F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'.”
“For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.”
“For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
“For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.”
“For wisdom is like her name; she is not readily perceived by many.”
“For wisdom is the property of the dead,
A something incompatible with life; and power,
Like everything that has the stain of blood,
A property of the living; but no stain
Can come upon the visage of the moon
When it has looked in glory from a cloud.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often.”
“For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.”
Source: The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq
“For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.”
Source: The Select Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author
“For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?”
Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.”
Source: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.”
Source: The Crimson Curtain
“For with each bite he tasted not just the irresistible sweetness of the dessert, but the deliciously agonizing negative flavor of all the imagined foodstuffs that he could have bought with that nickel instead—a turkey leg the size of his forearm, or a milkshake with a pair of deep red strawberries floating on its surface. The single relinquished nickel sat in the custard seller's till, its gold transmuted back to lead.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“For with god nothing shall be impossible.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“For with God nothing will be impossible.”
“For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.”
“For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.”
“For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.”
“For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.”
“For with the vessel, and with the dissipation into smoke of the treasure it contains, it is he, the subject, the anonymous bearer, the herald, who is equally shattered.”
Source: Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
“For within himself, be he clairvoyant and articulate, he will find latent the divisions of the mind of European man, and their opposing impulses.”
Source: Lucifer Before Sunrise
“For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly accepted social customs and life patterns that reflect the one-time strict adherence to the biblical scriptures. Attitudes towards double-standard premarital virginity, double-standard marital fidelity, the sexual autonomy of women, illegitimacy, abortion, contraception, rape, childbirth, the importance of marriage and children to women, the responsibilities and role of women in marriage, women as sex objects, the sexual identification of passivity and aggressiveness, the roles of women and men in work or social situations, women who express their ideas, female leadership, the intellectual activities of women, the economic activities and needs of women and the automatic assumption of the male as breadwinner and protector have all become so deeply ingrained that feelings and values concerning these subjects are often regarded, by both women and men, as natural tendencies or even human instinct.”
Source: When God Was A Woman
“For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.”
Source: The Light on the Path: Light on the Path: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection
“For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.”
“For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?”
Source: The Wrath and the Dawn
“For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.”
Source: Profiles in Courage
“For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.”
“For, without love, pleasure withers quickly, becomes a foul taste on the palate, and pleasure’s inventions are soon exhausted. There must be a soul within the body you are holding, a soul which you are striving to meet, a soul which is striving to meet yours.”
Source: Just Above My Head
“For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.”
Source: Love or perish
“For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.”
“For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.”
“For [Wolfgang] Pauli the central problem of electrodynamics was the field concept and the existence of an elementary charge which is expressible by the fine-structure constant ... 1/137. This fundamental pure number had greatly fascinated Pauli, .... For Pauli the explanation of the number 137 was the test of a successful field theory, a test which no theory has passed up to now.”
Source: Pauli Lectures on Physics: Volume 1, Electrodynamics
“For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“For woman was an "intractable animal" and she displayed her brute unreason nowhere more clearly than in her refusable to acquiesce in her own subjection.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed, It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved. What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness. If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter.”
“For women, a wedding is the pinnacle of girlish dreams, the culmination of playing tea party with her dolls. A wedding is when we're all queens, when we are all respected. They're pure nonsense, simple idiocies. They're capitalist dreams so we'll buy a hypocritically white dress that's miles from our immaculate virginity.”
Source: The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo
“For women and men, but especially women, with on camera acting you have to look a certain way. You have to present yourself as the most attractive version of yourself that you can be, and then you're judged based on how attractive you are or if you are the right look for the character.”
“For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal human beings and thus break out of their subordinate status, is undermined by the ability of men to escape from the responsibility of acknowledging women's equality. Men's use of women in prostitution stands directly in the way of women's efforts to improve their status.”
Source: The Idea of Prostitution
“For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.”
Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
“For women especially, its important to be financially independent.”
“For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it.”
Source: Lilith
“For women, gender identity theory makes sex that which we cannot flee from and that which we are not permitted to keep.”
Source: On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman
“For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.”
“For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity.”
“For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.”