F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.”
“Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!” he cried. “You’re too close.” Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. “I think he meant for the ghost to back up,” Jenks said dryly.”
“Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.”
“Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.”
“Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.”
Source: The Fifth Queen
“Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.”
“Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.”
Source: Shakespere's Werke
“Foreboding, and an all too familiar lack of control, roiled in my gut. My opponent might be hungry for a win, but I was famished. Something in my life would be a victory.
Sorry Shark, I wasn’t going down tonight. No chance. - Jason Ayers”
Source: Harvest Moon
“Foreboding” might have been the appropriate word. “Dread.” The PROMISE of fear. It was tangible fear... smellable... the stale odor soaking into the dirt and lingering in the windless jungle of dead branches and train tracks to nowhere; lovelier than angst, kinder than panic.”
Source: Fallout Dreams
“Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.”
“Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.”
Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility
“Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.”
“Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.”
“Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”
“Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast”
“Foreheads have more stars than the night sky.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.”
Source: The Bush Betrayal
“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”
“Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.”
“Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world”
“Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.”
“Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.”
“Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.”
“Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”
Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property
“Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.”
“Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.”
“Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.”
“Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back.”
Source: Americanah
“Foreign biochemists who adhere to metaphysical idealist concepts, ascribe to mythical immutable genes the role of governing metabolic processes which, properly speaking, constitute the characteristic feature of life. Soviet biology has counterposed to these idealist concepts, a real, scientifically consistent materialist explanation of vital processes based on concrete experimental data. Let me cite as an example only one tendency in these investigations, namely, the study of the primary role played in all these complex manifestations of life by special substances called enzymes. Along with vitamins and hormones they constitute the group of compounds which direct all the changes lying at the basis of metabolism in the living organism. Enzymes are the real keys to life. All component substances of the organism—phosphorous compounds, fats, carbon-hydrates, etc. — would be inactive if they were not influenced by enzymes. Without the digestive enzymes, starch would be converted into sugar not in ten minutes, as it is in our body, but in scores of months. Without respiratory enzymes, the organism would be doomed to death from asphyxiation even in an atmosphere of pure oxygen.”
Source: New paths of Soviet science: Notes on latest research of Soviet scientists
“Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.”
“Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.”
“Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.”
“Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.”
Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition
“Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.”
“Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.”
“Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing.”
Source: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
“Foreign food isn’t really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.”
Source: In The Shadow of Sadd
“Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price”
Source: A Wanted Man
“Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.”
“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for us free. But the local population should benefit rightfully. The locals should benefit just a little more than the companies.”
“Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.”
“Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.”
Source: The Aran Islands
“Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?”
“Foreign leaves feed many a marsupial, grub and duck. Koalas often munch on American cypress pine needles and camphor laurel leaves. (They also like to perch in camphor laurels in summer for the cool shade they throw.) Exotic foods, and I don’t just mean weeds, are thoroughly enmeshed in foodwebs. Most Australia’s birds of prey take exotic meats. A study around Mildura found that young rabbits were the staple food (60-92 percent by weight) of eagles, goshawks, harriers, kites and falcons – eight species in all. That was be calicivirus struck. Wedge-tailed eagles will eat feral cats. In Western Australia little eagles moved into the south-west when rabbits arrived, then retreated after myxomatosis struck. House mice feed hawks, snakes and owls in central Australia, making up to 97 percent of barn owl diets.”
Source: Radio Volume 2
“Foreign meddling elections is bad whether it's done by the Russians here or by us or anyplace else.”
“Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.”
“Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority”