F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden
Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
“Freiheit ist kein abstrakter Wert, sondern eine institutionalisierte Praxis, die Kategorien wie den Willen, die Wahl, das Begehren und die Gefühle prägt.”
“Freiheit ist unteilbar - Verantwortung auch!”
“Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.”
“Fremdsprache ist nicht gleich Fremdsprache. Bilingual ist nicht gleich bilingual.
Wenn Sie an Bilingualität denken, welche Sprachen fallen Ihnen ein? Deutsch und Französisch? Deutsch und Englisch? Deutsch und Chinesisch? Sprachen, die sich gut machen im Lebenslauf, in der Wirtschaftswelt, im Arbeitsleben. Sprachen mit Prestige.
Dachten Sie auch an Deutsch und Türkisch? Deutsch und Arabisch? Deutsch und Rumänisch?”
Source: Sprache und Sein
“Fremen possessed a highly evolved conscience which centered on their own welfare as a people. It was only to outsiders that they seemed brutish-just as outsiders appeared brutish to Fremen. Every Fremen knew very well that he could do a brutal thing and feel no guilt. Fremen did not feel guilt for the same things that aroused such feelings in others. Their rituals provided a freedom from guilts which might otherwise have destroyed them. They knew in their deepest awareness that any transgression could be ascribed, at least in part, to well recognized extenuating circumstances: "the failure of authority," or "a natural bad tendency" shared by all humans, or to "bad luck," which any sentient creature should be able to identify as a collision between mortal flesh and the outer chaos of the universe.”
Source: Children of Dune
“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.”
Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution
“French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.”
“French braids. Are they cute? Yeah. Is it a process? Unfortunately. They’re so tight I can feel my thoughts.”
Source: On the Come Up
“French cheese will now be artificially colored to fit in with its new humanitarian guidlines.”
“French chemist Joseph Fourier calculated that the Earth was warmer than it should be given the heat hitting the planet. In 1824, he theorized that gases in the atmosphere must trap heat. In 1837, he predicted that overall levels of warming could change depending on human behavior and activity.”
Source: Carbon: The Book of Life
“French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.”
“French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.”
“French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.”
“French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.”
“French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.”
“French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.”
Source: Almost French
“French. Feel. Finger. Fuck.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“French fries are America’s vegetable of choice, and the average American eats the fat equivalent of one whole stick of butter each day. This has forced airlines to add more fuel to planes to compensate for heavier passengers, manufacturers increase the size of car seats for children while selling seat belt extenders for adults, and curved shower curtain rods are creating space for those needing extra room while bathing. There is no way one size can possibly fit all. Time reports, “As Americans have grown physically larger, brands have shifted their metrics to make shoppers feel skinnier—so much so that a women’s size 12 in 1958 is now a size 6.” Disguising this doubling in size is called vanity sizing but has been derided as “insanity sizing”.”
Source: TV DINNERS UNBOXED: The Hot History of Frozen Meals
“French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.”
“French fries. I have been obsessed with them since I was born. I like big, big steak fries, curly fries, seasoned fries - any kind!”
“French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.”
“French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.”
“French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.”
Source: Chomsky Notebook
“French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.”
“French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.”
“French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.”
“French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use of that tipsy, euphoristic prose-poetry which is one of the more tiresome manifestations of the French spirit.”
Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
“French is soon to be replaced by a new international language which will have all of Europe talking.”
“French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
“French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”
Source: Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
“French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.”
“French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris”
“french kisses
french fries
him
tonight”
“French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.”
“French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God and traveled in his very own Pullman car, and Emmie Hubbard of the Uncas Road, who painted the most beautiful pictures when she was drunk and burned them in her woodstove when she was sober, were all ten times more interesting to me than Milton's devil or Austen's boy-crazy girls or that twitchy fool of Poe's who couldn't think of any place better to bury a body than under his own damn floor.”
Source: A Northern Light
“French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.”
“French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they aren't panicked about their children's well-being. This calmer outlook makes them better at both establishing boundaries and giving their kids some autonomy.”
Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)
“French parents don’t just think these separations are good for parents. They also genuinely believe that they’re important for kids, who must understand that their parents have their own pleasures. “Thus the child understands that he is not the center of the world, and this is essential for his development,” the French parenting guide Votre Enfant explains.”
Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
“French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.”
“French people are Italian people in a bad mood.”
“French people are strange about America, I think.”
“French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.”
Source: Wars I have seen
“French people fucking love Harlem for some reason.”
Source: In Limbo
“French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.”
“French toast? Frittata?
Definitely frittata.
Leaving the table again, she transferred a small packet from freezer to fridge. It was salmon, home-smoked on the island and more delicious than any she had ever found elsewhere. Smoked salmon wasn't Cecily's doing, but the dried basil and thyme she took from the herb rack were. Taking a vacuum-sealed package of sun-dried tomatoes from the cupboard, she set it on the counter beside the herbs. Frittata, hot biscuits, and fruit salad. With mimosas. And coffee. That sounded right. Eaten out on the deck maybe?
No, not on the deck, unless the prevailing winds turned suddenly warm.
They would eat here in the kitchen, with whatever flowers the morning produced. Surely more lavender. A woman could never have enough lavender- or daylilies or astilbe, neither of which should bloom this early, but both of which had looked further along than the lavender, yesterday morning, so you never knew.”
Source: Sweet Salt Air
“French toys are usually based on imitation, they are meant to produce children who are users, not creators.”
Source: Mythologies