List of Topics starting with [F]

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter ...

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The ...

The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home.""It's better that ...

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

I have a black-belt in self-pity. I was an expert in the field. Still am. It's a skill you never forget.

When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...

Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this ...

They call me Domino for obvious reasons. One nudge in the right direction and I'm flat on my stomach.

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having ...

For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.

A number of visitors called this morning,' Finchley announced with some pride. He took a tray from a waiting footman and displayed it as if ...

As a girl, I had zero interest in the stove. I've always had a healthy appetite, especially for the wonderful meat and the fresh produce ...

A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident.

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

I am really proud to HAVE been an Arsenal player.

Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a ...

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my ...

Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said ...

Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen ...

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll grow, not by thy might. ...

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ...

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing ...

Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?

When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he ...

This was always the problem when talking to Fuka-Eri. All roads inevitably gave out.

I always did healthy things. I didn't sit around in nightclubs. Sure, I had my fair share of fun, but no one could ever accuse ...

When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds ...

Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

Perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, ...

Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a ...

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing ...

It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely ...

I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny ...

A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing.

Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I ...

The next day Georgia left for school before I even got to the breakfast table. From behind his newspaper, Papy asked tiredly, Are you girls ...

We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.

My dad did a load a day, folding it in front of whatever Eagles, Flyers, or 76ers game was on TV.

I googled "what to do when your future werewolf mate/boyfriend/best friend courts you and brings you a dead rabbit." First, there was a lot of ...

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles ...

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the ...

Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that ...

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to ...

Marathon tidying produces a heap of garbage. At this stage, the one disaster that can wreak more havoc than an earthquake is the entrance of ...

You can spend the rest of your life fighting to be respected, accepted and understood by the people you have created a life with or ...

Values and Traditions. Regardless of whether you actively try to pass on your values and beliefs to your baby, she is bound to absorb some ...

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in ...

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.

In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle ...

When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as ...

The fair breeze blew,The white foam flew,And the forrow followed free.We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna ...

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and ...

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle ...

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

I crossed the room at a run, barreled through the door to take the stairs, and crashed into Ranger. We lost balance and rolled tangled ...

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

Believe me, it is the sign of a great man, and one who is above human error, not to allow his time to be frittered ...

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, ...

Define Ignatian spirituality in a few words, you could say that it is: Finding God in all things Becoming a contemplative in action Looking at ...

Everyone wanted to tell their stories and to know where they fit in their own fudoki. She was not that different.

Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged in what appeared ...

People are not born mentally tough. Mental toughness is developed by experience. Developing mental toughness is a very long process.

Some vampires wouldn't react if you shoved a rosary down their pants, though I wouldn't recommend testing the theory.

"Well, we knew it. Women can't sell movies".That's what it used to be like. "Well, this movie did well, but it's a fluke."

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

Every war is a national misfortune.

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.

The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, ...

You banged a priest last night, didn't you?""Yup."One of the elderly women behind them gasped in shock. Griffin turned around and gave her an apologetic ...

The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but ...

Things fall apart, and fade, and when these things happen you just need to pick yourself up and start over,

Let your dreams fly in the sky of imagination.

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.

Dresden was destroyed on the night of February 13, 1945," Billy Pilgrim began. "We came out of our shelter the next day." He told Montana ...

My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

Her painting was vaporous and unsubstantial, but it had a flowerlike grace and even a certain careless elegance. There

I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper ...

I like when people wear a WWJD bracelet, because it's like an example of the first thing Jesus wouldn't do, probably.

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and ...

The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush ...

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in ...

Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being ...

I am not a birch.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical ...

The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, ...