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 time I’d spent reviewing Holmes’s log on my phone in recent days, it held significantly more meaning now, here in my hands. When I’d first held this journal, I’d chalked Holmes up to little more than another unfortunate drowned sailor. And perhaps even a criminal.
But now, I knew he was a man who’d fallen in love with a witch of the sea. A man who’d been determined to return to her.”
Source: The Amalfi Curse
“For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what and the why of the big picture.”
“For all the time she’s out of reach because I was a rigid dick who only ever saw the world in black or white. Cecily is neither. She’s gray. She’s the color. She’s every rainbow I never thought to stop and watch”
Source: God of Wrath
“For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.”
Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
“For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law.
By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.”
“For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to the pain that life brings, we can truly cure our pain and avoid our suffering. Then we can walk in the valley of love and experience the vast space within our heart.”
Source: Discovering the True You with Ayurveda: How to Nourish, Rejuvenate, and Transform Your Life
“For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.”
“For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious tend to look at our churches as benign institutions that create a placid and docile citizenry, having little impact on our culture.”
“For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl had her face.”
“For all the women - especially the young women, who put your faith in me - I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion.”
“For all the women in the world who give up a part of themselves trying to make other people happy.
Don't let their expectations of who they think you're meant to be take away that joyful, authentic part of yourself.
Be you.
And anyone who doesn't love you for it, can fuck off. Tell them I said so.”
Source: The P*ssy Next Door
“For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.”
“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?”
“For all the yoga I do (and I do plenty), I also love the time I spend jogging. It gets me in sync with myself.”
“For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.”
“For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.”
“For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.”
“For all their jokes and quirks and frustrating mannerisms, he loved them. It was what family was about—forgiving each other’s transgressions, showing remorse for things done wrong, and above all, accepting one another even with their imperfections.”
Source: The Revelations of August Barton
“For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day-and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.”
“For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.”
“For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn't know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight through deception and see to the heart of truth was often lost with childhood. By adulthood humans had trained themselves to be coy and manipulative in response to the coy and manipulative society in which they lived, which led them to believe that everyone was trying to be as coy and manipulative as themselves and were uncertain about what was true and what was not. Beyond their few flashes of clarity, everything became a muddle of colliding doubts.”
Source: The Speaker for the Trees
“For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.”
Source: Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, The
“For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.”
“For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.”
“For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“For all these stars,
nothing is new.
They’ve seen all kinds of wars
and miracles, too.
They know the messengers with their holy books
will smile and wash their hands in blood.
They know the politicians with their good looks
will make the poor eat pies of mud.
They’ve seen the Earth freeze
and then burn with greed.
They’ve seen the trees
and the seas emptied.
Yet, you won’t hear their sneers
when a man arrives
and, having experienced a number of years,
proclaims: 'I have lived!'
Because nothing is new under these stars:
the lies, the love, the memories and scars,
the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,
the families, the friends, none of it is new.
All of it—even the me and you.”
“For all these years, her heart had painted the picture for her. Her child-not a figment of her imagination, but her child in the world. The picture that her heart painted was real.”
Source: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”
“For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that had first launched them on this quest.”
Source: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
“For all they may talk about the people as a coherent group, demagogues are actually devoted to pitting the people against each other. Demagogues rarely create new prejudices; they amplify those that already exist, giving people permission to say things that had previously been unpopular or taboo. Much as demagogues work to weaken the rule of law, they try to weaken the social norms that enforce civic friendship, opening old wounds and encouraging the eruption of anger and hatred that have been kept below the surface by a thin but crucially important layer of civility and civic decency.
The final point is especially important. Demagogues don't simply flatter the populace. They flatter a portion of the people by attacking and demonizing everyone else. Those who stand with the demagogue become 'the people.' Everybody else becomes effectively subhuman: 'animals,' 'vermin,' 'criminals,' 'enemies of the state,' In this way, demagogues ensure that a portion of the people will always side with them against their common enemy. At the same time, they create the perception of emergency to justify their destruction of the constitutional safeguards that would otherwise check their power. A demagogue needs division the way that a fire needs oxygen. They succeed only because they are able to fan the flames.”
Source: We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
“For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.”
“For all things are less dreadful than they seem.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...
“For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.”
“For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.”
“For all things turn to barenness
In the dim glass the demons hold
The glass of outer weariness
Made when God slept in times of old”
“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts and false allegations — and don't ever let anyone use the word witch-hunts about this; there were no witches — the fact remains that in 1994, it is extremely difficult to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse. And the external forces of denial are almost overwhelming. If a case as verified as mine meets with denial, I dread to think about the experience of people who don't have the kind of corroboration that I do. And I really worry that we're getting close to a point where it's going to be impossible to prosecute child molesters, because we don't believe children, and now we don't believe adults. (Cheit "Paper presented at the Mississippi Statewide Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect" Jackson, April 29 1994.)”
“For all this time I had had as it were a sort of dam about my heart, keeping out my love: now the walls had burst, my heart was flooded, I thought I should drown...”
Source: Fingersmith
“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
Source: The Fifth Season
“For all those times you stood by us
Through thick and thin, fast and furious
In-between Scylla and Charybdis
Midst tempests and temptations
Laudable wonders and lamentable woes,
Seasons of silence, moments of madness…
Thank You.”
Source: Deep from the Deep
“For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.”
“For all those who believe, expect a miracle.”
“For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves”
Source: The Book of Bright Ideas
“For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.”
“For all those who say its a Man world. Respect Women Its their World we are just guest here”
Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"
“For all those who seem destined to stand on the outside looking in. Inside these pages, you're free to take your mask off.”
Source: Hollow
“For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.”
Source: Pavarotti, My World
“For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.”
“For all true love is grounded on esteem.”
“For all Ty’s frightening intellect, for all his strangeness and indifference to other people, he was inseparable from his twin. If Livvy was sick, Ty slept at the foot of her bed; if she got a scratch, he panicked, and it was the same the other way around.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire