F Quotes
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“Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Foxbrush sneezed again.
He couldn't help himself. It's not something a fellow likes to do when a stunningly beautiful woman is leaning toward him with an expression on her face like Nidawi's wore. But sneezes are not prey to the wants or wishes of those inflicted with them. He sneezed so violently that he nearly knocked his forehead against Nidawi's exquisite little chin. She leapt back lightly, frowning at first, then shaking the frown into a rain of laughter.”
Source: Shadow Hand
“Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.”
“Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.”
“Foxes go to ground in the winter.
But they don't fear the cold.”
Source: Rule of Wolves
“Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I consider all the different methods of killing foxes, my view, backed up by Lord Burns, is that hunting with hounds is the most natural way to kill them . We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends - and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too - is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different.”
“Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.”
“Foxes were dreaded animals. They were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the mountains, but they were known to be fiendishly clever. some people even believed that foxes possessed evil magic. It was said that a fox could lure a man to his doom, tricking him into coming to its den, where somehow he would be fed to its offspring.
"Even to say the word made a trickle of fear run down Tree-Ear's spine...
"'So it was dusk, and I was still a good distance away. Suddenly, a fox appeared before me. It stopped there, right in the middle of the path, grinning with all its teeth shining white, licking its lips, its eyes glowing, its broad tail swishing back and forth slowly, back and forth-'
"'Enough!' Tree-Ear's eyes were wide with horror. 'What happened?'
"Crane-man picked up the last morsel of rice with his chopsticks and popped it into his mouth. 'Nothing,' he said. 'I have come to believe that foxes could not possibly be as clever as we think them. There I was, close enough to touch one, with a bad leg as well - and here I still am today.”
Source: A single shard
“Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.”
“Foxtails
Meaning: Blood of my blood
Ptilotus | Inland Australia
Tjulpun-tjulpunpa (Pit.) are small shrubs that form spikes of purple flowers covered in dense white hairs. Leaves are covered in closely packed star-shaped hairs that slow the rate of water loss. Traditionally, women used the soft furry flowers to line wooden bowls in which babies could be carried.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.”
“Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.”
“Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.”
“Fozzy was slowly realising his mistake of not having taken his friends words of warning more serious all those years ago. 'She's an expensive filly, with double standards,' he had said. Fozzy had not listened.”
Source: JUST and EQUITABLE
“Fpr ome aftermppm a week leading up to the formal, the entire senior school body would pile into our massive gymnasium and learn dances that we would NEVER DANCE AGAIN, except at our own children's formals, perhaps. Nevertheless, we threw ourselves into the task as if we were living in a Jane Austen novel and this was the only way we would ever fit into society. (from How to Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Teenage Confusion)”
“Fr. Amphilochios, the geronta or elder on the island of Patmos when I first stayed there, would have been in full agreement. Do you know, he said, that God gave us one more commandment, which is not recorded in Scripture? It is the commandment love the trees. Whoever does not love trees, so he believed, does not love God. When you plant a tree, he insisted, you plant hope, you plant peace, you plant love, and you will receive God's blessing.”
“Fra banc to banc, fra wod to wod, I rin
Ourhailit with my feble fantasie,
Lyk til a leif that fallis from a trie
Or til a reid ourblawin with the wind.
Twa gods gyds me: the ane of tham is blind,
Ye, and a bairn brocht up in vanitie;
The nixt a wyf ingenrit of the se,
And lichter nor a dauphin with hir fin.
Unhappie is the man for evirmair
That teils the sand and sawis in the aire;
Bot twyse unhappier is he, I lairn,
That feidis in his hairt a mad desyre,
And follows on a woman throw the fyre,
Led be a blind and teichit be a bairn.”
“Fra i nostri corpi c'era una sorta di fratellanza, come se avessimo giocato insieme da piccoli. Come se a otto anni ci fossimo morsi a vicenda il polso per lasciare inciso un "orologio", il marchio delle arcate dentali che luccicava di saliva. Come se avessimo dormito nella stessa culla, tanto da credere che l'alito caldo dell'altro fosse l'odore stesso del mondo.”
Source: At the Wolf's Table
“Fra le tante cose che suscitano nell'uomo una sensazione di impotenza, l'architettura è più di ogni altra arte soggetta a condizionamenti. Luogo, materiale, destinazione, grandezza, costi, le bizzarre richieste del cliente, e inoltre i carpentieri, gli imbianchini, i mobilieri... [...] Una casa come testamento significa una casa come piacerebbe a me.”
Source: Arcobaleni
“Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.”
Source: A Christmas Wreath
“Fra poco ci sarà la nostra apertura di caccia ma prima, per il censimento della selvaggina, lo porterò sull'odore dei forcelli e sono certo che non sfigurerà nella sua prima vera ferma. Poi verranno le beccacce...
No, non sogno carnieri abbondanti, ma un andare lento nel bosco d'autunno con lui che sarà il mio ultimo cane da caccia, che ancora una volta mi porterà una beccaccia che rinchiuderà in sé foreste, spazi, cieli lontani e misteri della vita. Paesi e sogni di giovinezza per me, ora che il mio tempo scende al tramonto.”
