Francis Chan Quotes

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.

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• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • True
  • Me
  • Femininity

• In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Fighting
  • Place
  • Debate

• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Violence

• You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Literature

• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Great
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Ambiguity

• What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Desire

• For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • She
  • Man

• I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Up
  • Age
  • Player

• Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power

• Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Bitter

• I am tired and I am dying, and I want to be merciful. I want to forgive you. But when God summons me and says, But it wasn't for you to forgive, Mullah, what shall I say?

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • God
  • Tired
  • Dying

• Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • She
  • Death

• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

  

  Luigi Pirandello
  • King

• 1. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Hand
  • Rest

• In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Different
  • Parents

• Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Kids
  • Today

• Personally, I just want to work on stuff that challenges me, that excites me, and that I think is original. You want to do something that does to other people what films do to you. It's the most wonderful thing in the world when you can lose yourself from reality and go into a story, and believe it and go on that journey with people, and you have to work that will somehow do that. It won't always, but hopefully sometimes.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Stuff

• The best-selling magazines to men are Playboy and Penthouse. These represent men’s primary fantasy: access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection. The best-selling magazines to women are Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, representing the female primary fantasy: better homes and gardens and a family circle.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Remember

• I don't wear a lot of high heels.

  

  Kesha
  • High

• It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

  

  Joan Armatrading

• If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Risk
  • Stuff