F Quotes
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“For an instant, he took his eyes off the road. She was smiling. Not at him, but at the certainty of the coming-true of the plans they both were making.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.”
Source: Tell Me When I'm Dead
“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”
Source: Journey to Ixtlan
“For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.”
“For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be — or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.”
Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle
“For an instant, silence, nosier than a waterfall.”
Source: Midnight’s Children
“For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.”
“For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.”
“For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.”
“For an investor who is sitting in the United States, and South Africa is very far from the United States, you need to go out to that investor to say, these are the possibilities in this particular sector.”
“For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of "No.”
Source: Puppies
“For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.”
Source: The State of Europe
“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”
“For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.”
“For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.”
“For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods like an occupying army. It's suppression of blacks, and it's revenue enhancement. Surveillance is a Band-Aid. That's like saying, "Let's surveil the SS." No! Let's get rid of the SS!”
“For an organization that has expressly denied religious standing and publicly claims a secular—even scientific—approach, it is curious that AA retains these explicit references to a spiritual power whose care might help light the way toward recovery. Even for addicts who opt to interpret this step secularly, the problem persists: why can’t this ultimate power lie within the addict?”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“For an organization with ample resources that is dependent on multiple individuals, goal setting is incredibly powerful.
For individuals themselves though, long term goal setting is more of a recipe for frustration and burnout, especially if they are goals not within your direct control and your self-worth is tied to that goal.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
“For an uncertain reason, he felt pulled to her
against all his fears, his intentions, and his
experiences. All his mind could do was how
to get close to this person in blood and flesh.”
Source: I Saw The Devil
“For an unknown thing to have verisimilitude, it had to be different, but in recognisable ways; it had to include some likeness, and yet hold the promise of surpassing the known.”
Source: From Here on, Monsters
“For an unrelated reason, I was fortunate to be in London to witness a set of extraordinary festivities commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne of England. Although the queen had been traveling the globe for months to Commonwealth nations hosting Golden Jubilee events in her name, the celebrations peaked on June 4, 2002, with a program on the Mall in London that drew over a million well-wishers from around Britain and the world. The marked adulation surprised many in the national press who’d predicted the Jubilee would be a fizzle, demonstrating the modern-day irrelevance of the British monarchy in general and of Her Royal Highness in particular.
The opposite proved to be the case. In the several weeks’ run-up to June 4, throngs within the United Kingdom flocked to dedications, parades, concerts, and special proceedings honoring the queen, which she honored in turn with her presence. Especially coveted were invitations to small parties where it was sometimes possible to be addressed personally by the queen in a receiving line.
Of course, the opportunity to meet Elizabeth II under any circumstances would be considered exceptional; but the chance to meet her amid the pomp and pageantry of the Golden Jubilee added even more significance to such occasions, which were widely reported by the media. One report stood out from all the others for me. A young woman moving through a reception line at one of the small fêtes experienced the horror of hearing the cell phone in her purse begin to ring just as she met the queen. Flustered and frozen with embarrassment as her phone pealed insistently, she stared helplessly into the royal eyes that had become fixed on her bag. Finally, Elizabeth leaned forward and advised, “You should answer that, dear. It might be someone important.”
Source: Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
“For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles.”
Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
“For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.”
“For Angelica, relationships were like the flower arrangement she was hiding behind. She plucked a white rose out of it and sniffed at it. Right now, they were beautiful. Perfect. Pristine with a shockingly beautiful scent. But in a day or two, they would be wilting, messily thrown in a waste bin.”
Source: Not A Book
“For animals culture and country may come first, as humans the whole world must be our priority.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.”
“For animals, the confinement of the body is the confinement of the whole being, but a person can choose freedom even when he has no physical autonomy. In order to do so, he must know what choice is, and he must believe that he deserves it. By sharing stories, we keep choice alive in the imagination and in language. We give each other the strength to perform choice in the mind even when we cannot perform it with the body.”
Source: The Art of Choosing
“For Anne and our cub,
for making me and my life less beastly”
Source: The Ritual
“For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature. All "spirit and fire and dew," as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity. Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.”
“For anthropologists, even the exotic’s not exotic, let alone the everyday.”
Source: Satin Island
“For ants, service to the colony is everything. As individual workers approach natural death, it benefits the colony more for the old to spend their last days in dangerous occupations. The Darwinian logic is clear: for the colony, the aged have little to offer and are dispensable.”
Source: Tales from the Ant World
“For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up Its a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If youre not, he pokes at you until you react. Hes very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.”
“For any addict, when you get sober, life becomes more challenging, in some ways, because all of your problems become very clear and you have to deal with your pain. You can't just drink and forget about it and pretend it doesn't exist. You have to actually face it, head on.”
“For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.”
“For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.”
“For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.”
“For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?”
“For any business decision, there are only two choices: action or inaction. The best option is to take action." - Ramesh Lohia and Jack T. Parker, consultants, iSixSigmaKaizen . In Quality Quotes, February 25, 2015, Knowledge Center, ASQ [ AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY]”
“For any business to endure in today's ever changing global economy, there has to be a willingness and an ability for that business to consistently renew itself and redefine itself and revitalize itself.”
“For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.”
“For any CEO that is skeptical at all: you have to create a social enterprise today!”
“For any child, and in a way for any human being, forever was an impossibly long time. Sarah had begun to realize, however, that it was never as long as one expected. It was the time spent in one’s childhood home, running in endless fields and gazing at infinite stars. It was the time a boy spent on Earth, laughing and loving and living. It was the time it took to heal a heart that had been shattered by loss. It was eternal, it seemed, until suddenly it was not.”
Source: Sweepings of the Street
“For any country victory over political differences, social injustice and economic crisis are necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.”
“For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.”
“For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.”
“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.”
“For any day to be an extraordinary day, it only needs to be a 'day', for all the times of existence are loaded with extraordinariness!”
“For any dimension in our architecture that requires protection from the side effects of evolution, we create fitness functions. A common practice in microservices architectures is the use of consumer-driven contracts, which are atomic integration architecture fitness functions.”
Source: Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
“For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.”