F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For Beloved's sake, try to keep track of your bonnet,' Clent broke out at last. He pulled Mosca's bonnet from a chair and dropped it on to her head. 'Running around bare-headed like a ragamuffin...' His voice trailed off.
'You'll need to find somebody else to tell you when your plans are bleedin' stupid,' Mosca said gruffly. 'Not that you ever listen to me when I do.'
'How I shall survive without the perpetual barbs of your conversation I cannot imagine,' mused Clent with a little frown, as he set Mosca's bonnet straight.”
Source: Twilight Robbery
“For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.”
Source: The Heavens
“For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.”
Source: Democracy in America
“For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.”
“For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.”
“For best results, the competitive player should never depart from his area of expertise”
“For [Beth] Davis, Fitzgerald's [Louisiana] story carried another, broader message for Americans. 'If veterans could come together so soon after the War and forgive and forget, then surely we can overcome our differences,' she said. 'Old wounds were healed here, old barriers overcome. Seems like we should be able to do the same.”
“For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient.”
Source: The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister
“For better, for worse?
Fuck. That. Shit.”
Source: It Ends with Us
“For better life quality of citizens,
The country does not need a leader who has charisma.
There is a Difference between Head of Nation and Ringmaster
The country needs a leader who has qualifications, education, knowledge, and understanding of humanity.”
Source: Zaki's Save Me
“For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...”
Source: A Three Dog Life
“For better or for worse, I don't have that kind of power. If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalise, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion today. It's about the musicians, and it's about that magic that happens in the moment.”
“For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.”
“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”
“For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.”
“For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.”
“For better or worse, come flood, famine, or the collapse of society, we cling to our history for a sense of identity and that which makes us human.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can seem noble, but they follow a potentially dangerous logic with respect to public spaces. When supposed solutions address symptoms of a problem rather than the root causes, that problem is not solved but only pushed down the street to the next block or neighborhood. Spikes beget spikes, and targeted individuals are just moved around without addressing the underlying issues.”
Source: The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
“For better or worse, he was my soul mate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”
Source: Reflected in You
“For better or worse, humans or our descendants will be responsible for life on Earth for the indefinite future. Despite the initially daunting technical challenges, the biggest obstacle to compassionate stewardship of the world's free-living nonhuman animal population is not technical or even financial but ideological.”
“For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.”
“For better or worse, it’s my childhood.”
“For better or worse, love is stronger than reason.”
Source: Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
“For better or worse, poetry is my life.”
Source: Essays After Eighty
“For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of Casia's body between her and the hearth, or the comforting drone of Ludo's snores. Or the wry laughter of a slave... a slave, for Azura's sake! The lady Soraya needed no one.
The lady Soraya cried herself to sleep.”
Source: Rise of a Hero
“For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally.”
“For better or worse, you're my fucking curse.”
Source: Cruel Orchid
“For better or worse, a lot of people's images are based on the first things that are written about them. You can't control what people write about you, so - good or bad - I have never lost sleep about it.”
“For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or broadcast can and do abuse this power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion Congress provided.”
Source: Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States
“For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into that story. It seems insanely narcissistic. But I also think there's a particular effect that comes from using my autobiography in service to another story, as opposed to being the subject. I'm much more comfortable working in that mode. And I do think I have a persona or mood that I keep coming back to: self-conscious, self-critical, unsure. I write a lot about bodies, particularly male ones, usually as a point of emphasis for my insecurities about my own.”
“For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.”
“For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay more attention to when and where I do that thinking, to be attentive to the settings in which meditation takes place. Sometimes the disconnect between the mind and the world is itself revealing, but in 'The Whole World Is Gone,' I think the setting deeply complements, indeed elicits and allows, a certain set of realizations to occur.”
“For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.”
“For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.”
“For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!”
“For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.”
“For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.”
“For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”
Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.”
“For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.”
“For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.”
“For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.”
Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and
“For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.”
“For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.”
“For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.”
“For better or worse, the United States enjoys the lion's share of public and media attention. We influence much of the conversation on social and public media by sheer volume.”
“For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.”
Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face.”