F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.”
“For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.”
Source: The Grand Chessboard
“For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.”
“For Americans that want Bernie Sanders version of Denmark, you can vote him in or you can go and live in Denmark. Voting for him is the easier option.”
“For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.”
Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“For Americans, the hardest part of paying reparations would not be the outlay of money. It would be acknowledging that their most cherished myth was not real.”
Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.”
“For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.”
Source: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon
“For among mortal powers, only imagination can bring back the dead.”
Source: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
“For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972
“For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.”
Source: The Prince
“For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.”
“For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane”
“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.”
“For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the scene dies; if an acrobat loses focus, their partner might die.”
“For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.”
Source: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
“For an act to be evil, you must first perceive it, process and then conceive it as such. Then these acts are effects. They’re not causes. And by this I mean that these acts are not of Stream. Now we ask the other question again. What does it take for something, here specifically Stream, to be good or evil?”
Source: The Rudeness of Soul
“For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.”
“For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.”
“For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.”
“For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.”
“For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.”
“For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.”
“For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.”
“For an actor, for me, I love being able to tap into just heavy emotions. I don't need to be balling in every scene, but I just love to feel different emotions when heading to set. It's a lot of fun to play with.”
“For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.”
“For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.”
“For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.”
“For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.”
“For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.”
“For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.”
“For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.”
“For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!”
“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.”
“For an actress who really hasn't gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage.”
“For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.”
“For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.”
“For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.”
“For an adventurous life, seek not security. Dance with uncertainty to create magnificence and beauty.”
“For an age we stood there like that, me holding him by the collar of his jacket and kissing him for all I was worth, him standing there, hands up like I was frisking him with no idea what to do about it.
It. Was. Awesome.”
Source: Spirit and Dust
“For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a field of corn, not to think of himself as a corn person suggests either a failure of imagination or a triumph of capitalism.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.”
“For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth is that the policies of the government is sometimes in conflict with that. In our country, patriotism should not be defined as obedience to an authority.”
“For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.”
Source: The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever
“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.”
Source: Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes
“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.”
Source: A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You
“For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!”
“For an artist, screams of adoration and praise is the reward for spilling your guts on the stage”