F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“From Teheran to New York, from Melbourne to Mumbai, a woman still can't walk in the city the way a man can.”
Source: Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
“From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal? Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.”
“From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE”
“From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins. To take into the inmost shrine of the soul the irresistible forces whose puppets we seem to be - Death and change, the irrevocableness of the past, and the powerlessness of Man before the blind hurry of the universe from vanity to vanity - to feel these things and know them is to conquer them.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
“From that date she had had no other chaperone than Nurse, but, as she pointed out to Lady Denny, since she neither went into society nor received guests at Undershaw it was hard to see what use a chaperon would be to her.”
Source: Venetia
“From that day on, I looked at what I believed to be "curses" as blessings, and I now realize that the ability to do so makes one a champion more than landing a perfect triple lutz does.”
Source: The Great Eight: How to Be Happy Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable
“From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.”
“From that day on they lived together as equals, united by their great love for each other.”
Source: Uther and Igraine / Love Among the Ruins / The Slanderers
“From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.”
“From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.”
“From that first day in his church, Jacks had wanted to watch her. He wanted to know what her voice sounded like, what her skin felt like. He'd followed her, listened to her prayer- hated her prayer. It had been one of the most god-awful prayers he'd ever heard. And yet even then he hadn't been able to walk away. He wanted a piece of her. To keep her. To use her for later.
At least that's what he'd told himself.
She was only a key.
A human.
She wasn't an obsession.
She wasn't his.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“From that first little touch, the whole world had shifted. Where before there was just one thing I could not live without, now there were two. There was no division – my love was not split between them now; it wasn’t like that. It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice its size in that moment. All that extra space, already filled. The increase was almost dizzying.”
“From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms.”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.”
Source: The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter
“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators.”
Source: The City & the City
“From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.”
“From that mild dissociation, I quickly went into a deeper dissociative state if there was conflict around me, if someone expressed strong emotions, or if something unpredictable happened. Although these difficult situations triggered me, they brought out behavior that helped me do well when the going got tough. I loved solving problems and getting into the thick of things and also had well-developed skills in reading people and anticipating their needs.”
Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.”
Source: Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
“From that moment on, Batman Returns was destined to become what it ultimately turned out to be: un film de Tim Burton...with Batman in it.”
Source: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
“From that moment on, I was filled with hatred for my body. Our bodies, tossed there like lumps of meat. Our filthy, rotting faces, reeking in the sun.”
Source: Human Acts
“From that moment on, Stella’s life was no longer her own. Taking care of seven kids was a twenty-four-hour-a-day job with no weekends off or vacation time.”
Source: Murder at Mabel’s Motel
“From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.”
“From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.”
“From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.”
“From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.”
Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
“From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“From that moment the pendulum went into reverse”
“From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the supplying of man's commercial and industrial needs... The electronic amplifier tube now underlies the whole art of communications, and this in turn is at least in part what has made possible its application to a dozen other arts. It was a great day for both science and industry when they became wedded through the development of the electronic amplifier tube.”
“From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene, broken by intervals of begged and stolen rides, on trains and trucks, and on country wagons with he at twenty and twentyfive and thirty sitting on the seat with his still, hard face and the clothes (even when soiled and worn) of a city man and the driver of the wagon not knowing who or what the passenger was and not daring to ask. The street ran into Oklahoma and Missouri and as far south again as Mexico and then back north to Chicago and Detroit and then back south again and at last to Mississippi. It was fifteen years long.”
Source: Light in August
“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“From that point on, he only had one goal: to be whatever Sophie needed.
Not the hero.
Not the one taking charge of everything.
Just a guy ready to listen and help and be there for her.
A friend.
Until she was ready for more.”
“From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your aunt" and it would take a longtime for our children to even understand that we were siblings first.”
Source: Sour Heart
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”
Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe
“From that poorly lit room on the top floor of a tiny mini mall in Sedona, a stranger told me exactly what I knew already. I guess that's what I was looking for, someone to see me and my fears and my flaws. To see all of it and to tell me to not give up. I didn't know I was searching for hope.”
Source: I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
“From that position he had a clear view of Lydia within her garden, working with an admirably single-minded steadiness.
She'd changed her hair. She normally pulled all of it straight back and off her face and bound it simply, letting part of its coiled length hang down beneath the plain white muslin of her cap. But on this morning she had not been so severe with it. He liked the fuller, softer waves of brown about her forehead and her temples.
"So," he told Pierre, "it would be useful for me, while I'm here, to learn more English, so that in the future I can speak to those I capture."
"You are maybe overconfident, Marine, to think you will return to war."
"I'll be exchanged eventually." With a shrug he said, "So then in English, tell me, would you tell someone that it's nice, the way they wear their hair today?"
Pierre's glance held amusement. "This is how you deal with men you capture, eh? You compliment their hair? It's very threatening and very tough, I'm sure it leaves them terrified."
He hadn't had much cause for smiling since coming here, but Jean-Philippe felt his features relaxing now into a genuine smile at the other man's dry remark, and without meaning to, he looked again toward Lydia.
And found her looking straight back at him.
Once he'd been hit an inch under his heart with a bullet- there had been no pain but he'd lost all the wind from his lungs and been knocked right off balance, and what he felt now felt like that. This time, though, despite its swift and sudden strike, the feeling was decidedly more pleasurable. As he sent a nod across the clearing to acknowledge her, his smile of its own volition broadened like a schoolboy's.
He was letting down his guard, he knew, allowing the Acadian to witness where his interest- and his weakness- lay, but for some reason, standing in the sunshine with her watching him, he'd ceased to care.”
Source: Bellewether
“From that Sunday on Preacher Franklin added a new song to the service called , 'I Am Better Than You' and it went like this:
Many years I wandered lost and scared,
Through troubles and toils my wickedness flared
Then in my darkness I realized what I needed to do
Now I do all the right things and I am better than you.
Chorus:
Better than you, yes I am better than you
My life has a purpose and I can tell you what to do
Better than you, yes I am better than you
If you are a scared miserable loser,
I will help pull you through.”
Source: The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Complete Story
“from that terrible love the soft pure hands
gave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”
Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.”
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling.”
“From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations.
I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.”
“From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often at war with each other that with Continental powers, and - except under Oliver Cromwell - scarcely very successful on those occasions when they did engage the Dutch, or the French, or the Spanish.”
Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal. Chicago whites employed every measure, from 'restrictive covenants' to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated.”
“From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.”
“From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.”
“From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.”