F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.”
Source: Early to Death, Early to Rise
“For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.”
Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)
“For all his theatrics, or maybe because of them, I knew he was a strong man. I had always been more comfortable around strong people.”
Source: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
“For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.”
“For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.”
“for all human sentiments there is a time of early blossoming, a day of generous enthusiasm that gradually fades until nothing is left of happiness but a memory, and glory is known for a delusion”
“for all I can really do is
stand here
in September’s rain
savoring…
soaking it all in
slipping..
and simply
holding on to poetry
for dear life.”
Source: Turquoise Silence
“For all I know, some of my close friends could be dead. The only way to find out would be to call them up and talk to them about what's going on in their lives, and I never do that.
I think this is true of many guys, even the ones who are not Humor Personalities: we do not view talking about our personal lives as an acceptable activity.”
Source: Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
“For all I know, the guy is Dracula.”
Source: Boys that Bite
“For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.”
“For all I know, you look different by sunlight," Cameron prodded.
"I'm actually a blond," Julian deadpanned.”
Source: Warrior's Cross
“For all I see, humanity is lost. It's devastatingly sad.”
“For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.”
“For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“For all is not perfect; instead, they fall short in the glory of life”
“For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.”
Source: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel
“For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.”
“For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'”
Source: Existence
“For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision.”
“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never appreciate...is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.”
“For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.”
“For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.”
“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band’s, or even your species’ might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”
Maybe it’s a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds— promising untold opportunities—beckon.
Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.”
“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“For all its modern glamour and for everything else that the Tarot has become, it had a fairly humble origin; it began as a simple pack of playing cards. No matter what use the Tarot is put to today, from psychological insight to divination to collectible folk art, it began and remains a card game. Trying to understand the Tarot without knowledge of this fact would be like trying to perform surgery without any knowledge of anatomy. In both cases, we end up with a mangled product.”
Source: Origins of the Tarot's Minor Arcana: A Guidebook to the Ancestral Influences that Shaped the Tarot's Minor Arcana
“For all its out of stock, peace is priceless”
“For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.”
Source: God's Inspirational Promises
“For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.”
“For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.”
“For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.”
“For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.”
“For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.”
“For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.”
“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
“For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.”
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.”
“For all malignant cancers, both fish eaters and vegetarians and vegans combined had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.76 (95% CI: 0.63, 0.91) and HR: 0.82 (95% CI: 0.72, 0.94), respectively]. Vegetarians and vegans combined also had significantly lower mortality than did regular meat eaters for pancreatic cancer [HR: 0.47 (95% CI: 0.26, 0.86); P-heterogeneity = 0.065] and cancers of the lymphatic/hematopoietic tissue [HR: 0.43 (95% CI: 0.27, 0.70)], and low meat eaters had significantly lower respiratory disease mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.69 (95% CI: 0.49, 0.97); P-heterogeneity = 0.14].”
“For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.”
Source: We, the People
“For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?”
“For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.”
Source: Common Sense: With the Whole Appendix: the Address to the Quakers: Also, the Large Additions
“For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.”
Source: Jurgen
“For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty's against all common Sense.”
“For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.”
“For all my days,
I have been making up to the world
for how challenging I am, how questioning I am,
how strong and smart and passionate I am,
how unwilling I am to accept systems and processes and values
just because that's the way it's been done
and been seen,
considered especially challenging as a female, especially
in a somewhat younger time (a/k/a less open to challenges)--
when I, too, was younger (a/k/a what does she know?).
There I was, challenging, questioning,
but also trying to make up to the world for it,
always to be--show--prove
that I'm not didactic, intransigent, inflexible,
that my passion is not dogma, but
a malleable creative force
informed by sensory, intellectual, and emotional input...
For all my days,
I have been making up to the world
for how challenging I am.
But that has been as good for me as it has thwarted me,
it has grown me, shaped me, honed me”
“For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.”
“For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.”
“For all my eyes couldn't see, my heart could perceive. The organ that forms first, that speaks loudest. Bulging straight from our chests bright as maraschino cherries, and brave as anything.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir