F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For a peaceful world, the golden rules to live by are mutual understanding, respect, tolerance, forgiveness, and love.”
“For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.”
“For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.”
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.”
“For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.”
“For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.”
“For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job”
“For a permanent solution to easing tension and soothe the rough waters of the world that cause people to go to drugs, drinking, gambling, pornography, overeating, or anything that will give them some temporary relief, you can’t beat the support and encouragement of a friend.”
“For a person [like John Lewis] that is a champion of voter rights to question whether or not Donald Trump legitimately won an election or not is an incredible position to take five days before an inauguration.”
“For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.”
“For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.”
“For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.”
“For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.”
“For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.”
“For a person to make a difference in the world, he must be different than the world.”
“For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.”
“For a person who is dying only eternity counts.”
“For a person who is thirsty for silence, walking on the quietest paths and wandering around the most tongueless corners means listening to the most peaceful music!”
“For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.”
Source: The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
“For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.”
“For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.”
“For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.”
Source: Selected Letters of William Styron
“For a Photographer - Having an OBSERVANT MIND is more important than having an expensive camera.”
Source: Open the Windows: To the World Around You
“For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.”
“For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.”
“For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.”
“For a plant to grow anywhere, it reveals that a human being needs just a space, and not anywhere special to flourish.”
Source: These Words Burn Like Fire
“For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared
to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.”
“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.”
Source: Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws
“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.”
“For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.”
“For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.”
“For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.”
Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“For a poet, style is the only morality.”
“For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.”
“For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular.”
“For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.”
“For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.”
Source: How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
“For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.”
“For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed.”
“For a prayer to be answered , a blessing or miracle to take place.
5 things need to change.
A change of heart
A change of mind
A change of faith
A change of attitude and
A change of behavior.
Proverbs 4:23 | Ephesians 4:23
Hebrews 11:6”
“For a President not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies from defense intelligence, to the CIA, etcetera, is absolutely mindless. It's just mindless.”
“For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops.”
Source: The Portable Machiavelli
“For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.”
Source: American Power and the New Mandarins
“For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.”
“For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it's more likely to be processed rather than a whole food.”
Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual