F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.”
“For what is done cannot be undone, but its energy can be transformed into something new.”
Source: The Little Light
“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”
Source: Medicine as a Profession for Women
“For what is eternal......Speak to me of it....
That which emerges ....through the thick drizzle of grief.....for you find your way...and sense what you seek.....for the charm remains formless....in the silence that is soundless.....as it resounds ...amidst the mountains........and emerges through the vales.....for what is truly beautiful never really dies....rather stays as a pure spring of delight......”
“For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.”
Source: What Faith Has Taught Me: Spiritual Insights
“For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming, there is a loving God?”
Source: What Faith Has Taught Me: Spiritual Insights
“For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming, there is a loving God?” From The Kindle Ebook What Faith Has Taught Me”
Source: What Faith Has Taught Me: Spiritual Insights
“For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?”
“For what is force? - that which moves matter. And what is matter? that which is moved by force.. Like all other basic principles, this is also self contradictory.”
“For what is glory but the blaze of fame?”
Source: The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti
“For what is grief but love in disguise?”
“For what is hard work without opportunity, and what is opportunity without hard work? When one knows when to venture out and when to limit, when to believe and when to doubt, and when to keep trying and when to move on, he has unlocked the secret of success.”
Source: Success Astrology: Your Celestial Map of Success
“For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.”
“For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?”
Source: Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas.”
“For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.”
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?”
Source: The Prophet
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
Source: The Prophet
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“For what is it you and I are trying to do now? What I'm trying to do is to attempt to explain to you as quickly as possible the most important thing about me, that is to say, what sort of man I am, what I believe in what I hope for - that's it isn't it? And that's why I declare that I accept God plainly and simply. But there's this that has to be said: if God really exists and if he really has created the world, then, as we all know, he created it in accordance with the Euclidean geometry, and he created the human mind with the conception of only the three dimensions of space. And yet there have been and there still are mathematicians and philosophers, some of them indeed men of extraordinary genius, who doubt whether the whole universe, or, to put it more wildly, all existence was created only according to Euclidean geometry and they even dare to dream that two parallel lines which, according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity. I, my dear chap, have come to the conclusion that if I can't understand even that, then how can I be expected to understand about God? I humbly admit that I have no abilities for settling such questions. And I advise you too, Aloysha, my friend, never to think about it, and least of all about whether there is a God or not. All these problems which are entirely unsuitable to a mind created with the idea of only three dimensions. And so I accept God, and I accept him not only without reluctance, but what's more, I accept his divine wisdom and his purpose- which are completely beyond our comprehension.”
“For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?”
“For what is life but pilgrimage? And what is life but conflict?”
Source: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
“For what is love if not it is truly tender...Love is sheltering, love is sustaining. Love is not proud... for it knows not how to resist but to joyfully surrender.....”
“For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means?”
“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?”
Source: Evergloom
“For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?”
Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
“For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.”
Source: The general's ring
“For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.”
“For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation
“For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.”
Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
“For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“For what is reading but the animating of a writer's words on the silent film strip in our minds?”
Source: The Black Book
“for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?”
Source: The testament of Gideon Mack
“For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
Source: Shade
“For what is she, but a spare daughter?”
Source: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
“For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need.”
Source: Revolutionary Road to Socialism
“For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
“For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?”
Source: Bimbi: Stories for Children
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer? Art goes yet further, imitating that Rationall and most excellent worke of Nature, Man. For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body; The Magistrates, and other Officers of Judicature and Execution, artificiall Joynts; Reward and Punishment (by which fastned to the seat of the Soveraignty, every joynt and member is moved to performe his duty) are the Nerves, that do the same in the Body Naturall; The Wealth and Riches of all the particular members, are the Strength; Salus Populi (the Peoples Safety) its Businesse; Counsellors, by whom all things needfull for it to know, are suggested unto it, are the Memory; Equity and Lawes, an artificiall Reason and Will; Concord, Health; Sedition, Sicknesse; and Civill War, Death.”
Source: Leviathan
“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?”
Source: Daedalus Is Dead
“For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.”
Source: Gesammelte Schriften
“For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?”
“For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.”
Source: The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)
“For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?”
“For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?”
Source: The treatises of M.T. Cicero on the nature of the gods [tr. by T.Francklin]; on divination; on fate; on the republic; on the laws; and on standing for the consulship, tr. chiefly by the ed. C.D.Yonge [and F.Barham].
“For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.”
Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine