F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.”
“For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.”
Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays
“For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”
“For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With medicine bitter and strong.”
Source: The Leysin Version of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan
“For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.”
“For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.”
“For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.”
“For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.”
Source: A discourse against transubstantiation
“For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.”
Source: My Essential Doctrines (Annotated Edition)
“For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.”
“For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.”
Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
“For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.”
“For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.”
“For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.”
“For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.”
“For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.”
“For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.”
“For the strange thing is that Scott-King was definitely blasé. Something of the kind has been hinted before, yet, seeing him cross the quadrangle to the chapel steps, middle-aged, shabby, unhonoured and unknown, his round and learned face puckered against the wind, you would have said: ‘There goes a man who has missed all the compensations of life—and knows it.’ But that is because you do not yet know Scott-King; no voluptuary surfeited by conquest, no colossus of the drama bruised and rent by doting adolescents, not Alexander, nor Talleyrand, was more blasé than Scott-King. He was an adult, an intellectual, a classical scholar, almost a poet; he was travel-worn in the large periphery of his own mind, jaded with accumulated experience of his imagination. He was older, it might have been written, than the rocks on which he sat; older, anyway, than his stall in chapel; he had died many times, had Scott-King, had dived deep, had trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants. And all this had been but the sound of lyres and flutes to him.”
Source: Scott-King's Modern Europe
“For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.”
“for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of family, and the difference citation of occupation are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force.”
Source: The Time Machine
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
Source: The Second Jungle Book
“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster
“For the success,
Although particular, shall give a scantling
Of good or bad unto the general;
And in such indexes, although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.”
“For the Sufi Traveler, every journey is the haji, every tajalli is the Kaaba. Every path, if it be properly understood, is the Path; every way, however fraught with difficulty, can be experienced as a "straight" path to realization.”
Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
“For the sun child and the new god will give birth to a new era and the great creators will fall one by one, reshaping our homes and hearths
“A bloody path has been chosen,” he went on, because of course. There apparently was no stopping this. “The Great War fought by the few is coming, and in the end, the sun will fall and the moon will reign until the new sun rises.”
My brows rose. Sort of sounded like a normal day to me.I officially had no words. At all. None.
Ewan the nymph dropped to one knee. “Goodbye Seth, the God of Life . . .”
A shiver blasted down my spine as a bolt of lightning struck off the coast, slamming into the ocean.
The nymph bowed its head. “The God of Death.”
Source: The Struggle
“For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown”
Source: Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
“For the sun, stars, oceans, and all the trees, I’ll consider it.”
Source: I'll Give You the Sun
“For the sun to shine, you gotta have some rain. You need the damn rain.”
“For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.”
Source: Carlyle Reader
“For the Supernatural, entering a human soul, opens to it new possibilities both of good and evil. From that point the road branches: one way to sanctity, love humility, the other to spiritual pride, self-righteousness, persecuting zeal. And no way back to the mere humdrum virtues and vices of the unawakened soul.”
Source: Reflections on the Psalms
“For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless.”
“For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.”
“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
Source: Night
“For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented, a democracy for the 21st century. For this wisdom, above all, I thank Mr. Jefferson who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced.”
“For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.”
“For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.”
Source: The Threepenny Opera
“For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”
“For the team to be successful, we've got to set team goals. I go out every game and make sure that I'm contributing, whether that's defensively or offensively.”
“For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.”
“For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.”
“For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.”
Source: The collected works of George E.P. Box
“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”
Source: Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2
“For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.”
“For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.”
“For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.”
“For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.”
“For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy thoughts did not break him in two, but were only a pleasant pastime as he slowly fell under the spell of her aloof beauty and her hidden intensity.
…
But no, they’d met long ago, in the furthest years of his childhood. Their chances had come and gone. All they had ahead of them were a tedious road and a final good-bye.”
Source: Not Quite a Husband