F Quotes
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“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."
[Funeral Oration of Pericles]”
Source: History of the Peloponnesian War
“For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.”
“For the whole Past, as I keep repeating, is the possession of the Present; the Past had always something true, and is a precious possession. In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common Human Nature that has been developing itself.”
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”
Source: The Poems of Cowley
“For the will and not the gift makes the giver.”
“For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.”
“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.”
“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.”
Source: Twelve steps and twelve traditions
“For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.”
Source: The Art of War
“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.”
“For the wise man, every day is a festival.”
“For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.”
Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.”
Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion
“For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.”
“For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.”
“For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.”
“for the women [sex-workers], all poor and competing in an oversupplied market for sexual services, the ‘choice’ of unprotected sex is simply a financial trade-off between less money today (and the threat of physical violence from a dissatisfied client) and the far-off danger of developing AIDS. this has echoes, too, of the risk of a ‘bad reputation’ weighed by women [in the area] who too rarely insist on condom use to protect themselves.”
Source: AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.”
“For the words of a vow are sacred not only among men and the angels, but among the demons as well.”
Source: Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural
“For the worker bee, life is given over to the grim satisfaction of striking a firm line through a task accomplished. On to the next, and the next. Check, check. Done and done. It explains—and solves—nothing to call this workaholism.”
Source: The Art of the Wasted Day
“For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.”
“For the world has changed, and we must change with it”
“For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.”
“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.”
“For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.”
Source: Gone To Earth
“For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“For the world is only governed by self-interest.”
“For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.”
“For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.”
“For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.”
“For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.”
Source: Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold
“For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.”
Source: Archangel
“For the world, there are many very serious crises, such as the food crisis, already mentioned, or the environmental crisis, which threatens real catastrophe for everyone. But for the West in 2008–9, the phrase “the crisis” refers unambiguously to the financial crisis that has its deeper roots in inherent market inefficiencies, neoliberal doctrines about the alleged value of financial liberalization, dogmas about “efficient markets” and “rational expectations,” deregulation, exotic financial instruments that yielded profits beyond the dreams of avarice for a few—all brought to a head by an $8 trillion housing bubble that somehow regulators and economists did not perceive, portending ultimate disaster, as a few warned all along, notably economist Dean Baker.”
Source: Hopes and Prospects
“For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.”
“For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.”
“For the world to follow the light of Christ in us, we need to carry it around. And not a little sparkler. Instead, it is a brilliant torch that others will have no earthly reason to follow, yet they do it anyway”
Source: Abolish the Label
“For the world to supersede the United States and for the United States to become subservient to the world, which is the United Nations in practical application, just rubs people the wrong way. Because the United Nations is nothing but a fleece organization, fleecing our money, under the guise that we owe it because we've committed so many injustices and transgressions.”
“For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.”
“For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world.”
“For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
Source: Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland
“For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.”
“For the worst challenges, the best and higher flights"
Tania Tome (C)(P)”
“For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.”
Source: The Final Testament
“For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.”
“For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.”
Source: The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]
“For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.”
“For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.”
“For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.”