F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For a guy who wore layers upon layers of armor, his give-a-shit was showing.”
Source: In deinen Armen
“For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.”
“For a hallucinatory moment, Kelly and I are the same person, the living and the dead on either side of the mirror.”
Source: Drive: An Old Castle Novel
“For a happy and health life, get the answers to these questions in this order: Where, Who, Why, What and How to be you.”
Source: Modus Vivendi - Your Life Your Way: 7 Days to Self Transformation
“For a happy life, ensure that life lessons are more than life regrets.”
“For a happy life,it's best we should ignore &overlook things,people,incidents,affairs & matters.It is not necessary that we show a reaction to everything. Step back & ask yourself if the matter is really worth responding to.”
Source: Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
“For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.”
“For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.”
“For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.”
“For a heartbeat, the silence peeled back long enough for that question to worm its way into her skull, into her skin, into her breath and bones. And in the dark, she remembered.”
Source: The Assassin's Blade
“For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.”
“For a hero is someone who is selfless. Think about it, friends. Superman, Luke Skywalker, and Captain America. They are helping others. They aren’t only thinking for themselves. They are reaching out beyond themselves.”
“For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.”
“For a hoarder, staying clean isn't really about bins and labels; it's about processing items that come into the house. A good organizer can help a hoarder develop methods for sorting mail, for staying on top of recycling, and for making sure donated items get to their destinations... The repetition of bad cleaning skills is usually what got the hoarder into trouble in the first place, so an organizer works on repetition of new, positive cleaning skills.”
Source: The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter
“For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.”
“For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.”
Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
“For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another”
“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.”
Source: The subtle knife
“For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.”
Source: Eagle's Gift
“For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.”
“For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.”
Source: The Man Who Planted Trees
“For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,
yellow blossoms flourished above you in autumn, and in winter
frost heaved your bones in the ground--old toilers, soil makers:
O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost.”
Source: Old and New Poems: Donald Hall
“For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.”
“For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.”
“For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.”
“For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.”
“For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!”
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
Source: Journal of the Fictive Life
“For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.”
Source: The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913
“For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.”
“For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.”
“For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.”
“For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.”
“For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.”
“For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday”
Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
“For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune.”
“For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.”
“For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
“For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.”
“For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.”
“For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study.”
Source: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
“For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.”
“For a leader, doing is as important as being, with the key difference being that a mindful leader is able to see the intimate non-separation between the two.”
Source: Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One
“For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.”
“For a learner, every obstacle, every failure, every difficulty, every enemy, every stumbling block turns into lessons and opportunities. For a non-learner, every opportunity, every chance, every solution, every path is nothing more than a hurdle.It's your attitude that makes the difference.
-Emit Eht”
Source: Emit Eht
“For a lie to add piquancy to a story the story would be factual. Fantasy needs no lie to stimulate or excite. But if the factual story is contrived or fallacious then it’s the fantasy that is the lie.”
Source: The Desolate Garden
“For a life of the kind you and I have never known and will never know— quiet, peace, the surety of love.”
“There is nothing sure about love. Do you think love will protect you when the Fjerdans come to capture the Stormwitch?”
She didn’t. But maybe she wanted to believe there was more to life than fear and being feared.
She yanked down the shade and tapped the roof. The coach travelled on, up the cramped cart track in slow switchbacks. At last, they rattled to a stop.
“Stay here,” she said, hooking his shackles to the seat. She descended from the coach, closing the door behind her. Mal and Alina stood on the sanatorium’s stairs, but when Alina saw Zoya, she smiled and raced down the steps with arms open. Zoya blinked away an embarrassing prickle of tears. She hadn’t known how Alina might greet her, given the circumstances. She let herself be hugged. As always, Ravka’s Saint smelled of paint and pine.
“Is he in there?” Alina asked.
“He is.”
“You bring me the worst gifts.”
The tabby had returned from its sojourn and was twining through Misha’s legs. It padded over to Zoya. “Hello, Oncat,” she murmured, hefting the cat into her arms and feeling the comforting rumble of its purr.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.”
“For a life where diamonds really are forever”
Source: Forever Stuck