Francis Chan Quotes
Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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A man who does not fool himself seldom cares much about fooling others. But the man who claims to have seen a ghost wants everybody else to believe in ghosts.
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I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.
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Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.
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Now if there's a smile on my face,It's only there tryin' to fool the public,But when it comes down to foolin' you;Now honey, that's quite a different subject.But don't let my glad expressionGive you the wrong impression.Really I'm sad.I'm sadder than sad.You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.Like a clown I pretend to be glad.
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Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
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I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.
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All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
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People don't necessarily want to step away from what they think they know of you. Getting to know this whole other persona and all of the things that come along with that, it can be confusing for people.
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Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.
