Francis of Assisi Quotes

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Francis of Assisi

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• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
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• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner
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• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
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• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Religion
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• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
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• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
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• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
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• One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

  

  Samantha Bond
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• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
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• I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Life
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• What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Thinking
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• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
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• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
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• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
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• Being a veganist is good for your health, it's good for the environment, and it's certainly good for the animals, but it also has a powerful spiritual component. When you begin eating consciously, with compassion and thoughtfulness, you attain a certain lightness and inner peace, a sense of connectedness to the larger world.

  

  Kathy Freston
  • World
  • Good
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• I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • World
  • Real
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• My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.

  

  Emilio Ambasz
  • Up
  • School
  • House

• It was weird playing against my teammates, especially facing Myers. The Venezuelan people enjoy the games. That's the way they react, and that's how we play.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Enjoy
  • Games
  • Teammates

• Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • World
  • Poverty