Francis Chan Quotes

God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Love
  • Service

• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Change
  • Market

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

  

  Pat Cash
  • Winning
  • More
  • Very

• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Effort
  • Safety

• In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Power
  • Order
  • Nuclear Power

• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Sometimes
  • Teacher
  • Advice

• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kids

• I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Writing

• You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Good

• UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.

  

  Lorrie Fair

• College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • Time
  • Great
  • College

• We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

  

  N.J. Berrill
  • Up
  • Men
  • Nature

• The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.

  

  David E. Cooper
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Commitment

• I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • May
  • American
  • Happy

• In science, every question answered leads to 10 more. I love that science can never, ever be finished. From a young age, people think, 'Science is hard and boring.' We don't tell children, 'Yes, you have to learn these formulae and theorems, but then you go on to learn about nuclear reactions and stars.'

  

  Elise Andrew
  • People
  • Children
  • Age

• You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

  

  Richard Masur
  • People
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Giving
  • Littles