F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For a factor to be worthwhile to a behavioral investor it must be empirically supported, theoretically sound and behaviorally intransigent.”
Source: The Behavioral Investor: How psychology shapes wealth, risk, and investment decisions
“For a fair maid of England hath told me
That the crows are departed the Tower.
So I’ll seek for my bailiwick elsewhere,
Sniffing out some new dungheap of power.”
Source: The Heretic Emperor
“For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me.”
Source: The King of Lies
“For a family that doesn’t wear socks, we sure do have a lot of them.”
“For a faster life: make more phone calls.”
Source: Thick, Thin, What The Dragon Let In: Stories, Rhymes, and Reveries
“For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.”
“For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.”
“For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”
“For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.”
“For a few days I tweeted with a certain Pippa Middleton, and I really thought it was the Pippa Middleton. Then I discovered it was a fake. But the person who had thought up the concept was nice. It was kind of genius in its own way.”
“For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.”
Source: Against Walls
“For a few minutes it didn't matter what anyone thought of me.
I have created something that didn't exist the day before, from a place that didn't belong to anyone but me.”
Source: Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment
“For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.”
“For a few minutes, Solana basked in his embrace. He was the perfect husband. The man who understood her more than anyone else. The love of her life, the father of her baby, and the first and only man she’d ever put her trust in.”
Source: Solana
“For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.”
“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”
“For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And ifsome part of the non—entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.”
“For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when others are just sighing or snorting. Life in the country has made him like the ruminants, and being a cattleman, he is able to strike a perfect balance between the fears of irrational beings and the abominable reverie of those who dominate them. He sinks two fingers into the paint can and marks the foreheads of the four cornered cows.”
Source: Of Cattle and Men
“For a few moments, her imagination and her heart were bewitched.”
Source: Persuasion
“For a few moments, raising his arms desperately, the Reverend Mouret implored Heaven. His shoulder-blades cracked, with such fantastic force did he pray. But soon enough his arms fell to his sides, his hopes abashed. From heaven came one of those silences utterly void of hope known to the devout.”
Source: La Faute de l'abbé Mouret
“For a few moments, the women sat together in companionable quiet, the only sounds that of birdsong and hoofbeats and wagon wheels from outside. The dough rounding between Vienne's palms was smooth and soft, and the sight of the rolls filling the pan Paulette set on the table offered a certain satisfaction. Life remained complex and unreliable, but this was simple and predictable. A comfort.”
Source: A Refuge Assured
“For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this idea is deep within your heart. As you calmly breathe in and out, picture it radiating from you like a fine, colored vapor gradually covering the face of the earth. See it enter the hearts of everyone, especially those stuck in the mad zones. Feel it circulate everywhere until it comes all the way round and back to you. This is love in action. The source of this love is the Tao. Savor this.”
Source: Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide
“For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.”
Source: The Art of Meditation
“For a few months, the political catastrophe seemed so dire that one's music and movie preferences were no longer considered the ultimate markers of one's moral fitness to fight fascism. Which became, incredibly, a buzzword.
Though we could always 'do more' or 'do better', there was a sense that our embarrassment of privileges could be set aside to focus on the task at hand. Though what that task was, I wasn't really sure.”
Source: Fake Accounts
“For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.”
Source: Under Five Reigns
“For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.”
Source: Of outlaws, con men, whores, politicians, and other artists
“For a few seconds I thought about my little brothers who loved connecting things with rope. I wondered if I'd ever see them again and a torpedo of sadness struck me and moved straight trough my body.”
“For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love." (Let the Right One In)”
“For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.”
Source: War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
“For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek”
“For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.”
“For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.”
“For a few years all I listened to was The Smiths, Things Fall Apart by The Roots, Love Is Dead by The Mr. T Experience, Nostalgic for Nothing by J Church, and the first Servotron album No Room for Humans. And that was it. For two or three years, those are the albums I listened to. I just fell into this very bizarre phase where my head shut down on me. I just obsessed over things and those albums happened to be in that rotation of me obsessing over things.”
“For a few years Trieste once more entered the world’s consciousness, as the Powers argued what to do with it. No longer one of the supreme ports of Europe, it became instead one of those places, like Danzig or Tangier, that have been argued about at international conferences, written about in pamphlets, questioned about in parliamentary debates, less as living cities than as political hypotheses. Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in America, warned the world that an iron curtain had been laid across Europe, dividing democracy and Communism “from Stettin to Trieste.” Abroad the statesmen endlessly parleyed; at home the Triestini of different loyalties, chanting slogans and waving their respective flags, surged about the place rioting.
Finally in 1954 the disconsolate and bewildered seaport was given its solution, and Trieste has been what it has been ever since, a geographical and historical anomaly, Italian by sovereignty but in temperament more or less alone.”
Source: Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere
“For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.”
“For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).”
“For a film I shot on the most difficult mountain on God's wide earth in Patagonia for a sequence where there was high probability some digital effects were needed, somebody made storyboards and I quickly ignored them, after half an hour I ignored them and I never used any digital effect.”
“For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.”
“For a finite group of you, reading these messages will be like reading entries in your diary but written by...another version of...you. This key activates your lock. What happens next is up to you. - Tyler”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live), its configuration must evolve in such a way that provides easier access to the currents that flow through it.”
Source: Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
“For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.”
Source: Convection in Porous Media
“For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.”
“For a fleeting moment, he had the disorienting sense that every decision in his life had inexorably led him here.”
Source: Make Me Burn
“For a fleeting moment, I imagine that if I were queen, I could make the act of hurting malfettos a crime. I could execute this boy's pursuers with a single command.”
Source: The Rose Society
“For a fleeting moment, I wonder if he’s contemplating my demise, adding me to his list of victims. But then he leans down, his mask brushing my ear. “I’m not done with you, little one. Not ever.”
Source: Carnival Monster
“For a fleeting second, he'd thought her Helene returned from the dead, but as he swiftly drank in her features, watched the way the anger left her eyes but not the passion that fueled it, and then saw her offer compassion and justice to the two rogues, he knew this was no Helene reincarnated but a wondrous woman who, already, drew him the way shrines did pilgrims.”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible, he can easily define a nearer new destination!”