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Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you ... "
... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible.
"Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?
FRONTA NULLA FIDES. Place no trust in appearances.
Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.
I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care.
F.E.A.R. Stood for face everything and recover
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon - O swallow swallow
The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
Fidarsi e bene, non fidarsi e meglio. [To trust is good, not to trust is better.]
To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
apapi mou, zoi mou" means my love, my life.
Ti amo. Esisti solo tu per me." I love you. You're the only one for me. "You're my pleasure, my sanity, my calmness, my home. My positive counterpart in every negative characteristic I own.
It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
He watched as Finnikin swung onto the horse, his sleeve stained with blood. Froi liked the way Finnikin reached behind him and took Evanjalin's hand, placing it around his waist. It made everything seem normal because Finnikin always wanted to touch her.
Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!
Part of Quintana had left this world and Froi knew that part of him was gone as well.
Froi noticed that she said "carrying mine," not "carrying you." Lirah and Gargarin still had not acknowledged him as theirs, and he realized that he wanted more from them than they were willing to give. But they seemed broken people who were not good with words, so he kept his silence.
io sui ici en liu dami amo' ('I am here in place of a friend love')
Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
[Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]
I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!
If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.
You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. I need to make my bones.
The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A
Shirley: "Christopher, would you like to tell Olivia what "F.I.N.E" means?"
Christopher: "Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional"
...
Olivia: "But what if you really do feel fine?"
Shirley: "Christopher, care to answer that?"
Christopher: "Um, there's no such feeling as fine.
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]
Frienship is eros ... without wings
Fangtasia, where all your bloody dreams come true,' said a bored female voice.
'Pam. Listen.'
'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.'
'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.'
'Fuck a zombie!
f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed
Festina lente may well be his motto
I told you," says Riley, looking pleased. "F.A.F"
"F.A.F?" I repeat, trying not to stare at her. "What's that?"
"Fine. As. Fuck.
For when last need to desperation driveth,
Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth.
[It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli
Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.]
Coimhead feara fhear na foighrde.
(Beware the anger of a patient man)
Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
(my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why I do this, I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented)
You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
Ane fals intent under ane fair pretence
Hes causit mony innocent for to de.
Grit folie is to gif over-sone credence
To all that speiks fairlie unto the.
Amigo! Amigo! (Calling out to the ITALLIAN Prime minister ... )
Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.
I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!
Furi just nodded with a secret smile on his face. If Joe or the caller only knew what was going on in Furi's mind. Goddamnit, Syn. He was so sated he was close to pulling out a cigarette and sparking one as if he were in his own bedroom. I'm in trouble. I want him ... bad.
Never Change F0r Someone!
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
In the months before coming to Italy, I was looking for another direction for my writing. I wanted a new approach. I didn't know that the language I had studied slowly for many years in America would, finally, give me the direction.
Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.
[Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]
Spira, spera.
(breathe, hope)
Aitisi nai poroja," replied Veikko, a pleasantry long grown routine, meaning, "Your mother fucks reindeer.
I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio
Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we!
Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi
I'm a...an otaku faery.
La Closerie, in Ansouis.
Ser mal profesor sale barato
Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness!
Faliure is not an option.
(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
Et itah se au ma! It is as you wish!
Furi wasn't going to start this relationship the same way. Syn was a bottom, the best kind of bottom. One that needed his top to take him where he could be completely carefree, allowing himself to soar. "Bottoming
corn maque choux. He
But something's missing ( Aber etwas fehlt ).
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ...
Blood!" Froi said, horrified. "Loins? Same loins you stick
"
"Froi!" Trevanion snapped.
"Flowing at times like a gutted pig," Evanjalin said.
"Evanjalin!
You're scum, Morelli! You're scum!
One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once.
[Lat., Omnes una manet nox,
Et calcanda semel via leti.]
Smooth words in place of gifts.
[Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]
Fache will do what no one else dares.
'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.
So Fnick, can I change channel?" Iggy asked. "There's a game on."
"Make yourself at home, Figgy." Fang said.
I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.
-Claude Frollo
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.
I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.
Fabulosity. It's a state of being.
Winna ye be gaein' awa', to write buiks, an' gar fowk fin' oot what's the maitter wi' them?
You speak like a jealous lover.
-Fola to Broichan
Fodor's Choice | The Ledbury.
We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]
Ego non baptiso te in nomine ... but make out the rest yourself.
Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)
Go home to Ravka, Nina. Be free, as you were meant to be. Be a warrior, as you always have been. Just save some mercy for my people. There has to be a Fjerda worth saving. Promise me
Safety lies in the middle course.
[Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]
Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk.
"What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad," Eve decided.
The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!
Men may die of imaginacioun,
So depe may impressioun be take.
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
F-A-I-T-H: Forsaking all, I trust him.
I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to ... befriend,
The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.
Futilitarianism.
The Inspector stood up. Worried. Fonso Spalato fell silent.
'What's wrong?' he said, ready to jump out of his chair and start running.
'Do you mind if I whinny again?' the inspector politely asked
Fuckeration; The meaning is that whatever you have gotten yourself into, it is one holy fucked up, fuckeration of a mess.
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
Hey, Fnick can I change the channel, the game's on." -Iggy
"Make yourself at home, FIGGY" -Fang