F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.”
“Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then we woke up many decades later, and we realized that food was engineered to make us fat. And I think that such companies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are doing the same thing with the stuff that we ingest through our brains. They're attempting to addict us, and they're addicting us on the basis of data.”
“Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.”
“Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.”
“Fifty years from now, I will not be remembered for how much money I earned, the type of home I lived in or the car I drove, but on whether I made a difference to someone's life.”
“Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.”
“Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.”
“Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.”
“Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.”
“Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I'm dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it's great, I'm not dead, so I get to see it.”
“Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.”
Source: I, Robot
“Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.”
“Fifty-fifty marriages are an impossibility. They do not work. They cannot work.
In marriage someone has to be the final decision maker.
Someone has to delegate responsibility, and God has ordained that this should be the husband.”
“Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.”
Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays
“Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.”
“Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.”
“Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.”
“Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.”
“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”
“Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.”
“Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.”
“Fig. 1.06: Initializing a variable to a new object, using a constructor, and realizing I was 30 years old when I wrote the first edition of this book, oh my god I am so old where did the time and my youth go!?”
Source: ServiceNow Development Handbook - 4th Edition: A compendium of ServiceNow "NOW" platform development and architecture pro-tips, guidelines, and best practices
“Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.”
“Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.”
“Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.”
“FIGARO. I’d say that the nonsense that finds its way into print only matters to the people who would like to ban it; that without the freedom to criticize, praise is meaningless”
Source: The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
“FIGARO. I was poor and people looked down on me. I showed some brains and people hated me. Now, with a pretty wife and money…
BARTHOLO [laughing]. People will rush to be your friend.
FIGARO. They will?
BARTHOLO. I know them.”
Source: The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
“Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.”
“FIGARO. Of course. Ever since people started noticing that in time yesterday’s inanity turns into today’s wisdom, and that little old lies, planted haphazardly, grow into vast and mighty truths, there have been countless varieties! Truths you know but cannot reveal, for not every truth is suitable for telling. Truths you repeat but don’t believe, for not every truth is worth believing.”
Source: The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
“FIGARO. Such a fantastic chain of events! How did it all happen to me? Why those things and not others? Who pointed them in my direction? Having no choice but to travel a road I was not aware I was following, and which I will get off without wanting to, I have strewn it with as many flowers as my good humour has permitted. But when I say my good humour, how can I know if it is any more mine than all the other bits of me, nor what this ‘me’ is that I keep trying to understand: first, an unformed bundle of indefinable parts, then a puny, weak-brained runt, a dainty frisking animal, a young man with a taste for pleasure and appetites to match, turning his hand to all trades to survive—sometimes master, sometimes servant as chance dictated, ambitious from pride, hard-working from necessity, but always happy to be idle! An orator when it was safe to speak out, a poet in my leisure hours, a musician as the situation required, in love in crazy fits and bursts. I’ve seen it all, done it all, had it all. Then the bubble burst and I was too disillusioned… Disillusioned!”
Source: The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
“Fight a good fight, so that when all is said and done, you can still feel proud.”
Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes
“Fight against anything that is not right, and do not be complacent about the injustice you see with your eyes.”
Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes
“Fight against illiteracy.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Fight against insurmountable odds and conquer. You were born to conquer.”
Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes
“Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.”
“Fight against what you are complaining about. You cannot win by just complaining and doing nothing about it.”
Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes
“Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you... Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeing horseman in the field of battle.”
“Fight against your own fate!!”
Source: One Piece, Volume 8: I Won't Die
“Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“Fight all you want against The Controllors, yet it will not matter since in every possible event they win, but at a cost.* They will do whatever it costs to keep you here instead of letting you cross to a Higher Frequency. They will push your fears and anger towards them so that they can feed off you. ”
* The Dark Ones Knows”
Source: Illuminatis The Ones and The Shadows: Book III - Edited Edition
“Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.”
Source: Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions
“Fight and flight in accord. Which one is happening is subject to change without notice.”
Source: A Professional's Guide to Ending Violence Quickly: How Bouncers, Bodyguards, and Other Security Professionals Handle Ugly Situations
“Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.”
“Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.”
“Fight Apathy! ... or don't.”
“Fight as brave lions for sacred inclusivity, not for saffronication as domesticated cows.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Fight as brave lions for sacred inclusivity,
not for saffronication as domesticated cows.
Fight for justice, rejuvenated by reason,
not for prejudice, decreed by apeman vows.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.”
“Fight back, but do not fight them. Fight for a better world.”
Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes