F Quotes
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“For a considerable portion of humanity today, it is possible and indeed likely that one's neighbor, one's colleague, or one's employer will have a different mother tongue, eat different food, and follow a different religion than oneself. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.
In such a world, I feel, it is vital for us to find genuinely sustainable and universal approach to ethics, inner values, and personal integrity-an approach that can transcend religious, cultural, and racial differences and appeal to people at a sustainable, universal approach is what I call the project of secular ethics.
All religions, therefore, to some extent, ground the cultivation of inner values and ethical awareness in some kind of metaphysical (that is, not empirically demonstrable) understanding of the world and of life after death. And just as the doctrine of divine judgment underlies ethical teachings in many theistic religions, so too does the doctrine of karma and future lives in non-theistic religions.
As I see it, spirituality has two dimensions. The first dimension, that of basic spiritual well-being-by which I mean inner mental and emotional strength and balance-does not depend on religion but comes from our innate human nature as beings with a natural disposition toward compassion, kindness, and caring for others. The second dimension is what may be considered religion-based spirituality, which is acquired from our upbringing and culture and is tied to particular beliefs and practices. The difference between the two is something like the difference between water and tea.
On this understanding, ethics consists less of rules to be obeyed than of principles for inner self-regulation to promote those aspects of our nature which we recognize as conducive to our own well-being and that of others.
It is by moving beyond narrow self-interest that we find meaning, purpose, and satisfaction in life.”
Source: Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
“For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.”
Source: The Giver Quartet
“For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.”
“For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.”
“For a country to be a colourful country, it must have different people! The way to have different people is to have a society of independent-minded individuals who think differently; otherwise, it would appear as a monotonous mob of people who are extremely colourless, boring, and look alike like a log.”
“For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
“For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.”
“For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.”
“For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.”
“For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.”
“For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9,damn they don’t teach how to come down from there instead leave us to gravity.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.”
“For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.”
“For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.”
“For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.”
“For a covey dog, give me a pointer—stamina, dash, derring-do. For a singles dog, give me a setter—patience, thoroughness, precision. Just one man’s experience, and if it doesn’t jibe with yours don’t sue me for it.
- The Old Maid By Havilah Babcock”
Source: The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever, Collector’s Edition
“For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.”
“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
“For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.”
“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”
“For a curious person, what a wonderful feeling is to get lost and what a horrible feeling to get lost for a coward!”
“For a dark street, sunshine is most welcome; for a wounded soul, love is most welcome!”
“For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.”
“For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.”
“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”
“For a decade, I've known I will never again have everything, and so all I've wanted is to believe that, someday, again, I'll have enough.”
Source: Book Lovers
“For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.”
“For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.”
“For a deeply religious purpose, there are people who do not personally believe that abortion is acceptable. I understand that. But this is a country where we don't impose religious beliefs on the entire country. This is a country where we accept differences of opinion.”
“For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah.”
“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“For a detained patriot, breaking through the doubled walls of gray silence, attempting even a symbolic link with the outside world, is an act of resistance And resistance--even at the level of merely asserting one's rights, of maintaining one's ideological beliefs in the face of a programmed onslaught--is in fact the only way political prisoners can maintain their sanity and humanity. Resistance is the only means of trying to prevent a breakdown. The difficulty lies in the fact that in this effort one must rely first and foremost on one's own resources (writing defiance on toilet paper for instance), and nobody can teach one how to do it.”
Source: Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
“For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't.”
Source: Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets
“For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.”
“For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.”
“For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.”
“For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.”
“For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.”
“For a DJ at my level, you can really go through life and travel the world without seeing a single thing. It's harder to go out and see the sights than it is to play a show.”
“For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.”
“For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film”
“For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.”
Source: From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
“For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.”
“For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.”
“For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.”
“For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs that it is the birthday of Jesus. It is the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun-Dies Natalis Invicti Solis. Christmas is a relic of sun worship.”