F Quotes
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“For the new puritans, nothing need be explained or rationalized, because objective truth has become subordinated to -lived experience-. Where Marx saw society as an ongoing competition for resources and power between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie (a development from Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic), the high priests of Critical Social Justice see society as stratified according to identity politics.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
“For the newborn and wise, everything begins small.”
“For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.”
“For the next 16 hours, fueled by coffee and amphetamines, I wrestled with John Lennon's scrawls and codes and symbols. As I transcribed his words, I said them out loud like an incantation, and I began to feel Lennon's energy flowing through me.”
Source: Nowhere Man: Los últimos días de John Lennon
“For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.”
“For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.”
“For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.”
“For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“For the next decade, Pacelli would watch with disgust as Nazi beliefs emerged.”
Source: Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within
“For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.”
“For the next eight and a half months, you're going to be mine. Every. Night.”
Source: Lethal Rider: Number 3 in series
“For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“For the next forty minutes, Luna and I learned everything there was to know about seahorses. We watched a male seahorse giving birth to a gazillion baby seahorses and laughed. She laughed because there were so many. I did because it looked like a man shooting his load after watching the filthiest porn ever recorded.”
Source: Scandalous
“For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.”
Source: The poetical works of William Somervile, with the life of the author. Cooke's ed
“For the next life, screw everybody. Oh who am I fooling? I don't want a next life. I just want a nap.”
Source: Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon
“For the next nine months, Sylvia would report on campus trends, politics, tastes, style. It was an honor, but it was grueling. Sylvia was overworked. She had boyfriend problems. She longed for Europe. She broke her leg in a skiing accident. Her best friend, Marcia Brown, had gotten engaged and moved off campus - other girls were away on their junior year abroad. The whole campus seemed mired in some bleak haze- there were suicide attempts, abortions, disappearances, and hasty marriages. Sylvia coped with shopping binges in downtown Northhampton- sheer blouses, French pumps, red cashmere sweaters, white skirts, and tight black pullovers - clothes more suited to voguish amusements than studying. Everyone wanted to be one of Mademoiselle's guest editors, but Sylvia needed it - some shot of glamour to pull her out of the mud.”
Source: Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
“For the next quarters of a century, spiritualism, with its benevolent view of the soul and advocacy of social reform, was a serious concern for many suffragists.”
Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
“For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.”
“For the next several minutes we forgot about scones and lollipops and SATs and politicians and the Secret Service and hovered in a blissful place, population of two—Max and me. When I was kissing Max, the rest of the world, and all my problems faded away.”
Source: Secrets of a First Daughter
“For the next two months I kept Action Park at an emotional distance, the way a kid thinks about Christmas in September or an adult thinks about that STD test they should probably get after a long weekend in Miami.”
“For the next two years, singing was the only time I didn't stutter. I sang for everything I wanted, like some Disney princess making a wish.”
Source: Open Book
“For the night is dark and full of terrors.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.”
Source: DON JUAN
“For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
“For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.”
Source: The Chimes
“For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.”
“For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.”
Source: Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups
“For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.”
“For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.”
“For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.”
Source: Edward Weston on photography
“For the obvious reasons, furthering my children's education and keeping my family healthy and thriving is my highest mission.”
“For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.”
“For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.”
Source: The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes
“For the one last time, I want to go back,
To the beginning, where it all started,
Not to fix anything,
Not to mend anything,
To detect the force that’s pulling me back and forth,
To look for the string that’s messing with my vulnerabilities,
Not to play around with my haunting memories,
Not to sit around my screaming roars,
But to crush the last resilient chord,
That's stopping me from moving on.”
Source: Muse Buzz
“For the one that loved, the nightmare, it was simple. It never had been, but was all in their mind.”
“For the one whose adverse internal meditation that results in hurting the self (artadhyan) and adverse internal meditation that results in hurting the self and others (raudradhyan) have ceased, he can attain final liberation in just one more lifetime (ekavtari).”
Source: Harmony in Marriage
“For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive”
“For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands”
“For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.”
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“For the only reason (I came to think) for God to inspire the Bible would be so that his people would have his actual words; but if he really wanted people to have his actual words, surely he would have miraculously preserved those words, just as he had miraculously inspired them in the first place. Given the circumstances that he didn't preserve the words, the conclusion seemed inescapable to me that he hadn't gone to the trouble of inspiring them.”
“For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.”
“For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.”
Source: Will therapy: an analysis of the therapeutic process in terms of relationship
“For the only time in my career, I came in and met Tony [Richardson] for the part - I did not read, I just met with him - and in the middle of the meeting, he told me that I had the part [in The Hotel New Hampshire]. There was never, "Well, thank you, and we'll have my people call your people." There was none of that kabuki that goes on now endlessly for even the smallest role.”
“For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.”
“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”
Source: Watt
“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.”
“For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays