F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Five days after the food was Easter Sunday. The only church that had not been flooded in the neighborhood invited everyone to services, come as you are. Mom decreed we were going to church. "Church!?" I thought. What in the world was she thinking? We had been cleaning up flood mud for three days with no water to clean ourselves up. Mom insisted. She said that Calvary Baptist was going to allow women into the sanctuary in pants and that was something we were not going to miss. (In 1977 this was earthshattering for sure.) I guess we would take a stand for women's equality!”
Source: Appalachian Magazine's Mountain Voice: 2017: A Collection of Memories, Histories, and Tall Tales of Appalachia
“Five days after the world found out that her name was Fouzia Azeem, Qandeel received a legal notice from Fayyaz Leghari, a lawyer in Gadai, a town 20 kilometres from Shah Sadar Din. He wanted her to stop using ‘Baloch’ as her surname or claim to be a Baloch woman. ‘You have no relation (sic) with any Baloch family or tribe,’ Leghari wrote.”
Source: The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch
“Five days of life practicing humanity is far more meaningful than fifty years of life practicing indifference.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer.”
“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
“Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.”
“Five friends I had and two of them snakes.”
“Five generations a murderer, Lothar Teryan, five generations of dying children, starved mothers, unending laments. There is nought bad enough for you!”
Source: Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel
“Five girls sat beside, and upon the branches of, the oldest apple tree in the orchard, its huge trunk making a fine seat and support; and whenever the May breeze blew, the pink blossoms tumbled down like snow, coming to rest in their hair and on their skirts. The afternoon sunlight dappled green and silver and gold through the leaves in the apple orchard.”
Source: Stardust
“Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.”
Source: Later Love Letters of a Musician
“Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were answered in their defeat!”
Source: Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
“Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water.”
Source: Sabriel
“Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.”
“Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).”
“Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.”
“Five heads are definitely better than one when they're thinking in the same perspective. I think that you really need to have people that you trust. And for me, trust comes from that synchronizing, that same-mindedness.”
“Five heads roll to the floor. Their bodies collapse soon after, and I raise a brow, cursing them silently. They should be doing a better job. It should not be this easy to take them out, sneak through the palace, and break into the queen’s bedchamber. If I were—
Nope. Not even going there.”
Source: Beyond the Faerie Gate
“Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.”
“Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.”
Source: Pattern Recognition
“five.
How we swallow lies in hopes
they’ll cauterize wounds from the inside.”
Source: Love Letters to Ghosts
“Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.”
“Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.”
Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”
“Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.”
“Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.”
“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”
Source: The Bach Flower Remedies
“Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?”
“Five hundred years from now nobody will care about your nationality, they'll only remember your humanity.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Five hundred years from now, who'll know the difference?!”
“Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.”
“Five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you're fall.”
“Five interconnecting rings for the “Faster, higher, stronger” of Cloud Computing System.
The “Cloud Computing Rings” represent: Performance, Resilience, Data Sovereignty, Interoperability and Reversibility of a successfully integrated Cloud System.”
“Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.”
Source: Belle: A Retelling of
“Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.”
“Five letters. A name. The word that starts the war.
Poppy.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely.”
“Five little rich tourists sink in a sub,
Wallets open without limit on a search-n-rescue op.
A 1000 migrants die each year tryna cross the sea,
Borders tighten in sheer fear with no show of mercy.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Five major things to protect at any cost include our very life, health, relationships, properties, and freedom. If it is God-given then it should be protected.”
“Five men and two women, strangers to one another on the eve of that final growing season, now bound by the unspoken promise that the least of them was greater than the sum of all of them.”
Source: The Infinite Sea
“Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.”
“Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the Holocaust for 60 years and will have to keep paying up for another 100 years. Why then is the fate of the Palestinians no issue here?”
“Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.”
“Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.”
Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity
“Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.”
“Five minutes ago escapes him
as he chases 1934, unaware
of the present beauty out the window,
the banks of windswept snow—
or his wife, humming in the kitchen,
or the twilit battles in Korea, or me
when he remembers that I am his son.”
“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
“Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.”
Source: The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires
“Five minutes later she came back to the car wearing low fitted gray pants, high-heeled black boots, a white T-shirt, and a long black nylon coat that flapped behind her like a graceful set of wings. She had on eyeliner and her hair was pulled back into a severe ponytail. She looked like a rock star or a publicist for rock stars.”
Source: Eat Cake
“Five minutes later, we were rolling around on the helipad as he tried to muscle his way out of my armlock, after slamming me onto the helipad. “I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction,” Saiman said, his voice dry. I looked up. He was standing a few feet away. “Do enlighten us.” Curran tried to roll into me to break the lock. Oh no you don’t. “You both think violence is foreplay.”
Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel
“Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition