F Quotes
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“From somewhere came the distant sound of thunder. The floor door opened, letting in a bracing rush of air, the cleansing breath of God himself, which meant they were nearing the coast of France. Normandy.”
Source: The Riveter
“From somewhere came the idea that there were many different levels of sleeping, of unconsciousness, and therefore of awakening. In the midst of this pleasant woozy calm - warm, pleasantly swaddled, self-huggingly curled up, a sort of ruddy darkness behind the eyelids - it was an easy and comforting thing to contemplate the many ways one might be away, and then come back.”
Source: Surface Detail
“From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.”
“From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart.”
“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be mistaken for light--a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes.
In about one and a half centuries--after the lovers who made the glow will have long been laid permanently on their backs--metropolises will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Shtetls will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples, invisible.
The glow is born from the sum of thousands of loves: newlyweds and teenagers who spark like lighters out of butane, pairs of men who burn fast and bright, pairs of women who illuminate for hours with soft multiple glows, orgies like rock and flint toys sold at festivals, couples trying unsuccessfully to have children who burn their frustrated image on the continent like the bloom a bright light leaves on the eye after you turn away from it.
Some nights, some places are a little brighter. It's difficult to stare at New York City on Valentine's Day, or Dublin on St. Patrick's. The old walled city of Jerusalem lights up like a candle on each of Chanukah's eight nights...We're here, the glow...will say in one and a half centuries. We're here, and we're alive.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“From space the little world looked like nothing much - perhaps a pitted and decaying pumpkin, dull orange-black in color, with a handful of tiny orbiting craft floating around it like fruit flies. Here and there amber lights shone out of craters in the surface. What seemed to be scores of deformed silver minnows nibbling the pumpkin rind - together with numbers of smaller noshmates - were actually huge transactinide carriers and lesser starships, either taking on fuel or docked nose-to-ground while their crews rested and recreated inside the not so heavenly body.
I have been told that the original Phlegethon of Greek mythology was a fiery river in Hades. Sheltok Concern owned a dozen or so similar way stations with brimstony names - Gehenna, Styx, Sheol, Tophet, Avernus, Niflheim, and the like - that served vessels bound to or fro the terrible R-class worlds where ultraheavy elements are mined.”
Source: The Sagittarius Whorl
“From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails”
“From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil War had more in common with Abraham than with us. If Christians are going to speak to that world and interact with it responsibly, they must interact with science.”
“From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“From space, the Bahamas is the most beautiful place on Earth.”
“From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.”
Source: Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything
“From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of a shock, it was unbelievable. I was like an untamed animal, I couldn’t accept it and I just wouldn’t accept it.”
Source: Harry's Fight: Harry Marsden - From Catholic Care Home Abuse To Gangster To Good Fellow
“From spiritual connection springs kindness, connection, social activism, and love.”
“From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki”
“From SpongeBob to Finding Nemo ... I'm still trying to decide which one I like more.”
“From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.”
“From stardust we were born, to stardust we return.”
“From stars, he was born, and to stars, he shall return.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“From stars to soil to synapses, arrangement of atoms dictates reality.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“From stars to soil to synapses,
arrangement of atoms dictates reality.
From inanimate to animate to sapient,
humanity is an affair of cosmic serendipity.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“From startups to big corporates, Imenso offers everything that needs to build world-class applications.”
“From steel-town Youngstown to the crumbling marble of Rome — Earl Jenkins ain’t no ordinary knight. He drinks monk-brew, fights Huns, and cracks jokes while the Empire burns.”
Source: From Youngstown to Rome´s Fall: How I, Earl Jenkins, Remembered What the Empire Forgot
“From steel-town Youngstown to the crumbling marble of Rome — Earl Jenkins ain’t no ordinary knight. He drinks monk-brew, fights Huns, and cracks jokes while the Empire burns.
Book I, How I, Earl Jenkins, Got Mixed up with a Bunch of sword-swingin´ Saints”
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.”
Source: The Sinews of Peace
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.”
“From stone to sand and sand to silt, what grows today will one day wilt.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.”
“From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the greatest source of error in the assertions of Benedict and Lombroso has been the finding of this or that variation in a criminal's brains, and maintaining such to be characteristic of the 'criminal constitution,' unmindful of the fact that like variations of structure may and do exist in the brains of normal, moral persons.”
“From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.”
“From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.”
“From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
“From such a young age, I was raised and have raised myself on film to such an extent, that it has sometimes bled into my reality. There are times I've felt very Mulholland Drive, where people's dream worlds overlap with each other.”
“From such an extravegent summary, we can draw only one conclusion: either we must condemn the Second Vatican Council which authorized it, or we must condemn the Council of Trent and all the Popes who, since the sixteenth century, have declared Protestantism heretical and schismatic.”
Source: Open Letter to Confused Catholics
“From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?”
Source: The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface
“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”
“From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.”
“From suffering comes your greatest growth.”
“From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.”
Source: Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg
“From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape”
Source: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
“From Summer's End
What we have is enough. It's more than we consciously realized.”
Source: Summer's End
“From Sunbelt to Rustbelt, North to South, East to West, once-thriving cities have become little more than drug-infested slums.”
“From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.”
Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems
“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animals--a precious gift. I still love animals infinitely more than human beings.”
Source: My Art, My Life
“From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of beauty, charm and elegance.”
“From sunset she appeared,
Her cloak pierced by a bloom
Of unfamiliar climes.
She summoned me somewhere
Into the northern gloom
And aimless winter ice.
And bonfire burned 'mid night,
And with its tongues the blaze
Did lick the very skies.
The eyes flashed fiery light,
And falling as black snakes
The tresses were released.
And then the snakes encircled
My mind and lofty spirit
Lay spread upon the cross.
And in the snowdust's swirl
To black eyes I am true,
To beauty of the coils.
(untitled: "From sunset she appeared")”
Source: Silver Age of Russian Culture
“From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.”
Source: The Fisher King
“From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.”