Francis Chan Quotes

Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.

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• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Health

• I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • America
  • Parents
  • Doing

• Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Need

• It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blame

• People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

  

  Anna Quindlen
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don't want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt: that I didn't belong, that I would never succeed in the medium that I'm choosing to pursue because my hair isn't straight or my skin isn't light or my eyes aren't bright.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Girl
  • Feeling
  • Light

• As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Road
  • Teen

• What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.

  

  James Comey
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Up
  • Quality

• Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Heart

• For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that's the best part about all of this.

  

  Alexandra Daddario

• I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

  

  Lech Walesa

• If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.

  

  Anita Borg
  • People
  • Society
  • Technology

• I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Character
  • Success
  • Beginning

• Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Law

• There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Literature

• The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Time
  • Bee

• Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.

  

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