F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“First, let’s look at how useless [all the depression, anxiety and irritation we put ourselves through by always seeing suffering as unfavourable, something to be avoided at all costs] is. If we can do something to solve a problem, then there is no need to worry or be unhappy about it; if we can’t, then it doesn’t help to worry or be unhappy about it either.”
Source: Transforming Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment
“First let us clearly understand the position of monism: As manifested beings we appear to be separate, but our reality is one, and the less we think of ourselves as separate from that One, the better for us. The more we think of ourselves as separate from the Whole, the more miserable we become. From this monistic principle we get at the basis of ethics, and I venture to say that we cannot get any ethics from anywhere else.”
Source: Practical Vedanta
“First Lieutenant Haskell of Gibbon’s staff remembered the exultation of that heady moment. “The Rebel cry has ceased, and the men of the Union begin to shout there, under the smoke, and their lines to advance. See the Rebels are breaking! They are in confusion in all our front!—The wave has rolled upon the rock, and the rock has smashed it. Let us shout too!”33”
Source: Gettysburg: An Alternate History
“First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.”
“First lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.”
Source: Lost For Words
“First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.”
“First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
“First love can break you. But it can also save you.”
Source: Hold Back The Stars
“First love comes and goes. It’s fickle in nature. They’re like the wind that sneaks up on you on a mid-summer’s day, only to leave before autumn sets in. It’s a transitional sort of love. It helps to prepare you for the next stage of your life. It exposes you to what love could be; but not necessarily, on what love should be or is. It gives you experience. Insight. A point of reference. And once gone, it leaves a lasting impression on you, along with sweet and bitter memories. But true love, that’s something else in its entirety. Unlike first love, true love has no time limits. It’s everlasting. It’s enduring. It comes out of the blue, but when it comes, it stays put. While first love might have been a traveling gust of wind, true love is the blossoming of a flower. It starts off as a seed, but in time, it grows to become something rare and beautiful. Something to be admired and cherished. But most importantly, it’s permanent, so long as you care and tend to it properly.”
Source: Cupid's Serenade
“First Love
I ne’er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.
My face turned pale as deadly pale,
My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail?
My life and all seemed turned to clay.
And then my blood rushed to my face
And took my eyesight quite away,
The trees and bushes round the place
Seemed midnight at noonday.
I could not see a single thing,
Words from my eyes did start—
They spoke as chords do from the string,
And blood burnt round my heart.
Are flowers the winter’s choice?
Is love’s bed always snow?
She seemed to hear my silent voice,
Not love's appeals to know.
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling-place
And can return no more.”
Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”
“First love is alright, as far as it goes. Last love – that’s the one I’m interested in.”
“First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.”
Source: Afterworlds
“First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.”
Source: The Brandons, and others
“First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.”
“First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.”
“First love is not always happy. It can sometimes be like a terrible illness.”
Source: Rebecca
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory.”
“First love is so special," she says. "You'll never forget it.”
Source: My Dark Vanessa
“First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.”
“First love will approach, caress and then embrace you. Afterwards, it will start pulling itself out slowly. Leaving you with its opposite feelings; which is hate.”
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.”
Source: The House In Paris
“First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.”
Source: Works
“First loves were powerful and private,and they stayed with you for a very long time. A lifetime.(...) There would always be a small,intimate piece of your heart tucked away for the person you loved first.”
Source: Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
“First make peace inside yourself.”
“First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.”
“First make your business itself a brand and then every product you create will be accepted as a brand.”
“First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.”
“First man: "How are your children?"
Second man: "Compared to what?"
Equality as a Moral Ideal”
“First man: "How are your children?"
Second man: "Compared to what?"
Harry Frankfurt, Equality as a Moral Ideal”
“First master the fundamentals.”
“First, measure the right things, and then measure them right.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.”
“First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Than mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.”
“First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up”
“First, my books need to breathe–in alphabetical order, by genre.”
Source: What I Like About You
“First my mother, now my sister… Why did the people I love end up hurting me?”
“First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.”
“First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.”
“First Nations community development focuses neither on capitalist profits nor communist controls, but on community outcomes.”
“First Nations development challenges capitalist and communist structures made for elites, creating paths toward genuine community success.”
“First Nations entrepreneurship moves beyond capitalist profit motives and communist bureaucracy, embracing success defined by community wellbeing.”
“First, never let your opponent figure out what you’re doing—deception at all times. Second, always leave yourself a way out.”
Source: The Gathering Elements
“First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then, after the war, it became one among half a dozen world cities. Today it has the appearance of standing alone, as the center of culture in the part of the world that still tries to be civilized.”
Source: Think Back on Us
“First night in the barracks. Moyshe Ettinger tells us how he saved himself and cannot forgive himself. The evening prayer is recited and Kaddish is set for the dead.”
Source: The Last Jew of Treblinka
“First no tooth fairy
then no santa
and no god
and then your parents are only human
your government is corrupt
and the universe is a hologram.”
“First Observe mind without attachment until you come to a place of Being Ness. Then you discover the space of Being Ness that is released from personhood. Then observe the sense of Being Ness which lets you know you exist. Even with suffering”