F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.”
“Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the first tunnel when I realize what was so remarkable about that exchange. Peeta sounded like his old self, the one who could always think of the right thing to say when nobody else could... I glance back at him as he trudges along under his guards, Gale and Jackson, his eyes fixed on the ground, his shoulders hunched forward. So dispirited. But for a moment, he was really here.”
“Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.”
“Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.”
“Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.”
“Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.”
Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.”
“Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.”
“Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.”
“Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.”
“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.”
“Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world”
Source: On photography
“Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'”
Source: Obama's Wars
“Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.”
“Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.”
Source: Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir
“Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.”
“Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.”
“Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.”
“Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.”
“Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.”
“Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we should stop using them to serve search warrants for nonviolent crimes. They offer no margin for error.”
“Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually all of his adult life balancing his restrained homosexuality, which is bound together with his sensitivity to beauty and thus with his artistic vocation, against the demands of conventional society.”
“Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to have been right all along-and he deserves great credit for having been so reluctant to become involved when the energy-rich chemical intermediates began to be so fashionable. This reminds me of the aphorism: 'The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer'.”
“Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.”
“Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.”
“Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example...”
“Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.”
“Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.”
“Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”
“Finally, what I really want is to be happy in this moment, where the magic and miracles happen. Stay in the moment and all gifts are added as you breathe and take inspired action.”
“Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.”
“Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."”
“Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.”
“Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”
“Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.”
“Finally, you're right about one point, your entire way of thinking is predicted by what you're immersed in so you know you won't make a bad decision. You can make a bad decision but it's still in the good sphere normally if you work well. You're prepared to face a crew who wants to know everything and poses a hundred questions a minute, because you know you have good reflexes and can respond very quickly.”
“Finalmente compré un nuevo ordenador con la esperanza de que incluyera buenas ideas y excelentes tramas. En vano.”
Source: La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert
“Finalmente Daniel è quello che dovrebbe essere: un bambino allegro su una giostra, un bambino che si scrolla di dosso responsabilità e brutti pensieri e appare pronto a lanciarsi nel mondo con tutta la sua inesperienza, con il candore di chi, il mondo, deve ancora viverlo. Lui non ha mai avuto questa possibilità, lui è stato subito proiettato in un contesto di adulti fatto di psicosi e sensi di colpa, un contesto dove si può pure decidere che sperare non serve più. Ma questo per un bambino non è giusto. Un bambino non dovrebbe mai scendere da una giostra, dovrebbe sempre avere un altro giro a disposizione.”
Source: Il primo giorno della mia vita
“Finalmente, do grupo de Bataille, no qual Blanchot se forma, Lacan retira uma maneira alternativa e disruptiva de olhar para as ciências humanas. Ao repetir a estratégia barroca de fazer uma ciência sobre aquilo que a ciência moderna exclui para poder se constituir como método e programa de investigação, Bataille propõe a noção de heterologia como um tipo de antropologia baseada no estudo do que uma sociedade teve que excluir e negar para se constituir como tal. Essa parte exilada, da qual não conseguimos nem nos separar e que tampouco conseguimos integrar, será chamada de parte maldita, embrião do futuro conceito de objeto a em Lacan.”
Source: O estilo de Lacan
“Finalmente, Huxley intentaba decirnos que lo que afligía a la gente en “Un mundo feliz” no era que estaban riendo en lugar de pensar, sino que no sabían de qué se reían y por qué habían dejado de pensar.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Finalmente, los monstruos, con sus extrañas y extraordinarias apariencias, niegan la perfección del mundo y del orden establecido. En definitiva, los monstruos proyectan lo que los individuos y las sociedades niegan y temen de ellos mismos y, por lo tanto, mirando al monstruo, nos vemos a nosotros mismos y los defectos individuales y sociales que consideramos despreciables".”
Source: El Monstruo Humanouna Introducción A La Ficción De Los Asesinos En Serie
“Finalmente o prazer. Farrapos de fantasias eróticas de toda uma vida, numa espiral onde rodopiavam emoções, sensações, esquecimento próprio, loucura, aceitação do animal em mim, do grito, da fome, da liberdade de ser e saber que se é. Apesar. Mau grado. Não obstante. Que se lixe.”
Source: A Alma Trocada
“Finaly, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
-Ephesians 6:10-11”
Source: Holy Bible: The New King James Version
“Finance capital, in its maturity, is the highest stage of the
concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the
capitalist oligarchy. It is the climax of the dictatorship of the
magnates of capital. At the same time it makes the dictatorship of the
capitalist lords of one country increasingly incompatible with the
capitalist interests of other countries, and the internal domination of
capital increasingly irreconcilable with the interests of the mass of
the people, exploited by finance capital but also summoned into battle
against it. In the violent clash of these hostile interests the
dictatorship of the magnates of capital will finally be transformed into
the dictatorship of the proletariat.
[p. 370]”
Source: Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
“Finance capital subordinates the Canadian State more and more directly to its interests and control. State-monopoly capitalism — the integration or merging of the interests of finance capital with the state — is a new stage in the extension of corporate control to all sectors of economic and political life. The government, while seemingly independent of specific corporate interests, has become predominantly the political instrument of a small group comprising the top monopoly capitalists for exercising control over the rest of society. Finance capital uses the state to provide orders, capital and subsidies, and to secure foreign markets and investments. Monopoly capital supports the expansion of the state sector — both services and enterprises — when that serves its interests, and at other times it uses the state to cut back and privatize. The state is also used to redistribute income and wealth in favour of monopoly interests through the tax system, and through legislation to drive down wages and weaken the trade union movement. State-monopoly capitalism undermines the basis of traditional bourgeois democracy. The subordination of the state to the interests of finance capital erodes the already limited role of elected government bodies, federal, provincial and local. Big business openly intervenes in the electoral process on its own behalf, and also indirectly through a network of pro-corporate institutes and think tanks. It uses its control of mass media to influence the ideas and attitudes of the people, and to blatantly influence election results. It corrupts the democratic process through the buying of politicians and officials. It tramples on the political right of the Canadian people to exercise any meaningful choice, thereby promoting widespread public alienation and cynicism about the electoral process.”
Source: Canada's Future Is Socialism Program of the Communist Party of Canada
“Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because it's the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth.”
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”