Source: Aspettando l'alba e altri racconti
“Fracasa otra vez. Fracasa mejor.”
Source: El año en que me enamoré de todas
“Fracasar solo significa que e método que has intentado no era el correcto, no que sea culpa tuya.”
Source: Hello, Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life
“Fracasar solo significa que el método que has intentado no era el correcto, no que sea culpa tuya”
Source: Hello, Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life
“Fracassei em tudo o que tentei na vida.
Tentei alfabetizar as crianças brasileiras, não consegui.
Tentei salvar os índios, não consegui.
Tentei fazer uma universidade séria e fracassei.
Tentei fazer o Brasil desenvolver-se autonomamente e fracassei.
Mas os fracassos são minhas vitórias.
Eu detestaria estar no lugar de quem me venceu.”
“Frack To Bont by Stewart Stafford
Rip The Jacker,
Killy The Bid,
Ken F. Johnnedy,
But not Saesar, Cid.
Meddie Frercury,
Kanley Stubrick,
Lohn Jennon,
But no Magger of Jick.
Cilly Bonnolly.
Cave Dhappelle,
Pichard Rryor,
No Relch of Waquel.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
“Fracking ensures that the age of oil-and it's princely hydrocarbon cousin, the natural gas molecule-will not end because we have run out of fossil fuels. But it may end because burning these wonderful fuels puts the planet farther down a path we don't want to head down”
“Fracking exemplifies the technological wager, by which I mean a gamble or even a faith that we can transform the world in the pursuit of narrowly defined goals and successfully manage the broader unintended consequences that result. In many ways, we are gambling on present innovations. I think that if we are to live with high technology we cannot avoid this wager. The question is whether we can establish conditions to make it a fair and reasonable bet. In the case of fracking, I will argue, these conditions are largely not in place (3).”
Source: A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas
“Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.”
“Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?”
Source: The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
“Fracking is our biggest enemy right now in the U.S. Actually, not just in the U.S., because all our water systems are interconnected. Whether you're reading this in New York State or in Japan, fracking is screwing you over.”
“Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.”
“Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.”
“Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.”
“Fractals are just ways of organizing an infinite amount of information into a finite amount of memory; they are proof of intelligence.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Fractals
Sekiranya ia mengira
ini hanyalah permainan
penuh jebakan
Langit jenuh oleh tangisan hujan
Seperti tangga lagu dalam nada yang pilu
Paras hijau rembulan bertemu merah si gaun malam
Kautarik angka-angka itu menjauh dari kantungmu
Peruntungan yang letih kaucari
sembari menunggu pagi.
Tak terbayangkan sudah berapa banyak lilin yang membakar dirinya.
Sayap kupu-kupu yang terhenti oleh rasa gentarnya.
Setelah jeda, seekor ulat beringsut turun menyusuri anak-anak tangga.
Memutus tali harapan dari pisau yang ragu
Seperti perahu terpanah ombak merindu
Ke mana Ichimoku hendak pergi membawa dirimu?
Langit kelam tempat di mana semua kapal karam tenggelam
Lubang hitam menganga
di antara celah sempit segitiga bermuda.
Di sanalah konon akan kita temukan,
kawanan banteng yang mati mengenaskan.
November 2025”
“Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.”
“FRACTURE
It feels like I have slept a long time.”
Source: AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.”
Source: Wintergirls
“FRACTURE
The house was cool, and the kitchen was filled with the scent of the previous night’s dinner: garlic and fresh herbs, with the hint of the spices simmering on the stove.”
Source: AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“Fractures well cured make us more strong.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834
“Fracturing of the psyche is said to be conducive to creating the phenomenon that has been termed sleeper assassins. According to such theories, the first psychiatrists employed to master mind control studied mental patients who had been diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, which medical science has since renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder. Many of those psychiatrists are said to have been Paperclip Nazi doctors who were brought to the US after conducting radical psychiatric experiments on patients during the Holocaust – the same doctors whose victims not only included Jews, Gyspies, political agitators and homosexuals, but also the mentally ill.”
Source: The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
“Fradique looked intensely at me. 'You are the proof that God exists,' he said, 'and that he is quite mad'. He leaned towards me and kissed me, and I kissed him. Later we went back to looking at the maps, and played a game of chess. I asked him what he had meant when he spoke about God's madness. Fradique laughed. 'Only a thoroughly insane God could conceive of an angel, and then place her in Hell.”
Source: Nação Crioula
“Fragile as a leaf in autumn
Just fallin' to the ground
Without a sound”
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.”
“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.”
Source: Written On The Body
“Fragile egos are put on the line every day.”
“Fragile is the mind of those who cannot be humane.”
“Fragile systems and ideologies have a way of producing fragile minds and mindsets that rely on marginalizing others. The appropriate response to this reality is ultimately not to switch residential zip codes but to change governing ideology... To shift location from Egypt to Canaan, without changing the underlying social, political, and ideological determinants of marginalization, is to transfer the problem rather than resolve it.”
Source: Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus
“Fragility is the mask of mastery.”
Source: Waldmeer