Quotations

"No one who isn't us is going to destroy Earth, and no one who isn't us is going to save it. The most hopeless conditions can inspire the most hopeful actions. We have found ways to restore life on Earth in the event of a total collapse because we have found ways to cause a total collapse of life on Earth. We are the flood, and we are the ark."

— Jonathan Safran Foer, American novelist, born 1977

"I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man."

— Henry Fonda, American actor, born 1905

"The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative."

— Jane Fonda, American actress, born 1937

"The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance."

— Joan Fontaine, English-American actress, born 1917

"Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time."

— Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina, born 1919

"Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art."

— Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina, born 1919

"The silence of God is God."

— Carolyn Forche, American poet, born 1950

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."

— Harrison Ford, American actor, born 1942

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

— Henry Ford, American industrialist, born 1863

"When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied, Produce it anyway."

— Henry Ford, American industrialist, born 1863

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't. You are right."

— Henry Ford, American industrialist, born 1863

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

— Henry Ford, American industrialist, born 1863

"I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive."

— George Foreman, American boxer, born 1949

"When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made."

— Edward Morgan Forster, English author, born 1879