F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For 60 years you gave chance to Shasaks, now I request you to give a Sevak 60 months. I say give me 60 months and we will give you a life of peace and happiness.”
“For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.”
“For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand that what makes our economy function is what we call the rule of law, and what is true domestically is also true internationally. It is important to have rules by which we govern our relations with other countries.”
“For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.”
“For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.”
“For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.”
“For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.”
“For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?”
“For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for firsthand experience, almost everything we knew was passed on by word of mouth. As in the children’s game “Telephone,” over tens and hundreds of generations, information would slowly be distorted and lost.
Books changed all that. Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and not just those in power; to contemplate — with the best teachers — the insights, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history. They allow people long dead to talk inside our heads. Books can accompany us everywhere. Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.”
“For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.”
“For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.”
“For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".”
“For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent human natural rights of liberty and translate them into an age of new technolog”
“For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an age of cultural pluralism. And it is disappointing for just the reasons you say that not everyone has embraced his pluralistic vision.”
“For [Malcolm Subban] I know that he's the No. 1 ranked goalie in North America and the world right now, he's got a great opportunity. He's got to enjoy this whole process because it only comes once. Not that many players get the opportunity to walk up on that stage and get that jersey.”
“For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are - does that make me weird? I made a very intentional choice to not care about that stuff, and go like "I don't care about it, I'm just gonna tell my truth and see what happens."”
“For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket.”
Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman
“For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association.”
“For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.”
“For a "monotheistic" religion it should be sufficient with three gods.”
“For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.”
“For a baby to thrive she or he has to be more than fed and kept clean. She or he needs to be held and to be engaged with as a living baby. This last thought might sound a bit mad. Of course a baby is alive. But if a baby receives only perfunctory care, if her or his needs for food and water and changing are met in a production-line manner, as happened for the many abandoned babies in the Romanian orphanes after Ceausescu was toppled, she or he may not thrive; she may die.”
Source: Bodies
“For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.”
“For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old”
Source: Joseph Conrad: Selected Novels
“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel Lover
“For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.”
“For a batsman, scoring runs abroad is always a challenge.”
“For a beach bum you’re not very chill,” said Benny.
Bob frowned. “This beach bum is a retired death god who is getting a little agitated,” he said.”
Source: Hang Wire
“For a beautiful peaceful world, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.”
“For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...
“For a better mental health, just turning off the unwanted notifications, getting rid of the social apps that you don’t really need to have will help you in different ways.”
“For a better view, you should have a better height!”
“For a better world, try to create a better yourself!”
“For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood.”
“For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.”
“For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present.”
Source: Conversation with the Earth
“For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.”
“For a boat to go forward, the water must be pushed backwards...
So is moving on in life... We need to push some of what we are floating on behind our backs…”
“For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.”
Source: The Heroines: A Novel
“For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.”
“For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.”
“For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.”
“For a brand, it will be important to find ways to reinforce on a regular basis the empathic behaviour, coherent with the brand’s values.”
“For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.”
“For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
[Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]”
“For a brief, desperate moment, she wished she could begin anew, that her memories were as locked away as her brother’s. Because she had secretly loved the Duke of Montrose for as long as she could remember. Loving him did not mean she was going to allow herself to become his next victim, however. The duke collected hearts. He was reckless and wild, broken and jaded and cruel. He was driven by demons only he could see. And she had no wish to fall headlong into his darkness.”
Source: Duke of Debauchery
“For a brief moment, Herbert found himself standing in the center of the room surrounded by ten angry-looking men.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel