F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.”
“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.”
Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
Source: The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
“For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.”
“For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.”
“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.”
“For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.”
“For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.”
“For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I’d slapped her. Water pooled at the bottom edges of her eyes, her cheeks flushed red and she blinked rapidly. She’d succeeded in making me feel like a d*ck … again.”
Source: Pushing the Limits
“For the second time today, my stone heart melts. I love my friends. The old ones and the new ones. The real ones, who don't make websites condemning me to an eternity in hell just because I'm not attracted to them.”
Source: The Exact Opposite of Okay
“For the secret of life is suffering. It is what is hidden behind everything.”
Source: De Profundis
“For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.”
Source: Grand Inquisitor
“For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.”
“For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.”
“For the senior officers in Iraq, at least in 2005-2006, the responsibility was to the men at the top, the media, the message, the public back home - anything and everything, it seemed, but the soldiers under their command. And that's the ultimate betrayal of Iraq, the one that disillusioned me in Baghdad and Nineveh and keeps me outraged today.”
Source: Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
“For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.”
“For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
“For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.”
Source: The Mind's Eye: Imagery in Everyday Life
“For the serious artist does not satisfy needs”
“For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.”
Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962
“For the shadows to stop growing. For people to stop being angry.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.”
“For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step.”
“For the sick babies with a life-limiting diagnosis, sometimes I couldn't help but wonder if abortion was really the best treatment we had to offer. How could ending a life be considered "treatment" when we were taught to do no harm? And would ending the life of her child, no matter how sick, be something a mother could ever get over emotionally?”
Source: Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine
“For the sick it is important to have the best.”
“For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.”
“For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.”
“For the silence that lingers in my soul,
And the grace of God, that held me through it all.”
Source: Your Life Is A Miracle
“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.”
“For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.”
Source: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems
“For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.”
Source: Master of the Vineyard
“For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.”
Source: A Coffin for Dimitrios
“For the slightest reason, we always succeed when we aren't even trying, and when we try our hardest, it all goes wrong.”
“For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.”
Source: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
“For the snark was a boojum, you see.”
“For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.”
“For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.”
“For the society to sustain itself and progress at the same time, there must be a healthy interaction between order and chaos. Remember, every feat of originality is born of chaos, but to make that feat effective in society, a little order is required.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”
“For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.”
Source: The Training of the Twelve: Or, Passages Out of the Gospels, Exhibiting the Twelve Disciples of Jesus Under Discipline for the Apostleship,
“For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life.”
“For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.”
Source: The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 2: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith / Now, That's a Good Question!
“For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.”
“For the soul-wounded woman. Your healed voice is my favorite sound. Your hurts, they walk right into our hearts; but your story of healing --- that can change lives. Never be afraid to find and use your voice.”
Source: When a Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life's Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference
“For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.”
“For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.”
Source: AFRICAN GENISIS
“For the soup”
“For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.”
Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American