F Quotes
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“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“For there are moments in all our lives, great and small, that we must trudge alone our forlorn roads into infinite wilderness, to endure our midnight hours of pain and sorrow--- the Gethsemane moments, when we are on our knees or backs, crying out to a universe that seems to have abandoned us. These are the greatest of moments, where we show our souls. Thee are our "finest hours." That these moments are given to us is neither accidental not cruel. Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we were born to reach great heights.”
Source: Miles to Go
“For there are more duals to fight behind the closed doors of the bedroom...”
Source: الحب الضائع
“For there are no limits to the stars; their numbers are infinite. Which is precisely why I measure my love for you by them. An amount too boundless to count.”
Source: Hunting Prince Dracula
“For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.”
“For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.”
“For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.”
Source: The Fairyland Series
“For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.”
Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.”
“For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.”
Source: The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.
“For there can be a need for hateful things, and a hatred of what is, in a strange way, loved. And so a child flies to what it recognizes for recognition's sake. But to be alone in a land where nothing can be recognized, that is what he feared, and that is what he longed for. For what is exploration without peril?”
Source: Boy in Darkness
“For there can be no salvation where there is not some sacrifice, and no national liberty in the fullest sense unless we have ourselves worked to bring it about.”
Source: Strange Defeat
“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of 'old people' and sense that one day we will be just like them. And that is the moment when early childhood comes to an end.”
Source: The Wine of Solitude
“For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.”
“For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.”
“For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.”
“For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.”
“For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.”
“For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.”
Source: Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One
“For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.”
Source: Distress: A Novel
“For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.”
Source: Selected essays
“For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.”
Source: On the Nature of Things
“For there is a wind or a ghost of wind in all books echoing the life there, a high wind that fills the tubes of the ear until we think we hear a wind, actual.”
“For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.”
“For there is always light,
If only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.”
“For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.”
Source: Tusculan Disputations
“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
Source: The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship
“For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.”
“For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.”
“For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“For there is never any way to go but in.”
“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
Source: The Way of Zen
“For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.”
Source: Essays [tr. by Cotton
“For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.”
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”
Source: Middlemarch
“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
Source: Oresteia
“for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men”
Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
“For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.”
Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...
“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.”
“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”
“For there is no higher religion than the Truth.”
“For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.”
“For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.”
“For there is no respect of persons with God.”
“For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.”
Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
“For there is no such thing:
Right person at the right time!
Instead with the right team,
Embrace Time that simply flies.
Never when meeting old friends
Does time really pass by?
In trust and truth they make amends
So Time they can really defy.
Hence, no one denies then:
In all it revitalizes.
Principled friendship never dies!”
Source: ACross Tic