F Quotes
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“For a split second, I wondered if he were some type of sexy sorcerer, who was able to remove my clothing by the force of his will alone. I squeezed my eyes shut and focused on the buttons of his shirt, willing them to pop off.
It didn’t work. Then again, it was pretty hard to focus while he was touching me, so maybe under different circumstances, I too could be a sexy sorcerer. Watch out world.”
Source: Control
“For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His arms went around her, lifting her almost out of her sandals, and then he was kissing her—or she was kissing him, she wasn’t sure, and it didn’t matter. The feel of his mouth on hers was electric; her hands gripped his arms, pulling him hard against her. The feel of his heart pounding through his shirt made her dizzy with joy. No one else’s heart beat like Jace’s did, or ever could.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.”
Source: Calling Romeo
“For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.”
“For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe!”
“For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.”
“For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.
So collapse.
Crumble.
This is not your destruction.
This is your birth.”
“For a start, I already knew that obstacles, problems, and failures were my allies, not my enemies. Setbacks, far from stanching my ability to move forward, are actually the foundation upon which my successes are built. This is not simply a case of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." I welcome obstacles. They give me the first Woburn away everything that could potentially get in my way.”
Source: My Next Breath
“For a start, people who traveled for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work cannot accurately be portrayed as lazy benefit-scroungers”
“For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.”
Source: How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
“For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.”
“For a storm is certainly coming, whether from my hand or someone else's.
and i have no idea who will survive the dawn”
“For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.”
“For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.”
“For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!”
“For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.”
“For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.”
“For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
[Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]”
“For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.”
Source: The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim
“For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.”
“For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.”
“For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.”
“For a successful life, you should have to learn from your past. Think the mistakes you've made in the past, but learn from that instead of regret.”
“For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.”
“For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.”
Source: Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)
“For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
“For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.”
“For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?”
“For a surfer, being tubed is like being reborn.”
“For a surfer, getting tubed is like being reborn.”
“For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf.”
“For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.”
Source: Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel
“For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.”
“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”
Source: Cicero: De oratore ...
“For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.”
Source: Moon Over Soho
“For a test pilot the right stuff in the prayer department was not “Please, God, don’t let me blow up.” No, the supplication at such a moment was “Please, dear God, don’t let me fuck up.”
Source: The Right Stuff
“For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising temperature followed by a decade of stable and slightly falling temperatures worldwide, how many decades would you require before you are convinced that the theory on which you are committing £400bn of taxpayers' money might be slightly wrong?”
“For a thing’s beauty we ought to compliment not its owner but its maker.”
“For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.”
“For a thinking man, the main thing is to develop that person within”
“For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.”
“For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.”
Source: Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg : a Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996
“For a thought to manifest on the earth realm, a sacrifice must occur.”
Source: Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization
“For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.”
“For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.”
“For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.”
Source: The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land
“For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.”
Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire