Quotes of: Francis Keyword

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Ellen Swallow Richards

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Matthew Henry

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.

Paul Nurse

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard John Neuhaus

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Sonia Sotomayor

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

William Blackstone

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

William O. Douglas

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

Willard Libby

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Kevin Spacey

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Eugene Kennedy

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

Chris Moneymaker

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

John Paul Stevens

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

George Fox

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Rob Bell

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

Eugene Kennedy

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Clarence Thomas

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

D. A. Carson

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Josh McDowell

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

Joel Osteen