F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.”
Source: My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance
“For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.”
“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.”
“For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.”
“For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.”
“For we must not just be ready,
for the enemy without,
but also for the enemy within.
And so shall it be,
Sisters of my heart,
Brothers of my soul,
Family of my flesh,
For evermore.”
Source: The Heart of Betrayal
“For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.”
“For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.”
“For we no longer take up "sword against nation," nor do we "learn war any more," having become children of peace, for the sake of Jesus, who is our leader.”
“For we put the power in the people.”
“For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“For we seek that which we already possess. We are the magic which we have been seeking”
“For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.”
Source: Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London
“For we the people will always be arriving
a ceremony of thunder
waking up the earth
opening our eyes to human
monuments.
And it'll get better
it'll get better
if we the people work, organize, resist,
come together for peace, racial, social
and sexual justice
it'll get better
it'll get better.”
Source: Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”
“For we thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a mater of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we have moved with it.”
Source: City
“For we've all carried too much -
maybe that's why,
when we all lay down something,
it feels like everything is leaving, and yet -
too much remains.”
“For we've all carried too much -
maybe that's why,
when we lay down something,
it feels like everything is leaving, and yet -
too much remains.”
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
“For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.”
“For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, we
breathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember,
yielding us fainter fragrance.”
“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”
Source: The Home and the World
“For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
“For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.”
“For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”
“For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.”
“For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.”
“For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.”
“For weeks I had mistaken his stare for barefaced hostility. I was wide of the mark. It was simply a shy man's way of holding someone else's gaze.
We were, it finally dawned on me, the two shyest persons in the world.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“For weeks now a rage
has possessed my body, driving
now out upon men and women
now inward upon myself
Walking Amsterdam Avenue
I find myself in tears
without knowing which thought
forced water to my eyes
To speak to another human
becomes a risk”
Source: Diving Into the Wreck
“For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell
“For weeks, people never stepped out of the house; some starved to death; a few abandoned the village and never returned. Those 19 weeks changed the lives of the villagers forever. The devil wore an orange-colored skin crossed with black stripes. He was ten feet long with a satanic tail and monstrous head. His eyes were fiery, glowing like the sun’s core and a devouring abyss; his big belly fur brushed the soft snow as it walked firmly on the ice. Human eyes would fail if he were lurking in the taiga.”
“For weeks, really, I could conjure him into being. I'd imagine him walking in, soaked in sweat, having finished mowing the lawn, and he'd try to hug me but i'd squirm out from his arms because even then sweat freaked me out.
Or I'd be in my room, lying on my stomach, reading a book, and I'd look over at the closed door and imagine him opening it, and then he would be in the room with me, and I'd be looking up at him as he knelt down to kiss the top of my head.
And then it became harder to summon him, to smell his smell, to feel him lifting me up.
My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really—which meant I guess that he was still living, too.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.”
“For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“For wellness optimum,
Breathe maximum, eat optimum
Stretch maximum, contract minimum
Meditate...be mum
Healing harmonised... mankind #Mickeymized!”
“For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.”
“For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together.”
“For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.”
“For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?”
“For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble
“For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.”
Source: Highcastle: A Remembrance
“For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.”
“For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?”
Source: We Were the Mulvaneys
“For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.”
Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost
“For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.”
Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE