F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.”
“For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.”
Source: A Passion for the Possible
“For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.”
“For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.”
“For Christmas I give my mother an uncomfortable truth.
She wears it when I visit.”
Source: Songs My Enemy Taught Me
“For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.”
“For Christmas the just came out with a battery-operated battery. But the batteries aren't included.”
“For Christmas when I was about four I got given 'Can the can' by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks "Ego is not a Dirty Word.... I was sorta listening to the Beatles and stuff the whole time since I was about ten anyway, then I started getting into Kiss and David Bowie at the same time”
“For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.”
“For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out”
“For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.”
“For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.”
“For Cities, the ability to treat its residents equitably is a plus for the S in ESG.”
“For Cities, the presence of good leadership is a plus for the G in ESG, and it makes the city a better bond issuer.”
“For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.”
“for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”
“For class is a type of bubble, a membrane around one, and although one might grow within this membrane, and strain against it, it is impossible to break free from it. And a man of nobility is always such in his soul, however he may fall; and a man of humble sort is always such in his soul, however he may climb.”
Source: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
“For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.”
Source: Works of Francis Bacon: 3
“For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“For clothes, I prefer black, but I love all shades of blue, especially peacock, navy, and teal." He pauses. "I also like the color of your eyes, clear like the sky---"
I stumble, tripping over my own two feet. "You noticed my eyes?"
"Of course, we were together for most of the day." He nudges my side with his elbow. "They're much prettier when you're not glaring at me. And you?"
I'm thrown for a loop. Is he asking if I like his liquid-brown with a hint of green and completely hypnotic eyes?”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.”
“For Coca-Cola, they wanted a hippie-looking girl to walk around the city with a bucket of chicken sitting in Central Park, sitting on Central Park South, walking along all these different areas of New York that people are familiar with, and just eating this bucket of chicken. I got that commercial too. I think it was just part of my personality that was different from just a regular, nice-looking girl that was more of a model-y type. I injected a little more energy into everything I did.”
“For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.”
Source: Austenland: A Novel
“For collaboration to be effective; when we come together we must put aside our interests and agendas, and unite.”
“For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.”
“For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.”
“For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.”
“For Commander Ripley Jones, it was becoming more and more troublesome. It had been said that nothing is infallible, Antares apparently being the proof. After hastily recalling all crew and leaving Spacedock 7 thirty hours ago, there had been nothing but problems. Breakdowns in the sensors and telemetry, system failures of a wide variety and finally – the Last Straw: a coupling seal in the stardrive engine failed. Fortunately the cut-out worked, or the whole of engineering would’ve disappeared in a flaming ball of anti-matter. Five crewmen were seriously injured as it was. Commander Smith, the Chief Entech, had the offending unit stripped down and under repair. They were currently on conversion drive - which could only propel them at sub-light speeds – and Ripley was currently in an elevator with a very pissed Captain Falconer.”
Source: Blachart
“For common instinct of our race declares
That body of itself exists: unless
This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not,
Naught will there be whereunto to appeal
On things occult when seeking aught to prove
By reasonings of mind.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans
“For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.”
“For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly communicate, I see in you a life that is not me and partake of it. And you see and partake of me. In a small way we then grow out of our old selves and become something new. To have this kind of sharing I cannot enter into a conversation clutching myself. I must enter into it with loose boundaries. I must give myself to the relationship, and be willing to be what grows out of it.”
Source: Notes to Myself
“For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“For compassion to work between people, we have to be honest about our feelings, motives, and experiences. Most people aren't.”
Source: Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get Results
“For compatibility in love relationships, it’s especially important to read facial contrasts, where you have something very different from your partner. Opposites attract. Find out, specifically, why.”
Source: Read People Deeper: Body Language + Face Reading + Auras
“For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement. I am no economist, but I venture to suggest that one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer is worth more dead than alive. A second law is that anything diseased is more profitable than anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us contributes more to the "gross national product" than what is right with us.”
“For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.”
“For Confucians, we are such thoroughly social beings that individual and social interests are not in the end regarded as fundamentally incompatible. Though there will be conflicts, the central mission of moral and political philosophy is to foster approaches that will render them compatible or if that is not possible in some cases, to keep a reasonable balance so that neither side is consistently sacrificed for the sake of the other.”
“For Connor it’s not about stupidity, or even rebellion—it’s about feeling life.
Sitting on this ledge, hidden behind an exit sign is where he feels most comfortable.
Sure, one false step and he’s roadkill.
Yet for Connor, life on the edge is home.”
Source: Unwind
“For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.”
“For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.”
“For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.”
“For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.”
“For conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try how.”
Source: Shakespeare's Women: A Playscript for Performance and Analysis
“For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.”
“For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.”
“For context, the budget of Don Jon is about half the budget of (500) Days of Summer. And (500) Days of Summer is about a third of the budget of the lowest-budget movies produced at a major studio.”
“For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.”
“For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.”
Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political
“For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit.”
Source: The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media
“For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.”