Francis of Assisi Quotes

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Francis of Assisi

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• I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Internet
  • Passwords

• Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • Hand
  • Everyone

• Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Men
  • Stronger
  • Weakness

• As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • English

• Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Discrimination
  • Agenda

• I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Me

• Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Islamic
  • Nationalism
  • Cocktail

• One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Doing

• Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • World
  • Idea
  • Everyone

• I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Good
  • Job
  • Age

• My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • She
  • Sister

• When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Attitude
  • Author

• How does a guy look at another guy's hairy ass, and find love?

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Guy

• It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • True
  • Political

• To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • Church

• So I will find my fears and face themor I will cower like a dogI will kick and scream or kneel and pleadI'll fight like hell to hide that I've given up

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Up

• Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Sense
  • Universal

• I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Success

• I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Dog
  • Bed
  • Quotation

• The broad range of services we provide across our five businesses, together with our deep industry expertise, continues to differentiate Accenture, and we remain the partner of choice for the world's leading companies.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • World
  • Together
  • Deep

• If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

  

  Francis of Assisi