| Ferdinand Mount |  All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
Ferdinand Mount |
| Ferdinand Mount | For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount |
| feudalism | Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Barbara Amiel
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| Flann O'Brien | The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
Flann O'Brien |
| Florenz Ziegfeld | I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
Florenz Ziegfeld |
| Floyd Abrams | I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Floyd Abrams |
| foreshortening | I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
Max Beckmann
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| foundation | I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
Jon Lee Anderson
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| Fran Drescher | Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
Fran Drescher |
| Fran Lebowitz | I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz |
| Fran Lebowitz | Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz |
| Frances Perkins | Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Frances Perkins |
| Frances Wright | However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
Frances Wright |
| Francis Bacon | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola |
| Francis Lockier | In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.
Francis Lockier |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| Francois Quesnay | Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.
Francois Quesnay |
| Francoise Sagan | A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Francoise Sagan |
