F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For all our needs, it provides,
how would the earth forgive
all we take so ungraciously,
to fill our pockets,
digging & drilling into its rich core, grand mountains, and vast seas so impudently,
it's centuries old lush, dense forests diminishing, thawing glaciers.
It's pristine ocean & rivers now carry waste & muck,
the smoke, dust & billions cars that turn the azure sky gray.
It's groans and trembling man cannot bear;
greedily,
audaciously turns his gaze up to the heavens, to the moon,
and other planets to plunder,
trash & devastate in the name of ambition, progress and development!”
“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.”
Source: Complete Essays
“For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.”
“For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.”
Source: Meditation, Prayer & Affirmations
“For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.”
Source: The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life on Earth
“For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.”
Source: West with the Night
“For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.”
“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”
“For all summer I closed the drapes, I shut the glass windows and painted them black.
So when winter came I break the glass, I draw the drapes apart and let the sunlight come in.
I often do the right things a little too late.
I often let in sunshine after the sun has set.”
“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.”
Source: Self-reliance, and Other Essays
“For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.”
“For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...”
“For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)
“For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!”
“For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.”
“For all that "home" was considered a word of warmth and comfort, policemen knew better. Home is where the heart is, and the heart could be a dark and damaged place.”
Source: Homecoming
“For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.”
“For all that I loved him, I never got to the core of Joe. I never reached his innermost Russian doll. He always kept a part of himself locked well away.”
Source: The Party Crasher
“For all that is said about male privilege, trans men do not seem to get any of it. The only thing conceded to them are the pronouns; other than that, males do not share power, spaces, brotherhood, prizes or political offices with them. They are not allowed to really be men, which leaves us with the following equation: men can be women, but women cannot be men, men can be men, but women cannot be women, men can be trans women, but women cannot be trans women. Men can be everything, women nothing.”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman
“For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it.”
Source: Portrait of a Thief
“For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.”
“For all that Tron wanted to be, it ultimately had to be a fun ride for the audience and I was going to be one of the comic characters, and he was really on top of that. He was having such a good time doing it. That's my memory of it. I'd love to work with him again. I think he's great.”
“For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
“For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.”
“For all that you are and all that you do, and for the many ways you make my heart sing.”
“For all the [body's] members seek nothing except inseparable union with the intellect, as with their beginning, ultimate good, and everlasting life.”
“For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.”
“For all the awkward girls that think they’re alone.
You’re not.”
Source: Guarding His Obsession
“For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)
“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”
Source: Slammerkin
“For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.”
“For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.”
“For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.”
“For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.”
“For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.”
Source: The Shockwave Rider
“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”
“For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.”
“For all the courage that we never had, I'm just about glad.”
“For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands to conduct the type of murder we saw on September 11. For all real problems with ambushes and sabotage, there will be no more gassings, mass murdering, invading neighbors, sending guided missiles across borders or no-fly zones in Iraq, but rather the hard work of consensual government - a difficult process easily caricatured, but when completed universally admired.”
“For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.”
“For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.”
“FOR ALL THE CYNICS WHO SECRETLY
STILL BELIEVE IN LOVE”
Source: This Time It's Real
“For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“For all the differences among the eight hospitals, I was nonetheless surprised by how readily one can feel at home in an operating room, wherever it might be. Once a case was underway, it was still surgery. You still had a human being on the table with his hopes and his fears, and his body opened up to you, trusting you to do right by him. And you still had a group of people striving to work together with enough skill and commitment to warrant that trust.”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“For all the doors locked, love is the best locksmith!”
“For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.”