F Quotes
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“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.”
Source: The lightning thief
“For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.”
Source: Collected Works
“For three days and three nights, Phædrus stares at the wall of the bedroom, his thoughts moving neither forward nor backward, staying only at the instant. His wife asks if he is sick, and he does not answer. His wife becomes angry, but Phædrus listens without responding. He is aware of what she says but is no longer able to feel any urgency about it. Not only are his thoughts slowing down, but his desires too. And they slow and slow, as if gaining an imponderable mass. So heavy, so tired, but no sleep comes. He feels like a giant, a million miles tall. He feels himself extending into the universe with no limit. He begins to discard things, encumbrances that he has carried with him all his life. He tells his wife to leave with the children, to consider themselves separated. Fear of loathsomeness and shame disappear when his urine flows not deliberately but naturally on the floor of the room. Fear of pain, the pain of the martyrs is overcome when cigarettes burn not deliberately but naturally down into his fingers until they are extinguished by blisters formed by their own heat. His wife sees his injured hands and the urine on the floor and calls for help. But before help comes, slowly, imperceptibly at first, the entire consciousness of Phædrus begins to come apart — to dissolve and fade away. Then gradually he no longer wonders what will happen next. He knows what will happen next, and tears flow for his family and for himself and for this world.”
“For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.”
“For three days the child lay in his parents' house, surrounded by spring flowers, narcissus, tulips, and Christmas roses, in a sealed coffin, small & white.”
Source: When the Time Comes
“For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.”
“For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.”
“For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.”
“For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”
“For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.”
“For three months after the United States declared war on Germany the Masses kept on assailing the jingoists, the profiteers, and the capitalists who caused the beating and deportation of strikers, the Post Office censorship, and other evils which had been loosed in the campaign to silence all critics of the war administration.”
Source: Art Young: His Life and Times
“For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.”
Source: The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
“For three years between 16 and 19 I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot--legends--and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.”
“For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.”
“For three years now, probably more, there is a clear common interest developed between Israel and the leading Sunni moderate entities. The Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan. And the common interest is to block radical Muslim terror, to counter the Iranian hegemonic and nuclear intentions, and to join hands in a huge infrastructure project from water, energy, transportation, whatever, in the whole Middle East.”
“For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.”
“For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.”
“For through it all--above, beyond it all--
I know the far-sent message of the years,
I feel the coming glory of the Light.”
Source: The Torrent: And, The Night Before
“For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.”
Source: DON JUAN
“For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.”
“For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.”
Source: How to Be a Woman
“For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.”
“For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." -”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"”
“For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.”
“For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
“For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth brings
That then, I scorn to change my state with kings.”
“For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.”
“For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.”
“For till the thunder and trumpet be,
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another”
Source: Laus Veneris
“For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!”
“For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“For time at last sets all things even
And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power.”
Source: The poetical works of Lord Byron
“For Time calls only once, and that determines all.”
Source: Electra
“For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.”
“For time is a river that flows,
No turning back or repose!
We think ‘tis a journey that’s ours to steer, But it’s our choices we forever bear...”
Source: Falling In & Out
“For time is inches
And the heart's changes,
Where ghost has haunted
Lost and wanted.”
“For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time.”
Source: Silent Spring
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
“For time may be a river,
But the mind is a tide.
They say the river can’t be turned, Yet the tide can shift and slide...”
Source: Falling In & Out
“For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented.”
“For time washed over my scars
like the waves cure the shore.
Your words drowning the ocean
by wanting every last drop from it.
And the ink turned my blood
into the highest sacrifice.
Wounds turning into words
and bleeding out your name.”
“For times when you feel pain:
See that is doesn't disgrace you, or degrade your intelligence - doesn't keep it from acting rationally or unselfishly.”
Source: Meditations
“For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich,
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.”
“For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere.”
“For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...
“For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“For to be a next event. It depends on this current event success.”