F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”
“Fortunate is the man who is broken in pieces and offered to others, who is poured out and given to others to drink. When his time of trial comes, he will not be afraid. He will have nothing to fear. He will already have understood that, in the celebration of love, by grace man is broken and not divided, eaten and never consumed. By grace he has become Christ, and so his life gives food and drink to his brother. That is to say, he nourishes the other's very existence and makes it grow.”
Source: Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church
“Fortunate is the man whose wife understands the value of her own sensuality.”
“Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.”
Source: Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02
“Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”
“Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.”
“Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.”
“Fortunately, a little bit of jasmine goes a long way and, as long as you choose a reputable brand of blended oil, you can still reap the benefits.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“Fortunately, a steady diet of dumpster-diving and methamphetamine has left her with nothing but rage to power her movements.”
Source: Acceptable Lies: The Criminal Within
“Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.”
Source: The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History
“Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that.
"Hey there, bitches!" I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today?”
Source: Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
“Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.”
“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”
Source: Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
“Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.”
“Fortunately, even boundless despair eventually reaches the limits of our body and soul, and slowly blunts itself against them.”
Source: The Widow Killer
“Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.”
“Fortunately for Alan’s sake, Frank preferred beauty over age so I had no need to defend my territory.”
Source: Les Recidivists
“Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.”
“Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work. They are more content and playful in the presence of other adults, meaning that they feel secure with people other than Mother.”
“Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.”
“Fortunately for her human society already had an entire underclass of people who were functionally invisible.”
“Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.”
“Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.”
Source: The Complete Novels of John Buchan: 25+ Spy Classics, Thrillers & Adventure Novels in One Premium Edition (Unabridged): Including Richard Hannay Series, Dickson McCunn Trilogy & Sir Edward Leithen Series along with Midwinter, Witchwood, The Blanket of the Dark, The Free Fishers and more
“Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.”
“Fortunately for me I'm a vocalist, I can sing forever. I'm not going to be pretty forever, but I'm going to sing forever!”
“Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college.”
“Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.”
“Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.”
“Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.”
“Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.”
“Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.”
“Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.”
“Fortunately for readers and writers alike, human nature guarantees that willing subjects will never be in short supply. Like the young Aztec men and women selected for sacrifice, who lived in delightful ease and luxury until the appointed day when their hearts were to be carved from their chests, journalistic subjects know all too well what awaits them when the days of wine and roses-- the days of the interviews-- are over. And still they say yes when a journalist calls, and still they are astonished when they see the flash of the knife.”
Source: The Journalist And The Murderer
“Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.”
“Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.”
Source: Sanitation in Panama
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.”
“Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."”
Source: The Rod, the Root and the Flower
“Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.”
“Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people”
“Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by the thousands of considerations that always bedevil man in his progress. The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young.”
“Fortunately for us, the roots of the mother tree were too deep for these redactors. Asherah can still be found throughout the texts if one looks closely. It is in the very fact that most of the biblical narrative is about unsuccessfully trying to eradicate her. The most glaring examples are how many of the kings and their wives were condemned by the Yahweh prophets for still paying homage to her. And the only kings who are judged good in the narrative are those who keep having to destroy any signs of her presence over and over again.
-Excerpt from “Roots Too Deep for the Redactors,” featured in Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.”
“Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.”
“Fortunately graduate school had prepared her for this, the constant managing of despair.”
Source: Katabasis
“Fortunately, history does not pose problems without eventually producing solutions. The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of genius that enables them to perceive and capture the appropriate weapons to carve out their destiny.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.”
Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it.
(on breaking his leg)”
“Fortunately, I am not of a fainting disposition”
Source: Dracula