Francis Chan Quotes

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

Francis Chan

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• Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • First
  • Jump

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Myself

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Said

• Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Property

• Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• When I was younger, I didn't want to come to WWE because I didn't fit into the mold. I couldn't identify myself with the term 'diva.' The divas brand was meant to put a spotlight on the women, but the term, to me, felt more glamorous than me.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Women
  • Me
  • Myself

• Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Progress

• If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Women
  • Wish
  • Summer

• You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women

• When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• Kate O'Hare is a former SEAL and is currently in the FBI - we know that there are no women in the SEALs, but we think there should be.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Women

• Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also a women's health issue. The fact is that the salary women are paid directly impacts the type of health care services they are able to access for both themselves and their families.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

  

  Roy Orbison
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Eyes

• I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• There's a lot of stuff we need to correct.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Stuff

• Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Persons
  • Humans
  • Photography

• I've wanted to interview Hillary Clinton since I was 15 years old.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet

• My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

  

  Francis Chan
  • Women
  • Prayer