F Quotes
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“For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.”
Source: The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume II - Between the Acts, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando
“For they told you life is hard
Misery from the start,
It's dull, it's slow, it's painful
But I tell you life is sweet
In spite of the misery
There's so much more, be grateful
So, who will you believe
Who will you listen to
Who will it be
'Cause it's high time that you decide
It's time to make up your own
Your own state of mind
Oh they told you life is long
Be thankful when it's done
Don't ask for more, be grateful
But I tell you life is short
Be thankful because
Before you know it
It will be over
'Cause life is sweet, life is also very short”
“For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.”
“For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.”
Source: A Treatise on Good Works
“For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)
“For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.”
Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays
“For things that worth little or nothing we care a lot; and we oversight what is necessary; because every man goes towards the exterior; and if he doesn't regain consciousness quickly, with pleasure remain involved in it.”
“For things to be right on the outside, they first have to be right on the inside.”
Source: Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
“For things to change for you, you've got to change!”
“For things to change in our national life we must address the problems from the very root of it.”
“For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.”
“For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.”
“For things to change, you have to change.”
“For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.”
“For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.”
“For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.”
“For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.”
Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
Source: Being Peace
“For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.”
“For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.”
“For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.”
“For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.”
“For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.”
“For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in secret prisons, all with the help of the United States. That's serious piracy.”
“For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.”
Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
“For this, and all else which may come, I believe we are prepared!”
Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars
“For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“For this cake, I want to mingle the womanly and masculine foods- sugars and meats in particular. The walls must come down. Must temper, must balance. Add the leeks to the chocolate, vanilla to the turnip. Tear away the sacred walls between the sweet and savory worlds.”
Source: Birds of Paradise
“For this call was not the wearisome "general" before which the tents go down; it was the exhilarating "assembly," which goes to the heart as wine and stirs the blood like the kisses of a beautiful woman. Who that has heard it calling to him above the grumble of great guns can forget the wild intoxication of its music?”
Source: What I Saw at Shiloh
“For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers, avoiders of dangers, greedy for gain; and while you benefit them, they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their goods, their life, their children,...when need is far away, but when you actually become needy, they turn away. (translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn)”
Source: The Prince
“For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.”
“For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
Source: Plato
“For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.”
“For this fool of a young man thought that she and Helen and Tibby had been playing the confidence trick on him, and that if he gave his address they would break into his rooms some midnight or other and steal his walking-stick too. Most ladies would have laughed, but Margaret really minded, for it gave her a glimpse into squalor. To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”
“For this, for you, my heart will burn
It whispers to me, what I speak now in turn:
If the sun should hide, let it hide;
If darkness drain the light, on moonbeams we ride.
It matters not,
For I am by your side.
If the sky should fall, let it fall;
If Death open his wings, ignore his dark call;
Let the stars fade, let worlds collide;
Let the seas boil, let chaos hold back the tide.
It matters not,
For you are by my side.”
Source: Dragon's Flight
“For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.”
“For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night”
“For this generation, though exhausting and suffocating, you can't give the world a piece of your mind if you want to survive in society. Thus, in this generation, though you can rebel, it's hard to resist. BTS took the picture of this generation of young people and brought it into the world of idol groups: here, they defined their own generation through the means of hip-hop.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.”
“For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.”
Source: The Precious Things of God
“For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“For this I came - to open your hearts to the Light.”
“For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles
“For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.”
“For this is England, a happy country, a land of miracles, where stones underfoot are nuggets of gold and the brooks flow with claret. The Boleyns' white falcon hangs like a sorry sparrow on a fence, while the Seymour phoenix is rising. Gentlefolk of an ancient breed, foresters, masters of Wolf Hall, the king's new family now rank with the Howards, the Talbots, the Percys and the Courtenays. The Cromwells - father, son and nephew - are of an ancient breed too. Were we not all conceived in Eden? When Adam delved and Eve span/Who was then the gentleman? When the Cromwells stroll out this week, the gentlemen of England get out of their way.”
Source: The Mirror & the Light
“For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.”
“For this is life, to gather for the lost fire beneath the sheets of snow as the hearts are riotous for love. So, you and I bundle to ignite the light as snowflakes kiss the earth.”