F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Four cups of coffee a day keeps depression at bay.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Four cups of coffee a day may keep depression at bay.”
“Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.”
“Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.”
“Four days,” he said, just loudly enough for those in the room to hear. “That’s how long it took me to defeat Sam Temple.” Caine locked eyes with Drake. “Four days,” Caine sneered. “What did you accomplish in the three months I was sick?”
Drake met his gaze, then wavered, and looked down at the floor. There was red in his cheeks, a dangerous glitter in his eyes, but he could not meet Caine’s triumphant scowl.
“Remember this when you finally decide it’s time to take me on, Drake.”
Source: Hunger
“Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“Four decades later, my stimming is often discreet. You’d have to be watching closely to notice.”
Source: Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life
“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”
“Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.”
Source: On War
“Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules that constitute living organisms on a planet, and the nuclei of these same elements interact to generate the light of its star. Then the organisms on the planet come to depend wholly on that starlight, as they must if life is to persist. So it is that all life on the Earth runs on sunlight. [Referring to photosynthesis]”
“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”
“four-fifths of the words attributed to me are things I never said, and would not agree with.
If your words cannot stand on their own, adding my name won't make them less flimsy”
“Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.”
Source: Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four
“Four fucking days,' Cassian hissed from where he and Azriel monitored the castle. 'We've been sitting on our asses for four fucking days.'
Azriel sharpened Truth-Teller. The black blade absorbed the dim sunlight trickling through the forest canopy above. 'It seems you've forgotten how much of spying is waiting for the right moment. People don't engage in their evil deeds when it's convenient to you.'
Cassian rolled his eyes. 'I stopped spying because it bored me to death. I don't know how you put up with this all the time.'
'It suits me,' Azriel didn't halt his sharpening, though shadows gathered around his feet.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Four gargoyle brothers came and went with their mates, which included a wolf shifter, a Pegasus shifter, a gargoyle, and Kayla (a tree witch). Only one remained unattached, the middle brother, Gavin. He swore it would always remain that way.”
Source: Stone Cursed: Zodiac Shifters: Taurus
“Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.”
“Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.”
“Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here--- every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.”
Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
“Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.”
“Four guys from England took us all by the hand.”
“Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.”
“Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
“Four hours in, and Regulus is reading in the sitting room with Marcel on one side and Malcolm on the other. It's the only book in the house they have for kids, one that was James' when he was a child. Malcolm is very invested, his fingers twisting Regulus' sleeve as he leans on his arm, inhaling in palpable excitement every time Regulus turns a page. On the other side, meanwhile, Marcel is passed the fuck out, drooling on Regulus' other arm, head resting in the crook of his elbow.
When Sirius shows back up, it's with apologies for taking so long, and gratitude for Regulus helping him out. He holds out his hands in offering, ready to go, and Marcel twists up to whisper in Malcolm's ear. Malcolm looks down at Marcel, then looks at Regulus, then looks at Sirius with his brave face on.
Malcolm says, bluntly, "We want to stay here.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“Four hours later, Gus, Carmen, and Oliver shared a celebratory bottle to toast the best meal they had ever cooked on the fly: plates of paella-inspired risotto with clams, salt-crusted trout with fennel, thinly sliced Wagyu beef with thyme butter, and a trio of cream puffs flavored with ginger, green tea, and chocolate-chili, among other dishes.”
Source: Comfort Food
“Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.”
“Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.”
“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.”
“Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.”
“Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush our little want to be big; we come, not knowing that all the work is so much busyness of mind; all the worry, so much busyness of heart. As the sun warms anything near, being warms everything still and the great still things that outlast us make us crack like leaves of laurel releasing a fragrance that has always been.”
“Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.”
Source: Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart
“Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.”
“Four impressionable years spent in a number of very different hospitals convinced me once for all that nursing, if it is to be done efficiently, requires, more than any other occupation, abundant leisure in colorful surroundings, sufficient money to spend on amusements, agreeable food to re-establish the energy expended, and the removal of anxiety about illness and old age; yet of all skilled professions, it is still the least vitalised by these advantages, still the most oppressed by unnecessary worries, cruelties, hardships and regulations.”
Source: Testament of Youth
“Four in a row! We are overwhelmed with gratitude. This remarkable achievement is a testament to the bravery of our clients and the creativity of our teams around the world.”
“Four in the afternoon, and Haga in Gothenburg is still shrouded in a cinnamon mist. A smell that will often lead you, as it will everywhere in Scandinavia, to knots and twists and bundles of dough laced with pearl sugar, butter and spice.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“Four inch nails is more like it!”
“Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.”
“Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form”
“Four key words--helped make my dreams come true. They are: dedication, balance, risk, and love.”
Source: A Winning Edge
“Four kids in T-shirts and jeans jam on a powwow stage. They’re grinning, bouncing, fully engaged with their music, each other, and the relaxed crowd. I’m splitting fry bread with a cousin as we cheer on the band, and across the tent, a young girl reading a paperback catches my eye.
In that moment, I wish for more characters like those kids in the pages of children’s books.
This anthology is a fulfillment of that wish.”
Source: Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
“Four laughs vibrate in harmony,
Warm
Delicious
Real.”
Source: Audition
“Four-leaf clovers," she said. "I've been finding them everywhere, in the oddest places."
Star stepped out of the garden bed and gently plucked the clover from Georgia's hand, pinching it between her fingers. "Well, look at that," she said softly. She glanced at Georgia. "My grandma Emma was Irish, raised near Galway---that's where our red hair comes from--- and she loved four-leaf clovers. Always felt they connected her with the country of her birth.”
Source: Recipe for a Charmed Life
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!”
“Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.”
“Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Four liars are about to be burned -A”
“Four light-years from the second largest pulsar, past the black dust and the white. In a small circle of golden light, made by a careful teenage star, I found you," Aexandria said seriously. "No matter what I did or said, there you stood. Like a fixed point, and the Earth moved around you.”
Source: The Weight of the Stars
“Four limbs good, six limbs bad.”
Source: A Darkling Sea
“Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.”