F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Flimsy petals of petunias, Waving amidst ferocious wintry wind. Challenging the wan winters each hour.........”
“Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.”
“Flinching at the heat, and with a careful index finger, she hooked the top of the spine and pulled the book from the shelf. She then did what she always did. She opened the book and tried to find the first page. But the only difficulty was that there was no first page. There were no words in the entire book. It was completely blank. Like the other books, this was the book of her future. But unlike the others, in this one that future was unwritten.
So, this was it. This was her life. Her root life.
And it was a blank page.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.”
“Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!”
Source: The microcosm, and other poems
“Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.”
“Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman all the insults that have ever been the lot of her sex. Faithless, mutable, fickle, he called her; devil, adulteress, deceiver; and the swirling waters took his words, and tossed at his feet a broken pot and a little straw.”
“Flint
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world’s desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.”
“Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.”
“Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.”
“Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint's kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign.”
“Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.”
“Flint", said Tanis gravely."I know you'll be terribly disappointed. But you've only got a cold. You're not dying.”
Source: Kindred Spirits
“Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.”
Source: Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character
“Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.”
Source: Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
“Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.”
“Flip a negative statement of jealousy into a positive statement about your values, goals and abilities? For example, “I am grateful I am someone who wants to be the best I can be, and who works hard to achieve my goals”.”
Source: Jealousy is the Moon
“Flip For Flop Lanturns Puzzle Facets Inna Sacred Light”
“Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?”
“Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.”
“Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.”
Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
“Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.”
“Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.
Harry: We're the same age, Draco.
Draco: I wear it better.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
“Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.”
“Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.”
Source: New Grub Street
“Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball game.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.”
“Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.”
“Flipping to the front, I caught Aiden's gaze and offered a sympathetic smile.
"Skittles?"
"Please."
I dumped some into his open palm, then picked out the green ones. Aiden grinned at me.
"You know I don't like the green ones?"
Shrugging, I popped them in my mouth.
"The few times I've seen you eat them, you leave the green ones behind."
Deacon popped his head between our seats.
"That's true love right there."
"That it is."
Aiden's gaze flicked to the road. I flushed like a little schoolgirl and focused on the remaining pieces of candy until Deacon drifted back into his seat. I handed all the red ones to Aiden.”
Source: Apollyon
“Flirt with many, date with intent, marry with wisdom.
Flirt if you must — it teaches you charm.
Date the one you love — it shows you your heart.
But marry the one who loves you deeply —
Because in marriage, love isn’t about who you chase,
But who stays, who sees you clearly, and still chooses you.
This isn’t a game of selection.
It’s not handy-picking from a crowd.
This is your destiny.
So don’t marry to impress the world.
Marry to build a world — with someone who’s already rooting for you.
This is a clarion call to be wise when choosing a wife.”
“flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.”
Source: But Will it Sell?
“Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.”
“Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier than a handshake, a little less intimate than a kiss. It's a way of saying hi, you look great, have a wonderful day. A tasteful flirtation, played out people who understand the rules, leave everyone feeling good and can perk up the bluest mood.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.”
“Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.”
Source: Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil
“Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.”
Source: But Will it Sell?
“Flirtation: attention without intention.”
“Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it.”
“Flirting is a "controversial art form" that leaves the intended either flattered, infatuated, creeped out or getting a restraining order.”
“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
“Flirting is conversational chemistry.”
“Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else. It's about seeing yourself through someone's eyes and realizing there is plenty to like about yourself, plenty of reasons someone might hang on your every word.”
Source: One True Loves
“Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.”
Source: The Clayborne Brides: One Pink Rose, One White Rose, One Red Rose
“Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
sinful.”
“Flirting with death is the spice of life.”
Source: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
“Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.”