F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.”
Source: Anchorwoman
“For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.”
Source: What It Is Like To Go To War
“For every victory there is a price.”
“For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue.”
“For every vision there is a greater provision.”
“For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one Rembrandt. Purposely, I think I want to aim at doing something that a lot of people won't like. I'm just worried that it looks like I've compared my work with Rembrandt. "Gervais says he's better than Rembrandt!".”
“For every way someone can be lost, we want to provide a practical way for them to be found in the very place they have ended up.”
“For every Way there's a way of following that Way that's fun”
“For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argument opposing it.”
Source: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
“For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.”
“For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.”
“For every wizened female tortoise there's a male tortoise who thinks she's irresistible.”
Source: Maybe This Time
“For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.”
“For every woman, there is that one man who could get her to go anywhere he wanted her to go, do anything he wanted her to do—reach into her soul and turn her whole world on its ear—challenge everything she thought she believed.
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“For every woman who burned a bra, there's a man burning to wear one.”
“For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.”
“For every woman you know who has been given substandard treatment by her parents, used by her friend or boyfriend, abused by her husband, discriminated by her employers and ridiculed by society, I know a man who has been burdened with family responsibility since childhood, humiliated by his girlfriend, bullied by his employers, pushed by society and harassed by his wife. Everybody is fighting their own battle.”
“For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.”
“For every wound, the ointment of time.”
Source: Falls the Shadow: A Novel
“For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.”
Source: A Mother s Side of War
“For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.”
“For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.”
“For everybody has a natural right not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.”
“For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.”
“For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.”
Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen
“For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.”
“For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.”
“For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.”
“For everyday purposes, we know and can say, e.g., whether an animal is alive or not. But, upon closer inquiry, we find that this is, in many cases, a very complex question, as the jurists know very well. They have cudgelled their brains in vain to discover a rational limit beyond which the killing of the child in its mother's womb is murder. It is just as impossible to determine absolutely the moment of death, for physiology proves that death is not an instantaneous, momentary phenomenon, but a very protracted process.
In like manner, every organized being is every moment the same and not the same; every moment, it assimilates matter supplied from without, and gets rid of other matter; every moment, some cells of its body die and others build themselves anew; in a longer or shorter time, the matter of its body is completely renewed, and is replaced by other molecules of matter, so that every organized being is always itself, and yet something other than itself.”
“For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.”
“For everyday, Rebecca Minkoff's collection is chic and comfortable at the same time.”
“For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.”
Source: Abhorsen
“For everyone has a destiny. A destiny not found in the pages of a hefty book; a destiny not found in heaven or in hell. No, our destinies are embedded in our bodies.”
Source: Flaws of Oblivion
“For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.”
“For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.”
“For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?”
“For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.”
Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice
“For everyone out there, who is watching your loved ones dancing with someone else, for the songs that you had written for them. Remember this. Not everyone can come up with beautiful compositions. It takes a heart that knows no boundaries, and a soul that shines with a light, that can make even the gods go blind. They took away your song, but not your soul. Start writing the new ones, and you will eventually find someone who will sing every song written by you, beautifully, and only for you.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“For everyone that doesn't want to endorse Donald Trump or doesn't even want to support him, they should realize he actually has a connection to his voters.”
“For everyone who acts, there is someone who counteracts.”
“For everyone who never smiled in school
photos, for all who’ve wandered city streets
not knowing the where they were
or feeling alone, I’ve packed kindness.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“For everyone who's afraid of making mistakes.
To err is to be human. Give yourself some grace.”
Source: Crossed
“For everyone who's ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping.”
Source: I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
“For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!”
“For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.”
“For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.”
“For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.”
“For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.”
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General
“For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.”