F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.”
Source: The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
“For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.”
“For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.”
“For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)”
“For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live”
Source: She
“For all the girls and women pushed into the abyss of expendability and invisibility.” Daunis, The FIrekeeper's Daughter”
Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter
“For all the girls in all the worlds.
May you feel strength with your first breath,
realize your unlimited potential for greatness on your second, and follow your dreams on your third.”
“For all the "good girl" readers looking for an Irish, tattooed man who knows the difference between "harder" and "faster.”
Source: Declan
“For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it's not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.”
“For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.”
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.”
“For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.”
Source: My American Journey
“For all the hoopla you read and hear about the overdiagnosis of ADD and the overuse of medication-indeed, serious problems in certain places—the more costly problem is the opposite: millions of people, especially adults, have ADD but don't know about it and there fore get no help at all.”
Source: Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
“For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.”
“For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.”
Source: Making the Most of Your Money
“For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.”
“For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.”
“For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.”
“For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.”
Source: An American Childhood
“For all the Little Birds in our shared humanity who dare to explore beyond the status quo, welcome!”
Source: Notes to a Little Bird: Reclaiming Civil Society
“For all the locking up he’d done, all the patients he’d managed to control with cells and restraints, there was one thing those walls could not contain.
Light.”
Source: The Lost Melody
“For all the loose morals Robert and his beloved poets had, they were right to celebrate love for it was one of the most powerful forces on earth.”
Source: With a Reckless Abandon
“For all the loss and tragedy I have known, my life has taught me that the human spirit like the lifted hands of the blind, will rise above chaos and destruction, as wings in flight”
Source: In the Shadow of the Banyan
“For all the mistakes we've made in life, there just moments in time. Let it go, move on. In Jesus name. Amen.”
“For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here for the same reason that families have always come here-for the hope that in America, they could build a better life for themselves and their families. Like the waves of immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will only enrich our country.”
“For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting—an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“For all the people here, I am utterly alone.”
Source: Girl in Pieces
“For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.”
Source: Delirium
“For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.”
“For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.”
“For all the rest of that evening they were furtive and unwilling to let the other one out of their sight for more than a minute, as though distance would compromise everything all over again—talking to each other as though they’d never had the opportunity to talk, but talking about bullshit, about nothing at all, just hearing the rise and fall of the other one’s voice.”
Source: Gideon the Ninth
“For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who, to the world their steadfast faith confessed,
your name, O Jesus, be forever blessed
Alleluia!”
“For all the sermons I've heard about the gay agenda, I'm finding queer people to have much less of an agenda than Christians.”
Source: Gay the Pray Away
“For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.”
Source: Vernon God Little
“For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.”
“For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is the problem of landmines. For example, when the French troops went into Kosovo they were told that they were going to enter in half-tracks, over the open fields. But their leaders had forgotten about the landmines. And this was a major problem because, these days, landmines are no longer localized.”
“For all the splendor of their monuments, the builders have vanished.”
Source: How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages
“For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.”
“For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.”
“For all the talk about common sense, common sense is not always sensical and there are often more intelligent (albeit, less obvious) solutions. Further, what is good common sense in one environment is far from common or sensical in another environment. It is situational. City slickers can be a danger to themselves and others in the country, but the reverse is also true.”
Source: Purnima
“For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.”
“for all the talk of 2020 vision over the past few years, it turns out we had some pretty significant cataracts”
Source: What The Hell Do We Do Now?: An enterprise guide to COVID-19 and beyond
“For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.”
“For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.”
“For all the things I didn’t say,
About how I felt all along the way.
I have always found love in your heart.
O mother-my-love, I’ll never let what we have fall apart.
Whether it’s the sunny May or the cold December,
Mama, you’re the one I’ll always remember.
I may never find words to express what you mean to me;
As long as you’re here, I will be...”
“For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.”
“For all the things that break your life, heart and mind, get this all inclusive mind and life healing book breathed by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God for your peace and salvation ...You will find it in Paperback and Ebook formats...For The Sound Mind: Heal Me Lord For I Am Weak by Stellah Mupanduki”
Source: For The Sound Mind: Heal Me Lord For I Am Weak
“For all the thorns I'd faced, at last I'd found the roses.”
Source: Beauty Reborn