F Quotes
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“For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth has occurred among the top quintile. And among that group, most of the income growth has occurred among the top 5 percent. The pattern repeats itself all the way up. Most of the growth among the top 5 percent has been among the top 1 percent, and most of the growth among that group has been among the top one-tenth of one percent.”
“For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'”
“For the time being
Words scatter
Are they fallen leaves?”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
“For the time being, all you need to do is become acquainted with St. Vincent. And if you decide you don't wish to marry him, for any reason, you won't have to."
They both stood. Impulsively, Pandora stepped forward and dove her face against Devon's chest and hugged him, undoubtedly surprising him as much as herself. She rarely sought out physical contact with anyone. "Thank you," she said in a muffled voice. "It means a great deal that my feelings matter to you."
"Of course they do, sweetheart." Devon gave her a comforting squeeze before drawing back to look down at her. "Do you know the motto on the Ravenel coat of arms?"
"Loyalté nous lie."
Do you know what that means?"
"'Never make us angry?'" Pandora guessed, and was rewarded by his deep laugh. "Actually, I do know," she said. "It means 'loyalty binds us.'"
"That's right," Devon said. "Whatever happens, we Ravenels will remain loyal to each other. We'll never sacrifice one for the sake of the rest.”
Source: Devil in Spring
“For the time being, all you need to do is become acquainted with St. Vincent. And if you decide you don't wish to marry him, for any reason, you won't have to."
They both stood. Impulsively, Pandora stepped forward and dove her face against Devon's chest and hugged him, undoubtedly surprising I'm as much as herself. She rarely sought out physical contact with anyone. "Thank you," she said in a muffled voice. "It means a great deal that my feelings matter to you."
"Of course they do, sweetheart." Devon gave her a comforting squeeze before drawing back to look down at her. "Do you know the motto on the Ravenel coat of arms?"
"Loyalté nous lie."
Do you know what that means?"
"'Never make us angry?'" Pandora guessed, and was rewarded by his deep laugh. "Actually, I do know," she said. "It means 'loyalty binds us.'"
"That's right," Devon said. "Whatever happens, we Ravenels will remain loyal to each other. We'll never sacrifice one for the sake of the rest.”
Source: Devil in Spring
“For the time being—”He emphasized each word. “I’ll be the only one climbing through your window.”
Source: Play With Me
“For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.”
Source: Nausea
“For the time being, standing on the tallest mountaintop,
For the time being, moving on the deepest ocean floor,
For the time being, a demon with three heads and eight arms,
For the time being, the golden sixteen-foot body of a buddha,
For the time being, a monk's staff or a master's fly- swatter,
For the time being, a pillar or a lantern, For the time being, any Dick or Jane,
For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“For the time being there is only one alternative: to be the hammer or the anvil.”
Source: Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs
“For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants.”
“For the time it lasted, it was really fun. It was as exciting as we can put it out to be, but after that, it was reality. We lost, and here I am.”
“For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.”
“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“For the time, the love, and the sacrifice,
For the laughs, the tears, and the sound advice,
For the faith, the prayers, and for being nice,
I thank God that He made you my mother.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.”
“For the to see you shine, you must stay far way, for you are like the sun; when you’re too close, your light make them blind. And when you’re too far, they seek you. So let them seek you. They’re getting your light regardless, but appreciating your presence is different from recognizing your existence. If they don’t appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.”
“For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.”
Source: Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture
“For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.”
“For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.”
“For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.”
Source: Tales from the Perilous Realm
“For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature”
Source: The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing
“For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.”
“For the true empowerment and realization of our life path, we have to be responsible for what we want and what we don’t.”
“For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.”
“For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.”
“For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.”
“For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.”
“For the truth, he lost his dreams. For his little sister, he lost his health. To defeat his illness, he lost his reason to live. And to recover his reason to live, he lost his sense of peace and tranquility.”
Source: Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben (Novel) Vol. 1
“For the truth is a terrible thing. You dabble your foot in it and it is nothing. But you walk a little farther and you feel it pull you like an undertow or a whirlpool. First there is the slow pull so steady and gradual you scarcely notice it, then the acceleration, then the dizzy whirl and plunge into darkness. For there is a blackness of truth, too. They say it is a terrible thing to fall into the Grace of God. I am prepared to believe that.”
Source: All the King's Men
“For the truth is a terrible thing.”
Source: All the King's Men
“For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.”
“For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.”
“For the truth is that the brain sullies the flow of pure
consciousness to provide us with a physical, but inherently distorted, view of reality. And the
reason is quite simple—the brain cannot deal with non-physical realities so it conveniently rejects these, while necessarily allowing the flow of consciousness to continue.”
Source: The Audible Life Stream: Ancient Secret of Dying While Living
“For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.”
Source: The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)
“For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.”
Source: An Orchestra of Minorities
“For the truth there is no deadline.”
“For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
Source: Complete Works of Thomas Boston, Volume 06 of 12
“For the turquoise is to all Tibetans a most precious jewel, They love it for its beauty and they believe it has magic power, It is the symbol of power and of wealth, the wealth of this world and the wealth of the soul; and it is the outward sign of sovereignty. Only officials may wear the long single turquoise eatting which is the badge of rank, though all, even the poorest, men as well as women, are never contented or secure until they can wear a fleck of the magic stone, in a nose, or ear, or finger ring. However small it may be, the precious gem will protect them from danger and evil, and will link them to God.”
Source: Daughter of the Mountains
“For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.”
Source: Broken Vessels: Essays
“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home."
Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss”
“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“For the umpteenth time today, my mind flashes to Palestine, to all the children, the elders, the ones brimming adulthood, perished and parentless. For the umpteenth time today, I feel salt at the back of my throat.”
“For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.”
“For the underemployed, be comforted by the fact that the kind of work you are forced by bleak circumstances to do does not reflect your personality; it rather reflects the society.”
“For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind”
Source: Paul Klee
“For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.”
“For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.”
“For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.”
“For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.”