Francis Chan Quotes

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Football

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Doing
  • Hatred

• For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Long
  • Women

• When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

  

  Ice T
  • School
  • She
  • Man

• Being a single woman is like going off to war.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • War
  • Single
  • Woman

• 'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Night
  • Earth

• How many people you know who can name every serial killer who ever existed in a row?

  

  Eminem
  • People

• Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do-for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • American
  • Society
  • Law

• The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Sweet

• The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.

  

  Marc Faber
  • People

• I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Up

• But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Time
  • Problems
  • Saying

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

  

  Mary Quant
  • People

• The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.

  

  Charles Hummel
  • Important
  • Today
  • Energy

• I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

  

  William Monahan
  • Ocean
  • Atlantic
  • Homebodies

• I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Ocean
  • Staring