F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
“For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop.
He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.”
Source: Seraphina
“For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.”
“For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.”
“For the mighty, even to give away is grace.”
“For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B”
“For the million people who lied in Soweto, there were no stores, no bars, no restaurants. There were no paved roads, minimal electricity, inadequate sewerage. But when you put one million people together in one place, they find a way to make life for themselves.”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.”
“For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.”
“For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.”
Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year
“For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)
“For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)
“For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other.”
Source: Towards a Psychology of Education
“For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.”
“For the mind, there is no true separation from God. Even though it looks like you are separated, you are always connected. God or Consciousness is always a whole, it is One. In manifestation, you create Many.”
Source: How to Kiss the Universe: An Inspirational Spiritual and Metaphysical Narrative about Human Origin, Essence and Destiny
“For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.”
“For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.”
Source: The Secret History
“For the misfortunes that befall us and the illnesses that harass us make even a short life seem long. And so because life is a hardship, death proves to be a human being's most welcome escape, and the god, who gives us merely a taste of sweetness in life, is revealed to be a jealous deity.”
“For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.”
“For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.”
“For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is relative to the world in which it is lived. It is unreal if attempted in fantasy--as though telephones and fax machines, the Internet and E-mail did not exist. (36)”
Source: Silent Dwellers: Embracing the Solitary Life
“For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But the remedies proposed for these problems all come out of outmoded ways of thinking... The remedy? Compassion. The logical feeling that we find in ourselves if we search deeply enough that has to be exercised toward all other living creatures.”
“For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
“For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.”
“For the moment however behold me sitting with Priscilla and Francis. A domestic interior. It is about ten o'clock in the evening and the curtains are drawn.”
Source: The Black Prince
“For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!”
Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
“For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.”
“For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian)”
Source: Night Pleasures/Night Embrace
“For the moment, I’m just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.”
Source: Fated
“For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.”
“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.”
“For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.”
“For the moment, what we attend to is reality.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.”
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
of the beautiful Annabel Lee”
Source: Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
Source: Annabel Lee
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
Source: The Raven and Other Favorite Poems
“For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.”
“For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.”
Source: The burning secret: and other stories
“For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.”
“for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.”
“For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.”
“For the more he is mocked by unbelievers by so much he provides a greater witness of his divinity, because what human beings cannot understand as impossible, these he shows to be possible (cf. Matt 19.26), and what human beings mock as unseemly, these he renders fitting by his own goodness, and what human beings through sophistry laugh at as merely human, these by his power he shows to be divine, overturning the illusion of idols by his own apparent degradation through the cross, invisibly persuading those who mock and disbelieve to recognize his divinity and his power.”
Source: On the Incarnation
“For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.”
Source: Aristotle, the Physics
“For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.”
“For the most difficult way to be retweeted, or, liked: be thought-provoking. For the easiest way: quote Oprah, or, the Bible.”
“For the most effective pitch, focus 80% on the problem, 20% on the solution.”
“For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups