Francis Chan Quotes

God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

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• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Today
  • Write
  • Give

• Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man.

  

  Malcolm X

• Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Pain

• 'I assure you, paladin king, that if I had a sword in hand, I would willingly cut out your heart, here and now. If you expect me to beg look elsewhere. The fool monk can bring me to my knees, but if I am not there of my own choosing, then calling it begging would ring as hollow as does your crown, yes?' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • King

• As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Rest
  • Commitment

• In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Thinking

• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Important
  • Girl

• Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Men
  • Father

• I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Art
  • Why

• Movies are an expensive business.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Business

• Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

  

  Amelie Nothomb
  • Great

• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Truth

• The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.

  

  Arthur Middleton
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Fall

• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • God
  • Real
  • Trying

• But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Done
  • Light

• Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Life
  • Character
  • American

• It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Children

• God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

  

  Francis Chan
  • God
  • Religious
  • Preacher