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Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.

Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Faith parries all blows. Faith transforms poison into crystalline water.

Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Fashion has always been nourished by the past. At the end of the day, where the inspiration comes from doesn't matter. It's what you do with it. How you treat it, how you translate it into a contemporary wardrobe. You put it in a shaker.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering.

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.

First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their individuality, but a way to create community and harmony by deferring to the choices of people whom they trusted and respected.

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.