Quotes of: Francis Keyword

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

Francis Chan

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.

Blanche Lincoln

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Colin Powell

Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Ferg...

Jesse Jackson

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Daniel Burnham

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Greg Lynn

A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Joseph P. Bradley

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

Jerry Saltz

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

Stephen Greenblatt

The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness.

2 Peter and Jude

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

Angel Falls

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Are You My Mother?

But if I've learned anything about the world of grace, it's that failure is always a chance for a do-over.

All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.

Animal's People

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

Ascending

...as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...

Anybody Out There?

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum