F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.”
“Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils”
Source: Publications of the Narragansett Club: First series
“Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Forceful little thing, aren’t you?”
“You have no idea. So we doing this or not?”
Those lush lips twitched. “Let me get this straight. We’re going to the bathroom, and I’m going to fuck you, and you don’t even care to know my name?”
“I’d actually prefer it if you’d keep your stupid mouth closed.” Oops. Her hatred was slipping out.
“Well, well. You might just be my soul mate.”
Source: The Darkest Passion
“Forcefulness is not love. Forget trying to force people into submission and instead try informing and educating as a means of gaining voluntary compliance. Never deny individual agency; it only creates resentment, defensiveness, and resistance. Education, on the other hand, creates wisdom that opens ears and hearts and minds. No one responds as favorably to demands as they do to informed requests.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.”
“Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.”
“Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.”
“Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Forces, visible and hidden, stretching back into one's past; migrations; religious conversions — our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history.
The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood.
In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.”
Source: True Hallucinations
“Forcible intercourse with one individual is called as "Rape" & Raping thousands of individuals at a time is called as "Politics".”
“Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.”
Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence
“Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication, then such confrontations need not occur.”
Source: How To Speak Dog
“Forcing an answer only guarantees that no answer will come out." - Six”
“Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.”
“Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.”
“Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.”
Source: #Girlboss
“Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.”
Source: The Language Instinct
“Forcing my eyes open, I refused to blink, knowing that in a flash the mysterious figure might disappear.”
Source: My Unusual Talent
“Forcing myself to make conversation felt like standing on a cliff, peering over the edge, about to tumble down headfirst.”
Source: The Briefcase
“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece was never bailed out. With their ‘rescue’ loan and their troika of bailiffs enthusiastically slashing incomes, the EU and IMF effectively condemned Greece to a modern version of the Dickensian debtors’ prison and then threw away the key.
Debtors’ prisons were ultimately abandoned because, despite their cruelty, they neither deterred the accumulation of new bad debts nor helped creditors get their money back. For capitalism to advance in the nineteenth century, the absurd notion that all debts are sacred had to be ditched and replaced with the notion of limited liability. After all, if all debts are guaranteed, why should lenders lend responsibly? And why should some debts carry a higher interest rate than other debts, reflecting the higher risk of going bad? Bankruptcy and debt write-downs became for capitalism what hell had always been for Christian dogma – unpleasant yet essential – but curiously bankruptcy-denial was revived in the twenty-first century to deal with the Greek state’s insolvency. Why? Did the EU and the IMF not realize what they were doing?
They knew exactly what they were doing. Despite their meticulous propaganda, in which they insisted that they were trying to save Greece, to grant the Greek people a second chance, to help reform Greece’s chronically crooked state and so on, the world’s most powerful institutions and governments were under no illusions. […]
Banks restructure the debt of stressed corporations every day, not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest. But the problem was that, now that we had accepted the EU–IMF bailout, we were no longer dealing with banks but with politicians who had lied to their parliaments to convince them to relieve the banks of Greece’s debt and take it on themselves. A debt restructuring would require them to go back to their parliaments and confess their earlier sin, something they would never do voluntarily, fearful of the repercussions. The only alternative was to continue the pretence by giving the Greek government another wad of money with which to pretend to meet its debt repayments to the EU and the IMF: a second bailout.”
Source: Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
“Forcing one to listen turns a conversation into a monologue of self-aggrandizement.”
“Forcing oneself toward peak performance on difficult days only incites further strain.”
“Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.”
“Forcing people to be silent and give up is the most powerful tool any oppressor has in their arsenal. 'What's the point, I won't get anywhere,' is the victory call that brings joy to the ears of every person or institution that ever sought to control you.”
Source: Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S.
“Forcing people to change is a losing strategy.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.”
“Forcing some one to love you is not love that's called madness, Love is that feeling where force doesn't work, only happiness of the loved ones matter.”
“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.”
“Forcing things merely because of attachments or external pressures can lead to a delicate balance between persistence and futility. The moment you find yourself forcing a situation solely because of attachments or the involvement of others, it may be time to reevaluate your path. Sometimes, we push situations beyond their natural rhythm, motivated by attachments or external expectations, inadvertently straying from our authentic path.”
“Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.”
“Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.”
“Forcing your decision won't make you a better partner. Unless it's a matter of immediate harm, then you gotta do what you gotta do.”
“Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.”
Source: First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently
“Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.”
“Forcing yourself into peace is indeed stressful so do not stress yourself to run behind peace, Go through each n every stress with peace.”
“Forcing yourself to move forward after every disappointment, will urge you to move forward no matter how bad your circumstances are.”
“Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.”
“Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.”
“Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.”
“Forcing youthful brains to become early birds will guarantee that they do not catch the worm, if the worm in question is knowledge or good grades.”
Source: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“Ford Bronco ilikuwa sehemu ya upelelezi wa polisi wa Tume ya Dunia, na ilipigwa mnada baada ya upelelezi na kesi kumalizika. Kiasi kikubwa cha pesa iliyopatikana kilikwenda kwa WPD – Idara ya Polisi ya Tume ya Dunia – ili iendelee kuimarisha huduma ya kukomesha biashara haramu ya madawa ya kulevya duniani.”
“Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.”
“Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Ford, do you know why the stars never lose their way in the sky?”
He looked at her, bewildered.
She answered softly:
“Because they always know where they belong.
Even when they seem lost, something within guides them home.
And you too — even if one day you feel adrift — you will find your way.”
Source: Symphony of Solitude: A Novel about Mr. Ford
“Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.”
“Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts
“Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.”