F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For every man exists in the world the way a body exists in water: the moment you leave, the space you occupied will close over. What is left is not even the shape of your body, but the memory of it. There is no such thing as return. We leave one place. We arrive at another. But the person who arrives is never the person who left. We grow. We change.”
Source: The Same Earth
“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”
Source: Novels, 1942-1952
“For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.”
“For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.”
Source: A Scientific Education
“For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.”
Source: Night Film
“For every man there is a deep longing”
“For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“For every man there was an inferior woman, for every writer there was a checker," said Nora Ephron. "they were the artists and we were the drones.”
Source: The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
“For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.”
Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.”
Source: Watch on the Rhine: Acting Ed. Play in Three Acts
“For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.”
Source: Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women
“For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.”
Source: Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed
“For every man, peace of soul is precious.”
“For every man, peace of soul is precious. With those who have attained peace of soul, the body can be in constant motion; in work, in pain, but their souls, affixed to God, always remain in unwavering peace.”
“for every marriage that is made in Heaven, there is a marriage made in Hell.”
“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
“For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.”
Source: Tagore and Gandhi Argue
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
“FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU SPEND WORRYING ABOUT THINGS IN LIFE,
YOU LOSE A PRECIOUS MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE.”
“For every minute, the future is becoming the past.”
“For every mistake is a lesson and for every lesson learned is victory.”
“For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.”
“For every moment I smile, I've endured a thousand frowns”
“For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving”
“For every moment of suffering,
Others will arrive
That will instead pierce you with joy.”
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
“For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life”
“For every moment she's held together, there's another where she's fallen to pieces.”
Source: Five Total Strangers
“For every moment stolen from you,
I'll double it in strength.
For every lie told against you,
I'll avenge it with peace of mind over your life.
For every enemy gathering formed against you,
I'll bind their words back to them.
Said my Yahweh.
And I said, let it be.”
“For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.”
“For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.”
“For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.”
“For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.”
Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
“For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.”
“For every mountain, there is a miracle.”
“For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.”
“For every negative, there's a positive. It's in everything. How you deal with life, outlook, how much energy you put into achieving something. That's why I detest entitlement. Anything that's worthwhile is going to call for some sacrifice. Nothing worthwhile will come to you without a price. People think in sports, you have different rules. You really don't. It's whatever motivates you.”
“For every Nesta out there - climb the mountain.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem.”
“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.”
“For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce.”
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
“For every nonsense that is written, there is a sense behind the ‘non’. Not until we go behind the ‘non’, we shall least see the sense. If we stand in front of the nonsense, the ‘non’ shall always face us. It may only take a step taking to go behind the 'non' to see the sense the ‘non’ is obstructing. There are so many people who quit so quickly just because they look at the non in front of the sense and they conclude that sense can never come after ‘non’.”
“For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!”
“For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.”
“For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.”
“For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.”
“For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.”