Top 82 Francis M Sayings

#1. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.

Francis Frangipane

Francis M Sayings #17463
#2. I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.

Black Francis

Francis M Sayings #35779
#3. I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game.

Francis Lee

Francis M Sayings #51656
#4. If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #55950
#5. I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #87387
#6. Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip.

Kathy Reichs

Francis M Sayings #134642
#7. As one would expect, the Pope's schedule is quite disciplined - he wakes up at four o'clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I'm totally kidding. Nobody's knees have time for that.

Jared Brock

Francis M Sayings #183782
#8. I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #212488
#9. I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.

Francis Fukuyama

Francis M Sayings #259095
#10. Even now, I am working to make sure that my family is set up for the future. When most people make that statement, they are talking about financial security for their last few years on earth. When I say it, I'm referring to the millions of years that come after that. People

Francis Chan

Francis M Sayings #263484
#11. I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

Francis Biddle

Francis M Sayings #269268
#12. I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #353322
#13. There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life.

Genie Francis

Francis M Sayings #359271
#14. Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #408436
#15. Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

Black Francis

Francis M Sayings #413159
#16. I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #415792
#17. well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago

Jon M. Sweeney

Francis M Sayings #431376
#18. I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #433888
#19. I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

Ron Francis

Francis M Sayings #447618
#20. If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #448088
#21. [We say things like] 'Well, I'm not sure You are worth it....You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I'm really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You'.

Francis Chan

Francis M Sayings #474637
#22. Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

Dorothy Parker

Francis M Sayings #553795
#23. Your part is to bring Him glory - whether eating a sandwich on a lunch break, drinking coffee at 12:04 a.m. so you can stay awake to study, or watching your four-month-old take a nap.

Francis Chan

Francis M Sayings #554153
#24. As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match
the Gospel, together.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #554642
#25. St. Francis was in some ways a fundamentalist, but he was fundamentalist about those passages that asked a lot of himself and his "form of life," whereas most reformers (and preachers) are fundamentalist about passages that ask a lot of

Hilarion Kistner O.F.M.

Francis M Sayings #575857
#26. He cupped her chin to still the movement. "Please, Ricky." he clutched her hand tighter to his chest. "Please... I'm not going anywhere." He leaned closer until his lips were mere millimetres from hers. "I promise.

Jacqueline Francis

Francis M Sayings #593716
#27. My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

Genie Francis

Francis M Sayings #616112
#28. I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

Elton John

Francis M Sayings #630315
#29. I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

Francis M Sayings #632970
#30. A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

Francis M. Lyman

Francis M Sayings #639192
#31. What I have found is that my fan base will follow me to whatever I'm doing. They gave me a big tune-in for Hallmark. They were just happy to see me working again, and my job is not to disappoint them, not to cheat them.

Genie Francis

Francis M Sayings #646930
#32. Because I'm the best fuck in the solar system. (Toreth)

Manna Francis

Francis M Sayings #652209
#33. When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.

Francis M. Lyman

Francis M Sayings #694983
#34. I've got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I'm okay.

Francis Chan

Francis M Sayings #730998
#35. I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #738477
#36. [Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change

Jon M. Sweeney

Francis M Sayings #744462
#37. I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #744495
#38. In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor, ... I underscore the verb 'stop.' I'm not saying 'bomb' or 'make war,' just 'stop.' And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #754965
#39. Sometimes I feel like when I make decisions that are remotely biblical, people who call themselves Christians are the first to criticize and say I'm crazy.

Francis Chan

Francis M Sayings #761928
#40. I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #762605
#41. I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

Francis Fukuyama

Francis M Sayings #783903
#42. I'm not a woman and i'm not a man, i'm just a thing with breasts and a penis".

Stuart Francis

Francis M Sayings #786413
#43. It doesn't matter what you want," Toreth breathed into his ear. "All that matters is what I want. Say it.

Manna Francis

Francis M Sayings #794023
#44. I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

Francis M. Lyman

Francis M Sayings #816044
#45. Children ... will never go astray while they are in good company.

Francis M. Lyman

Francis M Sayings #849051
#46. I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #885909
#47. I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Francis Bacon

Francis M Sayings #925148
#48. I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #960345
#49. Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.

James Gray

Francis M Sayings #963880
#50. His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.
("Introduction")

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

Francis M Sayings #967827
#51. Whenever people open their hearts to God in some way, the Lord wants to do something good. Even if it just got scheduled randomly for that day, I'm sure [Pope Francis] sees significance in that.

Ralph Martin

Francis M Sayings #1021397
#52. I'm not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

Sage Francis

Francis M Sayings #1025619
#53. Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #1070853
#54. I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #1101864
#55. Ly-di-ah! I sit beneath your window, laaaass, singing 'cause I loooove your a - "
"For the love of St. Francis of Assisi, someone call a vet. There is an injured animal screaming in pain outside," Charlotte interrupted the flow of music in ill-humor.

Michelle M. Pillow

Francis M Sayings #1109852
#56. If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

Francis Schaeffer

Francis M Sayings #1121200
#57. I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

Francis Fukuyama

Francis M Sayings #1131458
#58. I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #1161049
#59. The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?

Francis Macdonald Cornford

Francis M Sayings #1184743
#60. Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story.
("Introduction")

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

Francis M Sayings #1198896
#61. The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general ... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #1264546
#62. One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #1277332
#63. I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #1282391
#64. Francis Ford Coppola observed, "The way to come to power is not always to merely challenge the Establishment, but first make a place in it and then challenge and double-cross the Establishment.

Adam M. Grant

Francis M Sayings #1325480
#65. I'm the type of human who is interested most in the truth. God gave me a healthy love for the truth.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #1413462
#66. I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

John Francis Daley

Francis M Sayings #1439535
#67. Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.

Stewart Francis

Francis M Sayings #1447839
#68. When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

Francis Spufford

Francis M Sayings #1485254
#69. I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.

Michael Keaton

Francis M Sayings #1499880
#70. I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

Steve Coogan

Francis M Sayings #1505757
#71. The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Francis Collins

Francis M Sayings #1518643
#72. I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.

Joseph Fiennes

Francis M Sayings #1560404
#73. I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to.

John Francis Daley

Francis M Sayings #1565063
#74. Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

Francis Spufford

Francis M Sayings #1597005
#75. When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm here.' The Lord speaks this way, too ... Usually, Christmas seems like a very noisy feast, but we can use a bit of silence to hear these words of love, closeness and tenderness.

Pope Francis

Francis M Sayings #1598690
#76. I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.

Charles Francis Richter

Francis M Sayings #1654468
#77. Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

Francis Of Assisi

Francis M Sayings #1670146
#78. You can come round to my flat." Toreth's voice changed, sliding subtly into something hard-edged but seductive. "I don't need chains to make you do what I want. I don't need anything. I can take whatever I want from you, however I want it, and you can't stop me.

Manna Francis

Francis M Sayings #1701459
#79. Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

Francis M Sayings #1703394
#80. At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

Eric Maskin

Francis M Sayings #1753624
#81. Did you really think I didn't see that watch?

Manna Francis

Francis M Sayings #1844274
#82. My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea ... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis M Sayings #1868325

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