F Quotes
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“From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).”
“From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.”
Source: On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg
“From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of a cop he fashions a compelling view of the Chicago Algren once called 'the dark city.' There's a unique quality to his essays which manage to be broodingly meditative even as their narrative drive keeps you turning pages.”
“From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.”
“From its earliest days, America has been an incubator of moral ambition.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.”
“From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of
inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orquestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution. Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro.”
“From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.”
Source: Religion and Art
“From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesians gorgeous work.”
“From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.”
Source: The Making of Modern Nevada
“From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it sleeps In its own little Lake. And thence at departing, Awakening and starting, It runs through the reeds And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
“From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.”
“From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.”
“From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)
“From its very beginning Christianity has been the proclamation of joy, of the only possible joy on earth. It rendered impossible all joy we usually think of as possible. But within this impossibility, at the very bottom of this darkness, it announced and conveyed a new all.-embracing joy, and with this joy it transformed the End into a Beginning. Without the proclamation of this joy Christianity is incomprehensible. It is only as joy that the Church was victorious in the world, and it lost the world when it lost that joy, and ceased to be a credible witness to it. Of all accusations against Christians, the most terrible one was uttered by Nietzsche when he said that Christians had no joy.”
Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
“From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.”
“From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.”
“From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.”
“From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.”
“From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.”
“From Job's perspective, God's answer is tantamount to a Copernican revolution. Job comes to realize that the world does not revolve around himself, not even around humanity. Creation is polycentric.”
Source: The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder
“From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.”
“From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.”
“From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.”
“From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.”
“From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.”
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)
“From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.”
“From junior high school on, I had increasingly strong feelings
of gender dysphoria, difference, and confusion. I felt very embarrassed and ashamed about my gender incongruity, but was totally
unable to express what I was feeling to anyone.”
Source: The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
“From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.”
“From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.”
“From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.”
“From: Kindle Book: The Best Spiritual Quotes: "Even the poorest among us deserve the dignity of equality.”
“From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.”
Source: The Fables of John Gay Illustrated
“From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.”
“From Kinshasa to Lagos to Addis Ababa, there are a multitude of business opportunities to invest in throughout the continent.”
“From Knight Rider’s KITT to today’s AI cars, science fiction finally parked in our garage. – AIinCars”
“From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.”
“From "Lady In Waiting" in the anthology The Morgue :
Now I have yet to meet the corpse could hold up its end of a conversation, so at most I might whistle while fixin’ one up ‘stead of engagin’ myself in any small talk that’s goin’ to be so one-sided anyways. But Cindy Flowers’ corpse weren’t no ordinary body when it walked upright, and it sure weren’t ordinary just because it was lyin’ before me in a pine wood box. So for the first time I felt the need to get a few things said to one of our visitors, and I leaned down to get myself real close to her face. Her eyes was closed ‘cause Pa had already sewed her lids shut.”
Source: The Morgue: An Anthology
“From Ladybug Girl on her personal Independence Day that launched this popular series:
'I'm not little,' she says. 'You're little.”
“From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.”
“From law arises security: From security curiosity: And from curiosity knowledge.”
“From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and narrow path-and hold tight until we reach our ultimate goal of eternal life with our Heavenly Father. Nephi promises that those who hold fast to the iron rod"would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction"”
“From 'Lessons from the Body' chapter (page 129): In both cases, a profound healing of a near-lethal disease occurred following healing intentions from outsiders. In both instances, the healing intention was prayer, an endeavor whose main characteristics involve compassion, caring, and love, commonly offered from a distance. Evidence has surfaced over the past few decades suggesting that the physiology of humans and nonhumans can be modified by these interventions.
Whatever you call it, the bottom line is that the thoughts of one caring individual can positively influence a sick individual at a distance, even when the recipient is unaware of the effort. Distant healing has been demonstrated in scores of laboratory studies in the past few years, and systematic and meta-analyses affirm that the effect is real.”
Source: On the Mystery of Being: Contemporary Insights on the Convergence of Science and Spirituality
“From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.”
“From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife,
what grain will be saved?
My son, believe me, nothing remains,
Only adult toil,
the furrow of fate in the palm.
Only toil,
Nothing more.”
“From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.”
“From limited educational opportunities to parental pressures, the factors influencing student underachievement are as diverse as the individual students themselves.”
“From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...”
“From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.”