F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Five minutes of communication can save a year's worth of turmoil and misunderstanding.”
“Five minutes of gratitude can brighten your entire day.”
“Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.”
Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Five minutes, that's all it takes. Take a step; take a leap; take action. Embrace joy. Embrace life.”
Source: How to Find Joy in Five Minutes a Day: Inspiring Ideas to Boost Your Mood Every Day
“Five minutes were supposed to pass. Instead, time aged into years.I wonder, did her clock fail, or did mine fall out of rhythm with my heart?”
“Five months later, he still wasn't over it. After seeing so many guys dumped during deployments - and now having experienced it himself - he'd banished any thought of women from his mind.”
Source: Sharp Shootin' Cowboy
“Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.”
“Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?”
“Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.”
“Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.”
“Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind”
“Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.”
“Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.”
“Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.”
“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.”
“Five pieces every girl needs in her closet are; a great pair of a jeans, a good black heel, a great little black dress, tank tops for layering, and a jacket that can be worn day or night.”
“Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.”
“Five pounds of crawfish in a metal bucket were soon placed down. The smell of lemongrass, Old Bay seasoning, and fish sauce hit the siblings all at once, and they breathed in the familiar, comforting scent. The coalescent beauty of a Viet-Cajun seafood boil was the magnum opus of the American South.”
Source: The Family Recipe
“Five Qualities
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Respect, Love, Truth, Justice, and Humanity;
Respect: Consider others better than you
Love: Care and sacrifice without expectation
Truth: Courage to face, or bear, and fight lies
Justice: The belief in equality without distinctions
Humanity: Empathy, sympathy, morality, and tolerance
Whenever, you reap such qualities, in your character; indeed, you will sow consequently that, as peace and harmony, without meetings, resolutions, and wars.”
“Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.”
“Five rules to follow to be a great leader:
1. Be curious.
2. Serve others.
3. Be purpose oriented.
4. Be adaptive.
5. Be positive.”
“Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.”
Source: Nice Guys Finish Last
“Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.”
“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.”
“Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My body's a beast. A beast that's been held back too long.”
Source: Going Underground
“Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.”
“five severed fingers do not make a hand”
Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“Five shall go west to the goddess in chains, One shall be lost in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus shows the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan's curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent's hand”
Source: Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
“Five sisters. That must have been hell."
"Only when they forced me to dress up like a girl and play Amy whenever they reenacted Little Women"
Giggling as quietly as possible, I say, "You had to play Amy? Why didn't they let you be Laurie?"
"My sister Beth insisted on playing Laurie. Figure that one out. One of the March sisters had her very own name, but no sir, she had to be a boy. I had to pretend, dressed as a girl, to marry my own sister dressed as boy." His laugh is good-natured. "I believe the word thats coming to your mind is disturbing.”
Source: Violins of Autumn
“Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.”
“Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.”
“Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.”
“Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Five things to do in February:
-Write a Poem
-Read a good Book
-Donate to a Charity
-Take a Yoga class
-Pay forward”
“Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.”
“Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.”
“Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.”
“Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.”
“Five trolls in a dra-a-a-a-ag,' the four-inch man sang from my shoulder. 'Four purple condoms, three French ticklers, two horny vamps and a succubus in the snow.”
“Five Truths
about
Fear Truth
1. The fear
will never
go away as
long as I continue
to grow. Truth 2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it. Truth 3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it. Truth 4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else. Truth 5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.”
“Five Truths About Your Inner Voice:
1. It is here, always available, wherever you are, however you feel, whatever you have done.
2. It is solely on your side.
3. It knows what's absolutely right for you.
4. It is your friend, your ally, your guide, your ultimate supporter.
5. It is always with you and for you.
Whenever you're feeling perplexed, uneasy, anxious, mad, frustrated, sick, or any other other way you don't want to feel, ask your Inner Voice. Listen.”
Source: Trust Your Life: Forgive Yourself and Go After Your Dreams
“Five Ups of life: Buckle up, Start up, Keep it up, Don’t give up, Cheer up.”
Source: You By You
“Five ways to develop empathy:
-Listen actively
-Explore differences
-Read fiction
-Practice mindfulness
-Know why”
“Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.”