For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
‐‐ Saint Bernard
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony
For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
‐‐ Jay Baruchel
For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes
For every character, I think about who they are, their story, what they are, and who they were before their game started. What was their life like? Where did they grow up? What were their parents like?
‐‐ Tim Schafer
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
‐‐ Richard Cobden
For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one.
‐‐ Freddie Highmore
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
‐‐ Jim Rohn
For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.
‐‐ Joe Jamail
For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.
‐‐ Albert R. Broccoli
For every expert that says humans are the cause of 'climate change' there are 10 more who say we aren't.
‐‐ Bradley A. Blakeman
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
‐‐ Mary Kay Ash
For every family in liberal San Francisco that went solar with SunRun in 2010, nearly eight families in more conservative Fresno made the switch to our solar power service.
‐‐ Lynn Jurich
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
‐‐ Marya Mannes
For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
‐‐ Bo Bennett
For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone
For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.
‐‐ John Ridley
For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.
‐‐ Sergio Aragones
For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.
‐‐ Chuck Lorre
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
‐‐ Thor Heyerdahl
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson
For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
‐‐ Joe Mantegna
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
‐‐ Joan D. Vinge
For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
‐‐ Lance Gross
For every person that says, 'I love your work, and my daughter thinks you're great, and we watch all your movies,' and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, 'Who are you? What's your name? Are you on 'House of Cards'?'
‐‐ Anna Kendrick
For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
‐‐ Pam Brown
For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it doesn't mean they are capable of doing it.
‐‐ Greg Rucka
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
‐‐ Sarah Hall
For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
‐‐ Jello Biafra
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
‐‐ E. W. Howe
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.
‐‐ Paul Di Filippo
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
‐‐ Jack Canfield
For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
‐‐ Brian Setzer
For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige
For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.
‐‐ Gore Vidal
For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
‐‐ Kathie Lee Gifford
For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
‐‐ Liam Neeson
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
‐‐ John W. Gardner
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
‐‐ Maisie Williams