Francis Chan Quotes

God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

Francis Chan

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• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man.

  

  Malcolm X

• Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Pain

• 'I assure you, paladin king, that if I had a sword in hand, I would willingly cut out your heart, here and now. If you expect me to beg look elsewhere. The fool monk can bring me to my knees, but if I am not there of my own choosing, then calling it begging would ring as hollow as does your crown, yes?' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • King

• As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Rest
  • Commitment

• In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Important
  • Girl

• Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Men
  • Father

• I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Why
  • Art

• Movies are an expensive business.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Business

• I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Great

• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Truth

• The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Fall

• Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to know about to find. Also, just food-wise, if I'm eating ethnic cuisine - I hate that phrase, but still - If I'm eating Mexican food, I'm looking to see that there are Mexicans in the restaurant. They know if the food is being made right.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Food

• When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors d'oeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Up
  • She
  • Together

• I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Time
  • Gold
  • Simplicity

• Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy

• When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Power
  • Enemy
  • Chivalrous Man

• I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • God
  • Family
  • Friends

• I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

  

  Francis Chan
  • God
  • Religious
  • Preacher