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RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruc...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conse...
KLAUS TOEPFER We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conse...
KLAUS TOEPFER Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
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GARTH STEIN There is a huge boom with wireless now. It's really starting to pick up a great deal of momentum.
TARA HOWARD I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE There's a huge void in Bay Area sports broadcasting right now. I can't ever remember a time in 40 ye...
HANK GREENWALD Our record isn't too big of a deal right now. We know what we have to do, and as a team we know we c...
DAVID SCHULTZ We live in relative world with relatives.
DEYTH BANGER In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS Francis asked if we could bring up our medical brigade in January of 2005.
RICHARD SEIVERT Back in Newfoundland, we played in the kitchen because it was the biggest and warmest room in the ho...
ALAN DOYLE We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO We had our players helping out with instruction.
AL HAMMELL The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Given the company's small amount of debt relative to its cash flow, this is a good time to return ca...
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JAMES CORDIER Everybody knows that each game is huge, ... Our playoffs start now. They probably started a week ago...
SHAWN CHACON Asia is a battleground now. United has been there since buying its routes from Pan Am. American is t...
BOB HARRELL Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an ...
CHRISTO The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
CECELIA AHERN Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the...
FERNANDO PESSOA The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD There are huge amounts of wealth creation, especially given the disproportionate growth of those mar...
DAMIAN KOZLOWSKI Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.
MARY PIERCE We always go out to win, every time. We are down to just eight guys now, but we are still playing go...
EDGAR MORENO The closest thing to Maven we have.
MARE BARROW (KINGS CAGE) I have the highest regard for (Collins).
JIM SCHWARTZ We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The most expensive book I bought was $10. It's all relative to today's market.
JACK VAUGHN What our study shows is that children have a fundamental understanding of addition and of numbers an...
ELIZABETH SPELKE A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinia...
SHIMON PERES Now we can form an emotional relationship. It's all relative to the performances of the actors aroun...
RICHARD TAYLOR Education is a huge part of what we're doing right now. We're still doing what we can with our resou...
KAYE THOMPSON It's probably one of the biggest games we've ever played. Its huge. I'm so happy right now.
DANIEL SEDIN It's a huge concession on the part of Lowe's to downsize, ... For Lowe's to downsize from its protot...
MIKE MCLEOD Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us
PEETA MELLARK We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR It would've been a huge deal.
BRENNAN COAKLEY That's a huge, big deal difference.
FRANK KOUTNIK I don't have egos to deal with. I don't have attitudes. Ten years from now it could be huge. Major L...
BRUCE HURST Our editors awarded Resident Evil 4 with our top honors in December, and it seems our audience could...
GREG KASAVIN This is not yet a pack-and-move order, but rather an instruction to bring back a deal for approval.
ED WATSON For our shelter to have to open its doors - it's a huge liability. You don't realize how small the w...
MAGGIE JONES The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U....
EHUD BARAK There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on havin...
BRYAN ADAMS Think about the relative merit of variable rates versus fixed-rate credit. Locking in a fixed rate n...
FRITZ ELMENDORF Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not sta...
KELLY PRESTON The kids executed. We knew our potential and the kids stepped it up. We have a huge sign in our lock...
JASON KRAUSE It was tremendous getting the win and was a huge lift for our program. Now, we can push ahead.
BRYAN WILLIAMS We have a huge week (this) week. Both of our teams have to win both games.
JASON VENABLE Since I've had kids I haven't read a huge lot of classics. I've been too busy. It now takes me about...
GARY SINISE At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincer...
LIONEL BLUE What we have now is a huge over-supply...you could call it a glut...of total meat in the market.
CHUCK LEVITT The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY It's a huge deal to ordinary families.
BARBARA BECKER It's huge, just huge, and it's been our deal all year. When we get balanced scoring, well anyone's g...
BOB MOTZKO I'm a booster of Terry Collins .
TOMMY LASORDA First, we have to make the playoffs. Any point right now is huge.
JAROMIR JAGR A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER We don't have a lot of guys that have been deep in the postseason. (But) Richard is one of those guy...
BEN BRAUN We continue to believe that Level 3's valuation looks unattractive relative to its peers.
ADAM QUINTON I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it...
BEN HOROWITZ You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction b...
JEFF LINDSAY I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one o...
DICK CHENEY We saw a huge increase in Athens trips after the summer 2004 Olympics in Athens. We are now seeing a...
JAIMEE SHIELD Sister Mary George was very proud to be a Franciscan, and she always prayed that she would have a pe...
SISTER THERESE VAULET Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU One outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book cam...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER It's such a hopeful, almost utopian word, that word "phase." As if any minute, "we" would suffer som...
SARAH VOWELL I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on ...
BRIAN MOLKO We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...
MITCH ALBOM We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening....
MARK EPSTEIN Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, ...
BENITO MUSSOLINI We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be d...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I a...
JOSE RIZAL We absolutely have to give the Debt Management Office the power to deal with the huge change in dema...
ANDREW ROBERTS Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
DEE HOCK Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN That's something they have to deal with. My focus is on our team right now.
ELTON BRAND Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author po...
KYTKA HILMAR-JEZEK I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins...you should be shot i...
ROBERT CLARK I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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FRANCIS COLLINS We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just ac...
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FRANCIS COLLINS I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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FRANCIS COLLINS Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you'...
FRANCIS COLLINS For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you w...
FRANCIS COLLINS It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick...
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FRANCIS COLLINS This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ig...
FRANCIS COLLINS The hopes of the parent of a child with a birth defect, the hopes of a young man with a family histo...
FRANCIS COLLINS Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we...
FRANCIS COLLINS If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in t...
FRANCIS COLLINS I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexit...
FRANCIS COLLINS For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how...
FRANCIS COLLINS To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kin...
FRANCIS COLLINS This is an audacious undertaking.
FRANCIS COLLINS We've learnt fascinating lessons
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FRANCIS COLLINS Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
FRANCIS COLLINS Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's k...
FRANCIS COLLINS It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scien...
FRANCIS COLLINS A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a ni...
FRANCIS COLLINS A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its cons...
FRANCIS COLLINS Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as we...
FRANCIS COLLINS God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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FRANCIS COLLINS I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that a...
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FRANCIS COLLINS Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to ...
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FRANCIS COLLINS As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a prim...
FRANCIS COLLINS We can peek into evolution's lab notebook and see what went on there.
FRANCIS COLLINS FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnor...
FRANCIS COLLINS I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contr...
FRANCIS S. COLLINS If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES