Francis of Assisi Quotes
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.
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The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
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My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called My Blue Heaven, which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
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Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
