F Quotes
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“For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.”
“For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.”
“For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.”
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“For as the Good is only a single thing, so all ways lead to the Good, even the false ones: when the repentant one follows the same way back.”
Source: Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession
“For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.”
Source: Politics
“For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“For as the old saying is,
When house and land are gone and spent
Then learning is most excellent.”
Source: The Dramatic Works: Of Samuel Foote, Esq. To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author. In Two Volumes. ...
“For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked.
and thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise. So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor.”
Source: City of God
“For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.”
Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates
“For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.”
Source: The Letters of David Hume:
“For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself”
Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750
“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”
Source: Human Nature and other Sermons
“For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.”
“For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.”
Source: King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
“For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,
The learned hold, are animals;
So horses they affirm to be
Mere engines made by geometry”
Source: Hudibras
“For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.”
“For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.”
“For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.”
“For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)
“For at a certain point in time even the greatest architecture ceases to be completely architecture and becomes partially landscape. Sometimes the wheel at last turns full circles; the pyramids are now wholly landscape, Stonehenge but faintly architecture.
from the essay What should we preserve? in The Future of the Past”
“For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.”
“For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.”
Source: Essays in persuasion
“For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .”
“For at least the last few hundred years, it is the fate of conservatives to always be losing, but not quite yet. And it is the fate of progressives to always be winning, but not fast enough. The result is that progressives are winning, but only conservatives can see it. So everyone is miserable.”
Source: Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide
“For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.”
“For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?”
“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”
Source: Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience
“For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action.”
“For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.”
Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
“For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.”
Source: The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness
“For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the people.”
Source: Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure
“For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.”
“For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.”
Source: The voice of things
“For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.”
Source: The Hour of the Star
“For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.”
“for at udnytte denne kreativitet må vi til tider trække os tilbage og reflektere over udfordringerne. Vi må have ro. Hjernen kan ikke være kreativ og udvikle nye løsningsmodeller, når den er presset. Er den under pres, kører den på automatikken, og så gør du bare det, som du altid har gjort.”
Source: Stress - Grib Chancen For Et Bedre (Arbejds)Liv
“For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.”
“For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!”
“For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.”
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
Source: In One Era & Out the Other
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.”
“For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”
“For Australia to maintain its place in the world, we must look at new ways to market our products and culture to the world, our future depends on it.”
Source: Getting into Advertising, Marketing and Selling Australia
“For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.”
“For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.”
Source: One Taste
“For authoritarians such as Lenin and Žižek, the dichotomy in politics is state power or no power, but I refuse to concede that these are the only options. Genuine politics is about the movement between these poles, and it takes place through the creation of what I call "interstitial distance" within the state.”