Franciis Quotes & Sayings

Anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense — Kate Atkinson

It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not. — Dominique Moceanu

I had always known in my heart that the experience would never leave me, that it was now woven into my very fibers, an inextricable part of my past, but I had hoped never to have to recollect it, consciously, and in full, ever again. Like an old wound, it gave off a faint twinge now and again, but less and less often, less and less painfully, as the years went on and my happiness, sanity and equilibrium were assured. Of late, it had been like the outermost ripple on a pool, merely the faint memory of a memory. — Susan Hill

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through. — Richard Armour

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart. — John G. Shedd

When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were. — Justin Hayward

Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone ... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness. — Geneva Overholser

Look at things ... as they can be. — David Joseph Schwartz

be letting a pretty girl out of — Sarah McCulloch

In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm. — Eban Goodstein

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live. — Erik Erikson

I'm not gay, a lotta people think I'm gay. I have a girlfriend. She thinks I'm gay. — Tom DeLonge