F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.”
“For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.”
“For avarice begins where poverty ends.”
“For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?”
Source: Daemon
“For AVPs, if they find that they are upset and see a caring spouse become upset with them, it is a release. However, since these are repeated patterns and no stable patterns are maintained, the spouse often becomes more anxious and does hold this anxiety. The AVP is able to see this, at some level. The increased agitation has the effect of keeping the spouse preoccupied and more distant. Nothing is seemingly moving forward. The spouse, like the AVP, can become stuck. June and Doug can both be anxious, distant, or preoccupied. Avoidants have found that they can transfer some of their avoidant and angry responses to other family members. In doing this, their intention is to transfer some of their anxieties to another person to act out or hold for them. This can occur due to living together or can be part of the AVP’s messages that a family member hears and then displays. This effect of transferred anxieties can be experienced by the children, the spouse, and maybe even the family pets. The AVP’s inability to positively confront situations produces many scenarios. Unfortunately, this can often produce in others a negative image of the person acting on behalf of the AVP. This, at some level, registers for the AVP, and shame and guilt become the results of this active/passive position.”
Source: Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
“For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.”
Source: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults you - listen to it in full awareness. And you will be surprised - the insult is no more an insult. You may even smile. It does not hurt; it hurts only when received in unawareness. Somebody praises and appreciates you - listen with alertness. And then nobody can persuade you to do foolish things. Nobody can bribe you; flattery becomes impossible. You will smile at the whole nonsense.”
“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.”
“For awhile, I thought that was love. -Gaara”
“For AXE to take a chance on me and to help me, you know, collaborating with them was just a really, really big deal for me. It shows that they bought into me and vice versa so it's a good relationship.”
“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
“For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned.”
“For ballroom dancing, remember that your partners have their own distinctive styles also. Cultivate flexibility. Be able to adapt your style to that of your partner. In doing so, you are not surrendering your individuality, but blending it with that of your partner.”
“For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present.”
Source: Future Value Generation: Do you need to create new Business Logics?
“For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.”
“For Beatrice- I would much prefer it if you were alive and well.”
Source: The Wide Window
“For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.”
“For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.”
“For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.”
“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.”
“For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.”
“For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.”
“For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.”
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” — Audrey Hepburn”
Source: Audrey Hepburn 2019 Calendar
“For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.”
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.”
Source: Duino Elegies
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.”
“For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.”
Source: Collected Poems
“For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.”
Source: The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems and The Pleasures of Memory
“For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.”
“For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.”
“For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.”
“For behaviors and habits to be stable and predictable, one’s environment needs to be stable and predictable.”
Source: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
“For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.”
“For behind is our animality and before us our humanity; human light, the only thing that can warm and enlighten us, the only thing that can emancipate us, give us dignity, freedom, and happiness, and realize fraternity among us, is never at the beginning, but, relatively to the epoch in which we live, always at the end of history.”
Source: God and the State
“For being a bad student I was banished to the 'calaboose' - a bare cell with whitewashed walls and a bench to sit on. I liked it there, because I took along a sketch pad and drew incessantly I could have stayed there forever drawing without stopping”
“For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.”
“For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.”
“For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.”
“For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.”
Source: The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life
“For being left behind,
learned to say goodbye
before being left behind again.”
“For being the best in the world is not possible, to be the worst in the world is also not possible, in between is always possible.”
“For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut, Berlin and Baghdad. And Cairo is a city that has a scar that was born after many decades of dictatorship - oppression shaped the people's lives, and forced people to grow up accompanied by fear. I belong to a generation that, whether we like it or not, was shaped by this fear of death or loosing the people you love, the threat of war, not allowed to be yourself, forced to be silent - as you watch ignorance occupying everything around you. And this is a deep scar.”
“For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.”
“For believers to "follow Jesus" implies, among other things, adopting the same attitude towards God's Word as Jesus had. Becoming like Christ involves accepting his example as one who reads the Bible. It means defining ourselves and our purpose in life in light of the Bible. Following Christ also means practicing what the Bible says. Simply put, we cannot truthfully say that we are followers of Jesus if we neglect or refuse to obey what the Bible tells us, or if we use it in self-serving ways that are not what God originally intended.”
Source: Read the Bible for a Change: Understanding and Responding to God's Word
“For believers who pray the same prayers week after week, who come to the Communion table expecting to be changed, we must claim that it is possible for lives to be rescripted. We must assert that it's possible for habits and language to be reshaped by a different, more powerful story. The seeds for critiquing our behavior, - indeed, for critiquing the tradition itself - are there inside the narrative we claim. The radical call of faith is not to insist upon a set of universal principles about right and wrong, but to offer an alternative story by which lives can be shaped into new instincts, new practices, new ways of speaking and being in the world. We want our teens to make a decision consistent with the better story of which they are a part, a decision that doesn't even feel like a decision but a script they know by heart.”
Source: A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time
“For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“For beloved cross every pass
Worldly affairs slow their pace
A flowing brook amidst the grass
Flowing tears his face shall trace
His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface
Sense the Divine in spirit and mass
If he is truly seeking grace”
Source: دیوان كلیات شمس تبریزی