F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.”
“For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!”
“For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.”
Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.”
“For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is not the highest and greatest mode of consciousness which can be attained - there lie ahead the realms of the superconscious and the pitiful ego, by comparison, is as a speck of nothingness.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden
“For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.”
“For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity of successive loves, of different jealousies, each of which is ephemeral, although by their uninterrupted multiplicity they give us the impression of continuity, the illusion of unity.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.”
“For what we think upon, that we become.”
“For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”
“For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.”
Source: On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter
“For what woman has not, walking in the dark of the street or along a path deep in the countryside, sensed the brutal imaginings of a man watching her from his hidden place, and felt the same chills chasing over her skin, and quickened her steps to get away.”
Source: The Vaster Wilds
“For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies”
“For what you do to others, you do to yourself.”
“For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.”
Source: Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies: Two-Book Edition
“For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?”
Source: Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht
“For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.”
“For whatever be the knowledge which
we are able to obtain of God, either by
perception or reflection, we must of
necessity believe that He is by many
degrees far better than what we
perceive Him to be.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)
“For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.”
Source: The Great Instauration
“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.”
Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)
“For whatever it is worth, I never believed Wickham's stories of maltreatment at your hands. Other than being a rather boring, disagreeable fellow, I did not think you so dishonorable that you would go against your father's wishes.”
Source: Bluebells in the Mourning
“For whatever it's worth, all of this just proves that she doesn't deserve you. I think you know that, too.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.”
Source: Hello?
“For whatever it's worth, never fall a victim of the struggle. And when it so happens remain a soldier and a champion. ✊”
“For whatever life holds for you and your family in the coming days, weave the unfailing fabric of God's Word through your heart and mind. It will hold you strong, even if the rest of life unravels.”
Source: Weatherproof Your Heart
“For whatever needs were answered by the new patriarchies as they grew, throve and put on beef, they were bot the deeper needs of the female sex. Of course, there were attractions - there had to be, for women to swallow the ideological bait without perceiving either the hook or the poisonous lead weighing it down. None of these systems could have been imposed on women against their will. There had to be consent from the women members of each tribe, township or race proselytized by the zealots of the new gods, at some level. Which of them, though, presented with the first appealing package of function and freedom, could have known what she was consenting to for herself and all her female descendants for the next 2,000 years?”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“For whatever reason, commercial mountain guide, Anatoli Boukreev raced down ahead of his group—which in fact had been his pattern throughout the entire expedition, as, his employer, Scott Fischer’s final letters and phone calls from Base Camp to Seattle made clear.”
Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
“For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone. I had an older sister, I think she was supposed to babysit me but she immediately ran across the street to her friend's house.”
“For whatever reason, I made the Goblin Queen nervous. Kurag had proposed marriage once upon a time, but I think it was desire for sidhe magic in the goblin bloodline more than true desire for me. Oh, Kurag would fuck me if I'd let him, but that wasn't much of a
compliment. Kurag would probably have fucked anything if it held still long enough.”
Source: Seduced by Moonlight
“For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged.”
“For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.”
“For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“For whatever reason, none of the women in this house cooked. He’d had to learn in order to survive.”
Source: The Kiss Quotient
“For whatever reason, she looked at him and saw something in him no one else did--but he needed it.”
Source: Vendetta Road
“For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.”
“For whatever reason, the truth was apparent—
—he would no longer extend his hand towards Dia, the same way he did on that night during the ball when they first met.
The tears inside her heart felt as if they filled her chest to the brim.
All Dia could do now was to carefully and cunningly pull the thin strings so her beloved King of the Night wouldn’t go anywhere.
If they hadn’t met during that day where the night was the longest, she wouldn’t have fallen for him all over again like that.
She would have stayed as a vengeful ‘ghost’ that wanted revenge on those who killed her loved ones, without being stirred by wishes and hopes like that…”
Source: 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1 ～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～
“For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there's no steadfast rule stating that we must like everyone. But to keep from disliking ourselves, we should develop the good character to treat everyone kindly whether or not we deem them deserving.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“For whatever reason, there is always someone out of the crowd wanting to make you feel like crap.”
Source: A True Tale of Horror
“For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.”
“For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.”
“For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.”
“For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.”
“For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.”
“For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.”
“For whatever reason, I enjoy eating soggy cereal.”
“For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.”
“For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.”
“For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.”
“For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.”