F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For the gay and lesbian community, even though I'm not gay I think its really important to speak out for people that aren't necessarily dealing with the same circumstances you're dealing with and don't have the benefit of the health care system or the government that you do.”
“For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.”
Source: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
“For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.”
Source: Osler's
“For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER”
“For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.”
Source: Storm Seed
“For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.”
Source: Blu's Hanging
“For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.”
Source: The Writings of Bret Harte
“For the goddess was only a figment of Valia’s inner pantheon, which she herself ruled, an adjunct to Valia. As magic was. Which might explain why her talent was so poor.”
Source: Cyrion
“For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.”
“For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.”
“For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.”
“For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900
“For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.”
Source: Hostage
“For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.”
Source: The splendour of enlightenment (sambodhipabhāsakathā: a life of the Buddha
“For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do.”
Source: A Hard And Heavy Thing
“For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.”
Source: Euripides
“For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself a
good, and makes goodness arise even from evils by
opposing them or enduring them with courage.”
“For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.”
“For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.”
“For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.”
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”
“For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.”
Source: Notes on Life and Letters
“For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.”
“For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil.”
“For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.”
“For the greater part of human history, and in places in the world today, common resources were the rule. But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything ins a commodity to be bought and sold. The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world. But it it just a story we have told ourselves and we are free to tell another, to reclaim the old one.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.”
Source: THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship
“For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.”
“For the growth of a business, we have to evolve whenever the time, environment and people around us change.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.”
“For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.”
“For the Gypsy, it’s moments in time that count, not interpretations or rhetorical questions or resolutions or justifications, and not even the journey’s end, for the journey never ends. Just moments in time. They are born for disappearing”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”
“For the hand of a beauty with honest words and sensibilities so mighty.“
Though your mother and father had hoped for something more fragile (and flighty),”
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“For the hard roads, you must have good shoes! And your brain and your luck are your best shoes ever!”
“For the hauntings chasing
each one of us.
Run. Faster.”
“For,the heart of a child ,pleases God;untouched by praise or criticism.”
“For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.”
Source: Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley
“For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.”
“For the heavenly Logos, a spirit emanating from the Father and a Logos from the Logos-power, in imitation of the Father who begot Him made man an image of immortality, so that, as incorruption is with God, in like manner, man, sharing in a part of God, might have the immortal principle also. The Logos, too, before the creation of men, was the Framer of angels. And each of these two orders of creatures was made free to act as it pleased, not having the nature of good, which again is with God alone, but is brought to perfection in men through their freedom of choice, in order that the bad man may be justlypunished, having become depraved through his own fault, but the just man be deservedly praised for his virtuous deeds, since in the exercise of his free choice he refrained from transgressing the will of God. Such is the constitution of things in reference to angels and men. And the power of the Logos, having in itself a faculty to foresee future events, not as fated, but as taking place by the choice of free agents, foretold from time to time the issues of things to come; it also became a forbidder of wickedness by means of prohibitions, and the encomiast of those who remained good. And, when men attached themselves to one who was more subtle than the rest, having regard to his being the first-born, and declared him to be God, though he was resisting the law of God, then the power of the Logos excluded the beginner of the folly and his adherents from all fellowship with Himself. And so he who was made in the likeness of God, since the more powerful spirit is separated from him, becomes mortal; but that first-begotten one through his transgression and ignorance becomes a demon; and they who imitated him, that is his illusions, have become a host of demons, and through their freedom of choice have been given up to their own infatuation.”
Source: Tatian's Address To The Greeks
“For the Hebrews, names provided a direct link with the Creator. They understood words as being the creative fire of God, the ‘black fire on white fire’ of His Law. Every utterance and every act of creation through which He revealed Himself was not only word made flesh but fire made flesh.
The word for ‘being’, yesh, ‘to exist’ or ‘to have substance’ was flame–breathed.
The word for ‘fire’, esh, was embedded in the word for ‘being’ and in the very notion of ‘being human’.
The rabbis were said to have asked: Why is the word for ‘woman’, ishah? Because she is fire, esh. Why is the word for ‘man’, ish? Because he too is fire, esh.
They noted that when the Hebrew letters for ‘man’ and ‘woman’ came together they produced a new word as part of the union: yah, a reference to Yahweh, the Name of God.”
Source: God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name
“For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.”
“For the herds of wild elephants show no resentment when domesticated animals join them. They have none of that herd instinct directed against the stranger that one finds in cattle, in small boys and among many grown-up men. This tolerance is just one of the things about elephants which makes one realise they are big in more ways than one.”
Source: Elephant Bill
“For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying.”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.”
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.”