F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.”
“For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.”
“For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.”
“For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.”
“For a fraction of a second, we were together, and it had felt divine. Not nice. Not safe. Not taken for granted. It was short and beautiful and painfully memorable. Like the tree I was obsessed with.”
Source: Vicious
“For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.”
“For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.”
“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
Source: The odyssey
“For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.”
“For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.”
“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”
“For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.”
“For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.”
“For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.”
“For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.”
“For a girl like me, I understand because working out can get really boring. Doing the same exact routine every day gets old, and you need something new and fresh to inspire you.”
“For a girl, the fear of not being pretty is the fear of not being a valuable object, which is the fear of not being loved. It is a conflation that is instilled so early on and runs so deep that, even when you know it's a fear perpetrated by patriarchy, goaded by fashion magazines, and used to manipulate you into buying stuff, you still can't stop the way it affects you. Being a woke feminist doesn't mean you've overcome it, it just means you've learned to live with your perpetual self-loathing and your anger around it, too.”
Source: No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
“For a girl with such a dark mind, you're a little too in love with the sunrise.”
“For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will never stand up against a girl who is clearly physically attractive.”
“For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.”
“For a goal-oriented person, it does not matter whether a ladder has ten thousand steps or a million steps, what is important is that there is a goal there that is worth going down or worth going up!”
“For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place”
“For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.”
Source: How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism
“For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.”
“For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.”
“For a good fast, hunger is food.”
“For a good hour, the hairdresser poked, prodded, and preened me. She twisted my hair into a loose updo, sticking white roses and baby's breath into my locks, the photographer capturing each step with her camera. Finally, Jane helped me into the dress.
"Wow," said Phillipa with a gasp, staring at me. "You look absolutely gorgeous. Like you've fallen from the stars."
"She does," said Marie, and everybody nodded in agreement.
I hooked the necklace Rémi had given me around my neck. And then I took a good look at myself in the full-length mirror. What I saw shocked me. In this glorious dress, the way the silver threads sparkled, I felt like I was sparkling, too, like I had metamorphosed from a caterpillar into a wild butterfly. It was then that I found my own spirit insect---probably Grand-mère's plan all along. Le Papillon Sauvage. Me.”
Source: Sophie Valroux's Paris Stars
“For a good life, stay in good company. Negative people awaken negative parts inside of us.”
“For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.”
“For a good man fame is always a problem.”
Source: The Collected Edition: A burnt-out case
“For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.”
“For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“For a good wife contains so many persons in herself. What was H. not to me? She was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress; but at the same time all that any man friend (and I have good ones) has ever been to me. Perhaps more.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it's a small gym and I've known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I'll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop.”
“For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.”
“For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.”
“For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.”
Source: Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty
“For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.”
Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
“For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!”
“For a great willpower, no road has length!”
“For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.”
Source: Bitterblue
“For a grownup like me, To learn from her, What it takes to love, It comes naturally to her…”
Source: Narcissistic Romanticism
“For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.”
“For a guy, nothing is sexier than a girl who craves his little guy and can’t keep her hands off of it… because this is exactly the way he feels about your ladyparts whether he’s groping them like a savage or quietly watching TV next to you.”
Source: Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
“For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.”
“For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.”
“For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!”