F Quotes
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“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.”
Source: Lives of the Noble Romans
“For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.”
“for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.”
Source: The odyssey
“For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.”
Source: Hamlet
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
Source: The Faerie Queene, Book Five
“For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.”
Source: Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
“For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.”
Source: Sleepless
“For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“For there is only one person in this entire world whom you can honestly,entirely, and completely fall for”
“For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.”
“For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying
“For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!”
“For there is the fear—a wise fear, I think: that if we speak just once to the dead, the dead will cleave to us in their desperate loneliness and never leave our sides.”
Source: The Accursed
“For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.”
“For there's sweeter rest
On a truelove's breast
Than any other where.”
Source: A Sterkarm Kiss
“For there to be a winner, there must also be a loser. For one to prosper, one must sacrifice.”
“For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else”
“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. Where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.”
Source: The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.
“For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.”
Source: Collected Stories
“For there was never yet philosoper
That could endure the toothache patiently,
However they have writ the style of gods,
And made a push at chance and sufferance.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.”
Source: The Sandman: Book of Dreams
“For there we sit surrounded by objects which enforce the memories of our own experience... But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughness a central pearl of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!”
“For, there were many, many things he had neglected. Little matters while he was at home and surrounded by them, but things of mighty moment when he was at an immeasurable distance. There were many many blessings that he had inadequately felt, there were many trivial injuries that he had not forgiven, there was love that he had but poorly returned, there was friendship that he had too lightly prized: there were a million kind words that he might have spoken, a million kind looks that he might have given, uncountable slight easy deeds in which he might have been most truly great and good. O for a day (he would exclaim), for but one day to make amends!”
Source: Reprinted Pieces
“For there would be no point in painful struggle, in heroic battle against injustice, in the painstaking achievements of culture and learning, in courageous stance against cruelty or adversity, in loving self-sacrifice for others, if in fact the experience gained by just one tortured and despairing individual could simply be 'adjusted' or 'modified' by the appropriate expert.”
Source: Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
“For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.”
Source: Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate a Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old Fashioned Title-page, Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes; a Vocal and Musical Medley
“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.”
“For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.”
Source: Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel
“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.”
“For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.”
“For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.”
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.
{Letter of support to Charles Darwin on his theory of evolution}”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley, by His Son, Leonard Huxley
“For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
“For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.”
“For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.”
“For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
“For they can conquer who believe they can.”
“For they desire to become eternal, they couldn't make it. For they themselves should realise, they are the one whom they are seeking for.”
Source: Poetry book Alone in a Boat
“For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)
“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
“For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals may be able to provide for themselves and their families but also that the goods which the Creator destined for the entire family of mankind may through this institution truly serve this purpose.”
Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)
“For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.”
Source: Anthem
“For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.”
Source: The odyssey