F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Forty minutes later, I leaned back in my chair, and looked at the thousand or so pages of manuscript towering on my desk. It hit me. Holy cow. This author had total control over this book. Total. And it was one of seven. One. Of. Seven.”
Source: William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion
“Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
“Forty percent caffeine, sixty percent despair,” Nico said, rubbing his eyes. “Peak performance, really.”
Chapter 51”
Source: Voluntary pain
“Forty percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 36% independents, and 20% liberal. And these independents are abandoning the Democrat Party in droves. And a key point, they're abandoning the Democrat Party without the Republican Party giving them any reason to go to them. They're just abandoning the Democrats because they don't like what they see.”
“Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.”
“Forty percent of slave owners were white women. It was white women who made the market for Black women's breast milk and who were attended by Black women in the big house. It was white women who upheld much of the day-to-day white supremacy – the schoolteachers, the store clerks, the waitresses. And it is now often white women activating police interactions with Black people.”
Source: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
“Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.”
“Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.”
“Forty percent of the workforce are white-collar workers, most of whom have some of the most tedious and idiotic jobs ever concocted. Entire industries, insurance and banking and real estate for instance, consist of nothing but useless paper-shuffling. It is no accident that the "tertiary sector," the service sector, is growing while the "secondary sector" (industry) stagnates and the "primary sector" (agriculture) nearly disappears. Because work is unnecessary except to those whose power it secures, workers are shifted from relatively useful to relatively useless occupations as a measure to assure public order. Anything is better than nothing. That's why you can't go home just because you finish early. They want your *time*”
Source: The Abolition of Work
“Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.”
“Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.”
“Forty-Three Candles
Even silence aches when it’s the only thing that comes to visit.
The clock gnaws each minute
mother’s hands tremble like autumn leaves,
father’s voice an old radio fading to static.
Your family orbits other suns,
siblings stitch their lives into quilts
you weren’t asked to hold.
The room grows teeth.
Walls hum with static,
while your phone stays stubborn as stone.
Is this freedom? An unlocked door
too heavy to push.
You swallow the quiet,
let it pool in your ribs
a language without translation.”
“Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?”
Source: Hellfire
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went.”
Source: A Maze of Death
“Forty-two:
On your first mission into space,
you recall your mother’s umbilical cord
being cut from you.
Your high heels floating down the river,
all the way into the Atlantic Ocean.”
Source: Dark Sparkler: Provocative Poems on Hollywood's Tragic Starlets from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy
“Forty was when you met yourself in the doorway and could take stock one
last time, before it was too late to change direction.”
Source: The Morning Star
“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
Source: Billy Budd and Other Tales
“Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.”
“Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.”
“Forty years ago, the Young Lords stepped to the forefront. They organized, advocated, took militant action to let the world know about the deplorable living conditions of Puerto Ricans and Latinos, they inspired Puerto Ricans and Latinos to organize and take to the streets in communities across the United States.
(2009 speech)”
Source: Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976
“Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!”
“Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.”
“Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.”
“Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.”
“Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.”
“Forty years is a long time. People grow up, they grow up and leave the kids they were behind”
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
“Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.”
Source: The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy
“Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.”
“Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .”
“Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.”
“Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.”
“Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.”
Source: The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf
“Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese.”
Source: With Powder on My Nose
“Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.”
Source: ...with Kitchen Privileges.
“Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.”
“Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.”
“Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!”
Source: The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken
“Forward is not the advancement of our feet, but the holding of our hands.”
Source: Cardiac Ablation
“Forward is the only motion we know. The only direction that can make sense of the loss, that can perhaps, even one day, restore it.”
Source: The Lion of the Sea
“Forward is the posture of those who endeavor.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“Forward momentum often unfolds the most subtle resolutions.”
“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”
Source: Komarr
“Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.”
Source: Just One Day
“Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.”
Source: Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It
“Forward my mail to Mars.”
“Forward O Mind, no matter the pangs, never look behind!”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Forward O People, Forward O Mind, no matter the pangs, never look behind!”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Forward only, never back. Do not, in your mind, keep a tally of past horrors. Do not question decisions that cannot be unmade, dwell on actions that cannot be undone. The power to equivocate is no power at all, and that you've ever though it to be is your weakness.”
Source: What Should Be Wild
“Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.”