F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.”
“For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.”
“For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.”
“For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.”
“For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.”
“For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.”
Source: A New Aristotle reader
“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.”
Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution
“For the real virus that spreads, are of the mindsets of the unwilling who refuse to cut the cords that play us.”
Source: GOD IN THE GARDEN: a collection of poetry written beyond the surface
“For the really scary stuff to work at the end you have to fall in love a little bit with the family and want then to be ok. And once you get the audience to buy in on that then they care. They want them to be okay.”
“For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.”
Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book
“For the record, I am the record.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“For the record, I do have genitals; and they are functional and aesthetically pleasing.”
“For the record, I don't believe in meditation. I don't believe in crystals or cleanses or cosmic dusts.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“For the record, I know at least a half a dozen leggy blondes who do not want to get in my pants.”
His charming smile disarmed her, and she collapsed on the pillow beside him, laughing. “All six of them?”
“Maybe, five.” —Prince Peter ben Korah and Davianna ben David”
Source: M1-The Black Key
“For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.”
Source: Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes
“For the record…” I took her hand and held it up. “These are the only hands I want on me.”
Source: Wolf Moon
“For the record, I want to be anywhere you are," he murmured in her ear, so close he might as well have run his tongue along it.”
Source: Lover's Instinct
“For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.”
Source: The Catastrophic History of You and Me
“For the record, sports cars have ridiculously small trunks.
I know that for a fact, since I found myself stuffed into one.”
Source: Famous Penultimate Words
“For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy — and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck — though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone — a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game.”
“For the record, while it's very charming that you keep trying to protect me, I would like to remind you that I actually know how to defend myself."
He grimaced. "I know. It's just... instinct."
"Well, stop it."
He held his hands up. "Won't happen again." He hesitated. I mean, unless I'm pretty sure you're about to die, then I'm absolutely going to rescue you, whether you like it or not.”
Source: Renegades
“For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.”
Source: The Perfect Match
“For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.”
Source: After-Hours Negotiation: Can't Get Enough\An Offer She Can't Refuse
“For the record, do I know anyone not a demon or a freak?” – Nick “Yes, you do. Not sure if Bubba and Mark go into the latter or not, though. I’m too tired to mentally categorize them. You figure it out, and I’ll go with your Dewey decimal.” – Caleb”
Source: Chronicles of Nick
“For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'”
“For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.”
Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More
“For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.”
“For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.”
“For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.”
“For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.”
“For the record, I hate skiing... and if you get killed doing it, GOOD.”
“For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.”
“For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.”
“For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance”
“For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.”
“For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.”
“For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.”
Source: The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle
“For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.”
Source: Dream Warrior
“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.”
“For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.”
Source: Notes on an endangered species and others
“For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”
“For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they are too conceited to think that their opinion is going to change our behavior. A person with confidence won't be deterred! Keep after it!”
“For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.”
“For the record, this isn’t a male/female thing. It’s a people thing. You talk about men being cold...you should see women from my standpoint. We’re talking the Arctic tundra would be warmer. Believe me, you don’t want to know my vantage point on your gender. As a man, if I grabbed your breasts, I’d be arrested. Any idea how many women have felt free to grab my crotch at will? (Acheron)”
Source: Devil May Cry
“For the record, we’re not friends. (Stryker) For the record, I don’t care. (Savitar)”
“For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.”
“For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.”
“For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.”
Source: Pretty in Plaid: A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending,Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase