F Quotes
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“For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.”
Source: Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform: Collection of the Principal Speeches Made in Parliament Or Before the People, by the Honorable Wilfrid Laurier ... Member for Quebec-East in the Commons, Since His Entry Into Active Politics in 1871
“For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.”
Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
“For us, the best time is always yesterday.”
“For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality”
“For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!”
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
“For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.”
“For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.”
“For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.”
“For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could extract ourselves from our point of view and sort of look down at human life the way a biologist looks at other organisms, I think we could see it a different way.”
“For us, we just start with the character. We think of Stifler, and that usually just leads to something that's outrageous.”
“For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.”
“For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
Source: War and Peace: Designed to be Read as a Modern Novel
“For USA civilians, the Ukraine war is something that is happening on the opposite side of the world that is extensively consuming their tax dollars.”
“For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.”
“For valid reasons, it's been a long time since you've heard an ancient truism cherished by the fight game: "As the heavyweights go, so goes boxing." The current heavyweight division, a quaint collection of overweight senior citizens, is probably the industry's least appealing crop since bare-knuckle brawling gave way to gloved combat in the 1890s.”
“For validation of knowledge about something, seeing something is not necessary. We use inference to know about things we have not seen, but which nevertheless are considered as true by inference. We would infer that someone put book on table if it was lying in cupboard when we last saw it. If we see an infant crying in a stroller in park and is unattended, we would immediately search for the parent or attendant who would have accompanied the infant to this place. Inference can be used to derive valid knowledge about unseen concepts whose physical manifestations can however be observed like gravity, for instance. We know that dark energy and dark matter, detectable only because of their effect on the visible matter around them, make up most of the universe. We knew black holes exist even before we observed them through a visible image in 2019.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.”
“For various reasons—a lack of success in life, insufficient education, too much introspection, too little love from mother and father, that damned Ligotti book, and a hundred other things—I began to sink deeper and deeper into despondency and pessimism. Reality itself seemed to take on a darker hue, as everywhere I looked, I saw only futility, idiocy, and the utter pointlessness of modern life, especially mine.”
Source: Broken: Twenty Pieces
“For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.”
“For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.”
“for, verily, in the alternating of night and day, and in all that God has created in the heavens and on earth there are messages indeed for people who are conscious of Him!”
“For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.”
Source: A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
“FOR VERY MINUTE YOU SPEND WORRYING ABOUT THINGS IN LIFE,
YOU LOSE A PRECIOUS MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE.”
“For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...”
“For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.”
“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”
Source: The Children of Húrin
“For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it. In the clamor in which we live, love is impossible and justice does not suffice.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“For violence or fraud can create no right.”
“For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.”
“For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.”
“For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.”
“For virtue only finds eternal Fame.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
“For visions come not to polluted eyes.”
Source: Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-book: With Poetical Illustrations
“For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.”
“For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.”
“For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.”
“For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.”
“For want of a nail... the kingdom was lost.”
Source: Apocalipsis Z: Los días oscuros
“For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.”
“For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.”
Source: Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc
“For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.”
Source: Character. Repr
“For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.”
Source: Character
“For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.”
“For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.”
“For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.”
Source: Closing Time
“For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.”
“For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.”