All Quotes

For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
‐‐ Edward T. Hall

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.
‐‐ Bryan Lee O'Malley

For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
‐‐ Aeschylus

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
‐‐ David R. Brower

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig

For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.
‐‐ Thomas Sydenham

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
‐‐ David Friedman

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
‐‐ Nick Rahall

For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.
‐‐ Jeff Carlson

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
‐‐ Tom Glazer

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
‐‐ David Duchovny

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
‐‐ Anselm of Canterbury

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.
‐‐ Margaret Cavendish

For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
‐‐ Knut Hamsun

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
‐‐ Roger Bacon

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
‐‐ Herman Kahn

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
‐‐ Lactantius

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
‐‐ Arthur Hays Sulzberger

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
‐‐ Lactantius

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
‐‐ Origen

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
‐‐ Albert Camus

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
‐‐ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
‐‐ Tim Matheson

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
‐‐ Jesus Christ

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
‐‐ Floyd Patterson

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
‐‐ Maxwell Maltz

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.
‐‐ Max von Laue

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
‐‐ Boethius

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
‐‐ Lord Byron

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
‐‐ George Whitefield

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift