F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.”
“For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.”
Source: Dubliners
“For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.”
Source: The Book of Tomorrow
“For the young Gaels of Ireland
Are the lads that drive me mad,
For half their words need footnotes
And half their rhymes are bad.”
“For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.”
“For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom.”
“For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it.”
“For the young, the practice of equitation is a valuable lesson, as it requires the exercise of all human virtue. If they are introduced to the practice of riding by understanding and patient teachers, then they too will develop these traits. The young rider grows to realize the horse is a partner rather than a slave who also deserves love and understanding.”
“For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.”
“For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.”
“For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail.”
“For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.”
Source: The Dunciad
“For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.”
Source: Lucretius, de rerum natura
“For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
If not the first, the fairest of the year;
For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun
The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.”
Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...
“For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.”
“For their children’s good deeds, parents take credit for themselves. For their children’s bad deeds, parents give blame to society.”
“For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.”
“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.”
“For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.”
“For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.”
Source: Red Queen
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“For their optimism, these few spent years being disparaged as futurists, as impractical dreamers, as kids playing in a sandbox—until suddenly, in the fall of 2015 and the spring of 2016, the industry recognized that the future the visionaries described wasn’t just possible. It was practical and desirable, and coming sooner than anyone might have ever thought.”
Source: Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World – An Insider's Account of Innovation and Disruption
“For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.”
Source: The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones
“For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, … they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.”
“For their surface area, insects weigh very little. A beetle, falling from a high altitude, quickly achieves terminal velocity: air resistance prevents it from falling very fast, and, after alighting on the ground, it will walk away, apparently none the worse for the experience… In contrast, human beings are characteristically maimed or killed by any fall of more than a few dozen feet: because of our size, we weigh too much for our surface area.”
Source: The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“For their was no finer family than the one you had chosen yourself.”
Source: Upon a Frosted Star
“For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by fallacious hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who considered Russia the best field for experimenting with a plan elaborated years ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one of the world to the other.”
“For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.”
“For them (birds), happiness starts with the absence of unhappiness - just as it does for us.”
“for them, forecasting the end of the world is quite routine, and, as believers in the afterlife, they expect to be able to bask in glory when their prophecies of doom are proven right.”
Source: AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
“For them I learned to be a mother again, cooking pancakes and thick herb-and-apple sausages. I made jam for them from figs and green tomatoes and sour cherries and quinces. I let them play with the little brown mischievous goats and feed them crusts and pieces of carrot. We fed the hens, stroked the soft noses of the ponies, collected sorrel for the rabbits. I showed them the river and how to reach the sunny sandbanks. I warned them- with such a catch in my heart- of the dangers, the snakes, roots, eddies, quicksand, made them promise never, never to swim there. I showed them the woods beyond, the best places to find mushrooms, the ways of telling the fake chanterelle from the true, the sour bilberries growing wild under the thicket.”
Source: Five Quarters of the Orange
“For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”
Source: Pompeii
“For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free”
“For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.”
“For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.”
“For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.”
Source: The Art of War
“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”
“For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres, we can talk of nothing. I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.”
“For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.”
“For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.”
“For then what wouldst thou know, flitting 'twixt waking and sleep!”
“For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.”
“For theologians groaning under the oppression of demands to justify their discipline before the bar of what is supposed to be universally valid scientific method the appeal of non-foundationalism is immense. It liberates a celebration of the rights of particularity. It enables the theologian to say that theological method must be different from other methods because it shapes its approach from the distinctive content with which it has to do - just as, indeed, other disciplines shape their approaches in the light of their distinctive content. Non-foundationalism, that is to say, is a way of advocating the autonomy of distinct intellectual disciplines.”
Source: The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity
“For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)
“For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.”
“For there are better sides to life
And I should know because I've seen them
But not very often”