Francis Chan Quotes

A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.

Francis Chan

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• Eternity
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• Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Different
  • Own
  • Personal

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Words
  • Change

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

  

  Gay Talese
  • News
  • Impact
  • Well

• I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

  

  Larry David
  • Write
  • Idiots
  • I Write

• I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • May
  • Power
  • Beliefs

• The work of creation is never without travail

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work

• My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Business

• What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women

• Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Sleep

• Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money
  • She

• Principal Skinner's kitchen catches on fire in the middle of dinner with Superintendant Chalmers

  

  Aurora
  • Fire
  • Kitchen

• As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Question

• Regional interest rate differentials persisted until around the time of World War I and helped shape the attitudes of Americans living in western areas toward the nation's financial system.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • American

• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  

  John Polkinghorne

• May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

  

  George Washington
  • Heaven
  • Beneficence

• When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Mind
  • Inspiration
  • Relax

• Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Time
  • Experience

• In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women.

  

  Anita Rau Badami
  • Women
  • Book
  • Exploring

• A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Christian
  • Heaven
  • Eternity