Francis Chan Quotes

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Francis Chan

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• Failure
• Matter
• Succeeding

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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
  • Birth

• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Down

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Education
  • Devil

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friendship

• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Hand

• I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Why
  • Help
  • Philosophy

• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Clever

• The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • True
  • Know
  • Color

• That is why I say the nation needs a leader. Dr. Manmohan Singh has not even visited all the states in the five years of his prime ministership, while Advaniji is a leader who has, at some point in time, spent a night in our 400 districts.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Why
  • Night

• No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Respect
  • Husband
  • Legend

• The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Bad
  • Black

• I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film. But having everybody come together for it was really great. It was like a high school reunion. We all reminisced and just had a great time.

  

  David Fincher
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Sometimes the person that is best for you is the person right under your nose. I wanted to have a girlfriend in high school, and I know I would have treated a girl well, but instead I was just friends with a lot of girls. They ended up telling me later on, 'We're so perfect together,' but at the time, I wasn't the cool-enough guy.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Music
  • Country
  • Opinion

• Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Want
  • Fear
  • Emotions

• That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script Voltron is very matter of factly.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Voice
  • Matter
  • Actors

• Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Matter