F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Source: Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)
“For what blessing may a man hope for but
An immortality in
The loving vigilance of death.”
“For what but eye and ear silence the mind
With the minute particulars of mankind?”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.”
“For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
“For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not only it does not condemn diversity, but it eagerly and willingly grants to each nation the right to keep and preserve the legitimate customs and traditions of its forbears.”
“For what constitutes a Christian is not; accepting the Christian's creed, but accepting Christ as Savior and Lord. It is a question of personal loyalty and love.”
“For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.”
“For what could happen to her but that she should die, and she had already died so many times.”
Source: The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
“For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?”
“For what do mortals know, with their limited means? Except that earthly life, whether noble or base, is sad, and the oceans of the world are created from the salt tears of men.”
Source: Arthur Rex
“For what do we insist on fussing and fighting? Until when? How much have we lost versus gained in the process?”
“For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
“For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured.
“For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?”
“You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be
prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.”
Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“For what does it mean to look at something, a real object in the real world, an animal, for example, and say that it is something other than what it is? It is to say that each thing leads a double life, at once in the world and in our minds, and that to deny either one of these lives is to kill the thing in both its lives at once.”
Source: The Invention of Solitude
“For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.”
“For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.”
Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?”
“For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.”
“For what God gives I thank indeed; What He withholds I do not need”
“For what good is freedom of expression if you lack the means to express yourself?”
Source: The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
“For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions
“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?”
Source: Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide
“For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?”
“For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.”
Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“For what I am suggesting is that concern for the mysterious is at the heart of the humanities, whereas at the heart of the sciences there is a concern with the problematic. That this is a contrast, and not a dichotomy, is seen in the way in which problem-solving has a place in the humanities—though the most significant kind of problem is one that, in Marcel’s language, ‘conceals a mystery’—and in the complementary way in which some scientists, such as Einstein, have spoken of a deepening sense of awe and wonder awakened in them, an awe and wonder in the presence of the universe, that grows through the advance of the sciences, through the growing success in solving problems. But the contrast remains, and since problem-solving can be successful, whereas contemplation of mystery cannot, there cannot be in the humanities any hope for the sort of success the sciences have known. Nor in theology: and especially not in Christian theology whose central mystery is focused in the birth of a child in a stable, and the death of a man on a cross.”
Source: Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology
“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.”
“For what?"
"I don't know," she said, lowering her gaze. "To go with you."
"Go with me where?" he gasped.
"Anywhere." She turned her eyes up. "Anywhere you go." Tatiana said, "I will go with you."
Alexander tried to speak but couldn't; he found himself without words. "But, Tania...I'm going back to the front."
She was looking down at the ground. "Are you, Alexander?" she asked quietly without looking up.
"Of course. Where else would I be going?"
Her eyes stared at him with profound emotion. "You tell me."
Blinking and stepping away from her, as if being too close to her left him unprotected, Alexander said, still holding her backpack, "Tania, I'm going back to the front. Colonel Stepanov gave me extra time to come here. I gave him my word I would return."
"And that's one thing about you Americans," she said, "you always keep your word."
"Yes, that's one thing about us," Alexander said bitterly. "It's no use talking about it. You know I have to go back."
Shivering. Tatiana raised her seaweed eyes to him and in a small voice said, "Then I'll go back with you. I'll go back to Leningrad.”
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.”
“For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.”
“For what I have accomplished and what I have become, I have to to thank my industry much more, my indefatigable working, rather than any outstanding talent.”
“For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.”
Source: The Poems
“For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.”
“For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics where these do not exist, but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred for the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the Devil. God preserve us.”
“For what I will, I will, and there an end.”
Source: Plays ...
“For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.”
“For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night?
What if it were much harder to love what is irregular, interruptive, scattered, and uncontained?”
Source: The Long Form
“For what is a curse but an unfair theft of strength. (Whatever is attempted in the way of improving your position brings back less than the effort exerted.)”
Source: ANCIENT EVENINGS
“For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men.”
Source: The Vaster Wilds
“For what is a life that isn’t shared,
no matter its fortune or hardships?
Whatever worn bric-a-brac remains
is a trail to follow into a human heart.
[Heart’s Walk]”
“For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.”
“For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.”
“For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
Source: The Garden of Evening Mists
“For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.”