F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.”
“For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain”
“For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.”
“For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.”
“For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.”
“For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.”
“For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation and laughter. Hence, shamanism could be said to have developed a means to tackle and override the barriers, oppression, and despair that tend to obstruct life.”
“For a shield from the storm, for a friend, for a love to keep me safe and warm...I turn to you. For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on...for everything you do, for everything thats true, I turn to you.”
“For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!”
“For a short burst of time, we completely belong to each other, absorbed by the needs of our physicality, glued together by the passion of our lips.”
Source: Without You
“For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.”
“For a short time Alex had been a celebrity, and yet here he was still tugging away at the same thread, hoping something new would emerge.”
Source: The Mark of Eternity
“For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.”
“For a short waterfall it is surprisingly noisy and too close to the car park for him to risk shouting over it so they stand there in silence observing it. Obviously she wants to and he finds that he can tolerate the distraction, using the time to check her out. Posh punk, he thinks, hard to see which is dominant. Frayed denim skirt and black leggings under a very classy cashmere coat. She trawled a high-end branch of Oxfam or she's genuinely indigent with a good source of hand-me-downs. Whichever, she has a near-perfect profile and pink hair.”
Source: Badlands
“For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at least in some countries, choosing instead German composers who were somewhat more ... apologetic.”
Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club
“For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.”
Source: The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature
“For a shy person it’s hard enough to overcome self-consciousness and establish personal relationships with others without having the additional hindrance of a well-meaning but misguided relative who only emphasises that person’s limitations”
Source: You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?
“For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.”
“For a Siddhar yogi, time is precious. It is important to utilize every moment to evolve into ever higher states of consciousness. We understand stagnancy as decay and for growth, we constantly discard the old to welcome change as the new. We tap into the magical abilities to evolve. "Every saint was a sinner in the past" maxim holds true. In the intensity of our yogic pursuit we evolve quickly. By evolving, we know that is the greatest gift of a lifetime we could ever receive- to be angelic as a being of consciousness. Consciousness is ever evolving and dynamic in transforming.”
Source: Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
“For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.”
“For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.”
“For a single path leads to the house of Hades.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“For a single person fighting many enemies, zigzagging is a very effective fighting method.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.”
“For a sitcom sex scene, you get in bed and that's the end of the scene. It quick and it was fast, but it was foreign territory for me. Not for Bobby. Bobby Cannavale has been down that road before. With my character, I think it will be a one-and-out. I don't think you'll see my character [in Vinyl] naked again, so relax everybody.”
“For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for”
“For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.”
“For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.”
“For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.”
“For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproportionate effect on smaller economies.”
“For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.”
“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.”
“For a smart man, why would Trump conduct absurd limp-wristed missile strikes while the Chinese are sitting with him in Mar-a-Lago. Do they not understand protocol and diplomacy? I don't understand. Do they understand that is probably one of the greatest breaches of diplomacy I've ever seen in my lifetime.”
“For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.”
“For a social enterprise to make an impact in the world, it needs a solid foundation based on sustainability.”
“For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.”
“For a society to function successfully, perhaps there needs to be a level of empathy that cannot be corrupted.”
Source: Genesis
“For a soldier of ascension there is no room for self-gratification, beyond the bare necessities of sustenance.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.”
Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
“For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.”
“For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.”
“For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).”
“For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.”
“For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.”
“For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.”
“For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.”
“For a spiritual journey, you don’t have to meditate or visit a temple or listen to a guru! Just live a misty morning while the sun is rising!”
“For a split second, Elsa recalled a new memory of her younger self. She was building a snowman with another girl. They pulled the snowman around the room laughing. It was clear they loved each other. Her hands started to tingle in an unfamiliar way- they were warm- then the sensation was gone and she was left with a sharp headache.
What was that? she wondered. The girl had to be in her imagination. She had never used magic before that week. Had she?
Elsa stood up, her legs shaking. She held on to her bed frame to keep from falling. Heart pounding, fingers aching, she closed her eyes again and tried to remember the love she had just felt coursing through her veins. The emotion was stronger than fear. This feeling had come from building something out of love- a snowman for the two girls to enjoy.”
Source: Conceal, Don't Feel
“For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“For a split second, I was about to do it.
Drop bombs on innocent people.
Kill innocent people.”
Source: The Butterfly Effect