F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me.”
“For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.”
“For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.”
“For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.”
“For those who set out to clean the dirt of the world, the best broom is their own clean morals, because you can't clean the dirt with dirt!”
“For those who simply voted because Donald Trump was the Republican and you should vote for the Republican: it's baffling to me, how you can call yourself a Christian and support a man who embodies everything that Christ fought against.”
“For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.”
“For those who struggle to believe in a power GREATER than themselves, they can begin by believing in a power OTHER than themselves.”
“For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.”
Source: Chomsky on Democracy and Education
“For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.”
“For those who suffer from depression, it can feel like a shadow, never leaving your side. A torturer that lives within your own body that you can’t escape from. Know that you are not alone, that you are strong and there is help out there. Keep fighting towards the light, no matter how dark it may get. Because, one day, the storm clouds will clear, and a new day will dawn. To those who may know someone that suffers from the pain of depression. Know that it’s not something easily dealt with. It takes time, days even years, for some, like Iris a life time. Many suffer in silence. Be there for that person. Be the light in their darkness, help them see the sun, the moon and the stars. Because they are worth the fight. Let us all speak and hear, to heal.”
Source: Iris Before The Storm
“For those who think small, the world is big; for those who think big, the world is small! The vast sums of money and effort spent on space exploration are the product of big thinking!”
“for those who thought I was the best candidate but chose to work for someone else because they viewed my campaign as hopeless, they will need to reexamine their thinking for truly, no woman will ever achieve the presidency as long as their potential supporters hold this view.
(From Voices of Multicultural America)”
“For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.”
“For those who trust, life is a blessing. For those who don't trust, life is suffering.”
“For those who understand, no explaination is needed...For those who don't, none will do.”
“For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.”
“For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.”
“For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!”
“For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“For those who want to pray for me to "find God," please don't waste your prayers. If you really think God is listening to you, then please use those precious moments to ask God to care for the sick and dying, and leave me out of it. I'm happy without my faith and with living my life in the here and now. Besides, thousands before you have prayed for me to find God and it hasn't worked yet. Why would God value your request over theirs?”
“For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.”
“For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.”
“For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.”
“For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.”
“For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.”
“For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.”
Source: Far Journeys
“For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.”
“For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“For those whose eyes see nothing else but difference in skin colour, kindly digest this ꓽ I have black skin, no doubt, but my teeth and eyeballs are white. This means that I am not totally black. I have seen so many white people with black hair. This means that they are not totally white. It’s all like an exchange of gifts.”
“For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.”
“For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.”
Source: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
“For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.”
“For those whose life together is not one shiny, sunny thing, and often a mixed blessing, Mercury is the natural ruler. We were not easy, you and I. You were trouble and I am difficult. You were faithless and I am fixed. You said you had struck gold when you met me--but you loved bonds that could be broken--gold dissolves in mercury just as salt dissolves in water--but, in reality, nothing is lost.
Death, though, is a different reality. You are dissolved. Into what? Into time, into space, into the leaky container that is me, who will also dissolve into time, into space. No. 80 on the Periodic Table, you are gone. But before I take up my role as the long-suffering one--the gold-band-wearing survivor who was always there and is still--I am aware that mercury makes possible the extraction of gold from poorer-quality ores. You brought out the best in me.”
Source: Night Side of the River
“For those whose senses are properly attuned, the most insignificant events—a woman who delays, a dog who sniffs at a wall—result in something so ineffable … it's as if a hidden universe of accumulated coincidences and circumstances had ordained it—so that even in the presence of so slight a spectacle as that of two flies alighting on a bald head, one would have the impermeability of a crocodile not to experience a veritable paroxysm of admiration.”
“For those with an open mind, it has become increasingly clear that MMT provides a sound basis for developing an understanding of the operation of a monetary economy, enabling economists and political analysts to better understand the nature of the opportunities that are available for policy.”
Source: Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers
“For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.”
“For those with faith no evidence as needed. For those without faith, no evidence will suffice.” -St. Thomas Aquinas”
“For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”
“For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.”
“For those with the wrong perspective, your success exposes their inadequacies and comfort
with mediocrity.”
Source: Change Is Coming: Faith To Face The Inevitable
“For those without faith there are no answers, for those with faith there are no questions.”
“For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.”
“For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.”
“For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!”
“For those wondering how to deal with anxiety and depression, the first thing to consider is what you're putting into your mouth.”
“For those wondering why we are here,
and where here is?”
Source: Curious
“For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.”
“For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.”
“For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.”
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V