F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.”
“For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.”
Source: Utopia
“For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“For when was public virtue to be found
Where private was not?”
“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
“For when we have Eros dominated by reason instead of Eros expressing itself with reason, we create a culture that is simply against life, in which the human organism has to submit more and more to the needs of mechanical organization, to postpone enjoyment in the name of an even more futile utility.”
Source: psychotherapy east and west
“For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl,
Then sleep the sorrows of our soul.
Let us drink the juice divine,
The gift of Bacchus, god of wine.
When I take wine, my cares go to rest.”
“For when we say that what is different is different, we affirm that what is different is the same as itself. For what is different can be different only through the Absolute Same, through which all that is is both the same as itself and other than another.”
“For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?”
Source: Valences of the Dialectic
“For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.”
“For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.”
“For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.”
Source: The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.”
“for whenever men are right they are not young”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“For whenever men begin the superstitious practice of worshipping God with their own fictions, all the laws enacted for this purpose forthwith degenerate into those gross abuses.”
“For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.”
“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn
“For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?”
“For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?”
Source: Most Beautiful House in the World
“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.”
“For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.”
“For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
“For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.”
Source: Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel
“For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.”
“For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.”
Source: The inferno
“For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.”
“For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.”
“For where this Self-love rules, Divines will study more to tune the Scriptures to their opinion, than their opinions to Scripture, and by head and shoulders drag the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith, to the supporting of their doctrines not Fundamental.”
Source: Ad fraternam communionem inter evangelicas ecclesias restaurandam adhortatio in eo fundata, quòd non dissentiant in ullo fundamentali catholicae fidei ... Sarisburiensem. (1640)
“For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
“For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“For where's the State beneath the Firmament,
That doth excell the Bees for Government?”
Source: The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited
“For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”
“For wherever you need to go - and then some.
The world needs more healers”
Source: The Assassin and the Healer
“For whether a place is a heaven or a hell rests in yourself, and those who go with courage may find themselves in paradise.”
“For which is harder, helping someone in need or trampling over the weak? It takes a good leader to care about the least of us. For a leader is only as good as their lowliest subjects.
- Royal Matchmaking Competition: Princess Qloey”
Source: The Royal Matchmaking Competition: Princess Qloey
“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.”
Source: A Discourse [on Rom. xiii. 1-8] concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers: with some reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I., and on the anniversary of his death, etc
“For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.”
“For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.”
“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”
Source: Orlando
“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the opposite direction: fearing and condemning any advances toward the idea as necessarily selling out the goal itself. The tragedy is that these sectarians, in condemning all advances that fall short of the goal, serve to render vain and futile the cherished goal itself.”
Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“For while life was painful, life was also sweet.”
Source: Oathbringer
“For while Pushkin had enjoyed watching the young man’s words drift by, Irina’s consciousness had closed upon them like the jaws of a trap. With an audible snap, she had taken hold and had no intention of letting go. In fact, so tight was her grip on the young man’s arguments that, should he ever want them back, he would have to gnaw through his own phrases the way a wolf in a trap gnaws through its ankle.”
Source: The Line
“For while the individual currents were volatile the totality of them were omniscient and the intrinsic flow knew only the way of destiny.”
Source: The Subtle Cause
“For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.”
Source: The Lyric: An Essay