Francis Chan Quotes

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

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• We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • May
  • Mother
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• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• You never grow out of high school sadly.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • School
  • High
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• There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Think
  • Game
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• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Good
  • Understand

• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Mother

• I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Doing
  • Ball
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• If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Good
  • Better
  • Committee

• The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Book

• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences...

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • God
  • May

• Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • War
  • Violence

• Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

  

  James Gleick
  • People
  • Technology

• The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Faith
  • Choices
  • Satan

• Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.

  

  Ato Boldon
  • Life
  • Athlete

• I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.

  

  Jessie Buckley

• Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • God
  • Small
  • Brain

• I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

  

  Craig Kilborn

• Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

  

  Craig Bierko
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Movie

• Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution.

  

  James McAvoy

• Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Human
  • Identity

• Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • Magic
  • Wine
  • Drunk

• I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Mind
  • Christian

• I'm a low maintenance girl. I try to do very little when I don't have to. I find that if I have regular 'maintenance' treatments, I can be ready to go out in 5 minutes. I get my hair coloured, have regular massages, and love getting my lashes tinted and my brows shaped. Plus heaps of exercise, and as much sleep as possible. That way when I'm going out all I have to do is slick on some gloss, and a bit of blush and I am ready to go! Of course the LA sun helps too.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Sleep

• Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Christian
  • Helping
  • Spread