Impression!
“Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.”
“Fifty years after landing on the Moon, we have learned that the Space industry is biologically toxic to over seven billion people on planet Earth.”
“Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.”
“Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.”
“Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.”
“Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.”
“Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.”
“Fifty years ago, great schools like the University of California and the City University of New York - as well as many state colleges - were tuition free. Today college is unaffordable for many working class families. For the sake of our economy and millions of Americans, we must make higher education more affordable.”