F Quotes
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“For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed by His Spirit, is a high provocation of him; nor shall I expect the discovery of truth from any one who thus proudly engages in a work so much beyond his ability.”
Source: Pneumatologia: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects; His Whole Work in the Old and New Creation is Explained; and the Doctrine Concerning it Vindicated
“For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.”
“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
“For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'”
“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”
Source: Don Quixote
“For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.”
“For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.”
“For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark.”
“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”
“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”
“For a man to get married and stay married, he must detach from and disavow the three things that bind him to reality: sex, travel, and near-death experiences.”
“For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.”
“For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.”
“For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.”
“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”
“For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.”
“For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others.”
“For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.”
Source: Collected Prose
“For a man who had been so intimate and deep in his conversation, he was very detached from the moment. Maybe if you lived as many lives as he had, the only person you really had any kind of intimate relationship with was yourself. She felt like she might not have been there at all.
And in a few moments, she wasn't.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.”
“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
“For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!”
“For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!”
“For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure extreme hunger for a week, and extreme cold for a day, but extreme fear may undo him an hour. There is no way of guarding against this greatest danger except by assuring him that he is fortified against the other two.”
Source: Woodcraft and Indian Lore: A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America
“For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.”
“For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.”
“For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.”
“For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.”
Source: Essays on Music
“For a man who thought it was okay to threaten a little girl and her mother? There was no second chance.”
Source: Caribou's Gift
“For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.”
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.”
“For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many”
Source: The First Fast Draw: A Novel
“For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].”
“For a man's house is his castle.”
“For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.”
Source: Works
“For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!”
“For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.”
“For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.”
“For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.”
“For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.”
“For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.”
Source: Who You are when No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise
“For a marriage to work a husband must learn these two words: “Yes dear.”
“For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.”
“For a married woman to flirt is a sin.”
“For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.”
Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
“For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.”
“For a mile up and down the open fields before us the splendid lines of the veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia swept down upon us. Their bearing was magnificent. They came forward with a rush, and how our men did yell, 'Come on, Johnny, come on!'”
“For a millennia, the concept of guilt has always been to run away with your tail between your legs and with that shitty feelings that clings to you for a lifetime.”
Source: The Devil I Know Him
“for a million dollars it’s very easy for people to fall out of love with you”
Source: sciVive
“For a million dollars, the Russians would take two people, a million apiece, around the moon and back. However, stories, videos that come from the space station, and other people, are a great inspiration to young people for an exciting career field.”