Francis Chan Quotes

The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

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• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
  • World
  • Mother
  • Myself

• Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Hands

• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Important
  • Know
  • Thought

• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Believe
  • School
  • Happy

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Hands
  • Forget
  • Blood

• The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Feeling
  • Water
  • Start

• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Die
  • Will
  • Without

• I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Up
  • Music
  • Studying

• Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• 'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Great
  • Boss
  • Cake

• If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • God

• I am the funniest woman that you've ever known. I am the dullest woman that you've ever known. I'm the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known and you've never met anyone Who is as everything as I am sometimes.

  

  Alanis Morissette

• I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• Animals interest me more than anything else.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Wisdom

• Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Up
  • Teacher
  • Chicago

• For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Question
  • Value

• From the winter of 1821, when I first read Bentham, and especially from the commencement of the Westminster Review, I had what might truly be called an object in life; to be a reformer of the world. My conception of my own happiness was entirely identified with this object.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Life
  • World
  • Winter

• The point of your life is to point to Him...it is His movie, His world, His gift.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Life
  • World