F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.”
Source: Timebends: A Life
“For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.”
Source: The Border Trilogy
“For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.”
“for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.”
“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”
“For the poor, for those who want to serve, the only place left for such people is BJP. When someone joins the BJP family, it is not only about membership, we strengthen relationships.”
“For the poor, the economic is spiritual.”
“For the possibility of Being Human to truly blossom, you must establish that your external circumstances should not dictate what is happening within you.”
Source: Death: An Inside Story
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.”
Source: The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward
“For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ: I give Thee thanks, O God.”
Source: A diary of private prayer
“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
“For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.”
Source: The Hour Of God: Art of living
“For the prayerful, miracles are possible, because God is still faithful.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.”
“For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!”
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Source: Image and Imagination
“For the present, it is easier for us to turn away. Our repulsion, you see, will not spur us to revolt until this plague moves much closer to home.”
Source: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
“For the present system to work, poor people must be excluded from the innovation, because if they could get access at an affordable price, then affluent people would find ways to buy it cheaply as well - and then the innovator would be poorly rewarded and introductions of new medicines would decline.”
“for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.”
Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell
“For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.”
“For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.”
“For the price of a few battleships, we could give you a healthy nation. We have the knowledge, the skill, the material resources; but those in power prefer to use them for destroying their competitors and safeguarding their own profits.”
Source: There's Trouble Brewing
“For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.”
Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
“For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
“For the primo piatto, the chef had chosen to serve a dish he called gnocchi- small dumplings made with potato flour. It was an unusual dish as potatoes were a rarity from the New World and largely unknown. The gnocchi were simply dressed in browned butter and sage and then dusted with freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. It was a plain presentation with no garnish, and it was accompanied by a white table wine of no special distinction.
My mouth watered as I carried the gnocchi up to the dining room. I'd tasted one dumpling in the kitchen, and I loved the earthy flavor as well as the way it resisted when I sank my teeth in. The butter and sage coated my mouth so that the taste lasted even after I swallowed. I liked the way it felt in my stomach, solid and nourishing, and I looked forward to learning how to make it.”
Source: The Book of Unholy Mischief
“For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.”
“For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.”
“For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a more open veldt country where competition was keener between swiftness and stealth, and where adroitness of thinking played a preponderating role in the preservation of the species.”
“For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.”
“For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”
Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition
“For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.”
“For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.”
“For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama , danda, bheda , he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes fro exchequer.”
“For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.”
“For the provision of God constantly to be at work in our lives we must activate the laws of God.”
“For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers.......Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been based on the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease.”
“For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.”
Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.”
“For the purpose of human health, it appears that it is wise to work and live below 4,900 feet.”
Source: Health Forensics
“For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“For the purpose of learning: do not ask your pain to be taken away...rather ask for an ability to endure.”
“For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.”
“For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.”
Source: The Letters of David Hume:
“For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.”
Source: Selections from the English poets
“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".”
“For the quick-to-give-ups, they never really achieve anything great in life but for the never-give-ups, the world is theirs for the taking.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date we dream of going home to watch television. We would prefer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit. We are almost constitutionally incapable of casual relationships.”
“For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.”