F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding...”
“For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.”
Source: Faces in the water
“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.”
Source: The Money Answer Book: Quick Answers to Everyday Financial Questions
“For your own safety, do not attempt to open a book until we have more information on the nature and cause of these problems.”
Source: Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.”
Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
“For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.”
“For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I’ve met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.”
“For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces
“For your purpose to prevail, pray. It is when you pray that you will know that the God of yesterday, today, and always cannot fail.”
Source: Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes
“For your reward lies not so much in the accomplishment as in the effort and struggle, and all the good qualities which they bring out.”
Source: Strength and How to Obtain It
“For your sake, jewel,
I am glad at soul I have no other child;
For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on them.”
Source: Othello
“For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you.”
“For your shadow, you are his shadow!”
“For your shame, punishment, and cruelty ain't the same”
“For your temporary comfort, don't permanently kill the innocent life of all living beings on the earth, the plastic”
“For youth is the beggar of knowledge, oblivious of men's and women's feelings, unaware of love. Yet it cries for love, like the bird in the sky that cries for its own space.”
Source: Love, Leda
“For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness.”
“For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces...
And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.”
Source: Doctor Glas
“For youth, everything is sport.”
“For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.”
“For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“For Zen Buddhism, historical narratives do matter; stories of the "transmission of the lamp" of the awakened mind down through the ages constitute the narrative thread that holds the history of Zen together, supporting the continuity and authority of its institutional tradition. But what matters most to many sincere Zen practitioners, especially today, is how the teachings and practices embedded in those stories can illuminate and change our lives-not when, where, and by whom they were first taught and written down.”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.”
“For Zin, it felt like the center of space and time, in that moment. As if the whole of the universe began and ended here, and there was nothing more central. It was a hallowed moment. Undeniably sacred. There was no individual ego, but rather a united circle. The Grand Entry moved in harmony with the spheres of the heavens. An energetic, circular hoop of energy and prayer in the form of tribal dancers.”
Source: Zin
“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.”
“For Zugunruhe is the word describing what's inside a bird that makes it want to spread its wings and cherish flight above all things.”
Source: Dreams of Zugunruhe
“For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.”
Source: Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy
“For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.”
Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays
“For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.”
Source: Islam at the Crossroads
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.”
“For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.”
Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.”
“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?”
“For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.”
Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)
“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.”
“For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the "feel" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word home! Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm-O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity?”
“For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.”
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila
“For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.”
“For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.”
“For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.”
Source: Enchiridion
“For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.”
Source: Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System
“For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants . . .”
Source: Moby-Dick
“For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.”
Source: Religion
“For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion”
Source: The Prince
“For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.”
Source: The Terror: Machen's Collection