F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For falling in love, is there a maximum age?
Who ever said that? Which book or sage?”
Source: The Old Man & She!
“For fame is ultimately but the summary of all misunderstandings that crystallize about a new name”
Source: Poems
“For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.”
“For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.”
“For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.”
“For fantastically corrupt practices, look no further than the City of London”
“For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
“For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.”
“For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.”
“For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.”
“For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.”
“For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.”
“For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.”
“For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.”
“For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.”
“For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.”
“For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.”
“For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves”
Source: The Experience of Childbirth
“For fast-acting relief try slowing down.”
“For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.”
“For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.”
“for fear is all the blind future harrying us and when the scales drop away the fear goes too”
Source: The Thing Itself
“For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.”
“For fear of seeming sentimental, many of us hold back expressions of warmth and thereby miss out on rich and profound friendships.”
Source: The Friendship Factor: Revised, 25th Anniversary Edition
“For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.”
“For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.”
Source: Cry, the beloved country: a verse drama
“For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.”
“For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition
“For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.”
“For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.”
Source: Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice
“For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for “just girls” when they see our makeup and fashions, but we were/are actually guerrilla warriors, fighting undercover in the war to save women from the continuing campaign to make us irrelevant fluff.”
“For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse...”
Source: The odyssey
“For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse; few are better than their father is.”
Source: The odyssey
“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,”
Source: Wealth of Words
“For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.”
“For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.”
“For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which every day was tedious, and when they were gone it was as if they had gone in a flash.”
Source: The History of Mr. Polly
“For fifteen years they exerted pressure, at first without violence, marching with banners, invading meetings, getting arrested, putting on hunger strikes, marching on Parliament..In 1912 more violent tactics were adopted: they burned houses, slashed pictures, trampled flowerbeds, threw stones at police, overwhelmed Lloyd George and Sir Edward Grey with repeated delegations, interrupted public speeches.”
“For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.”
“For fifty years our politicians have worked to create the illusion that there is such a thing as a uniform Italy. The regions were supposed to disappear into the nation, dialects into literary languages. Sicily is the region that has most actively resisted the breaking down of history and freedom. On numerous occasions Sicily has shown itself to be more than a region, and to have a national character of its own.”
“For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev. He called for a Eurasian security system, with no military blocs. He called it a Common European Home. No military blocs, no Warsaw Pact. Just an integrated security system with no conflicts.Now the other vision was presented by George Bush, this is the "statesman".”
“For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'”
“For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.”
“For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.”
“For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.”