Francis of Assisi Quotes

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: saint
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: 1182 - 1226

Topics

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Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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You can't ever go back; life is incredibly short and fragile.

Michael Arden

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In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

Tommy Hilfiger

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Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.

Rita Rudner

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I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.

Jason Kidd

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I found that, academically, it really didn't matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn't matter too much what schools I wanted to attend... What matters is one's drive, one's intelligence.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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In India, public display of affection is frowned upon.

Divyanka Tripathi

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I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

Diablo Cody

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In '82 and '83, that was the rise of the VCR. Every Friday, my brother and I would go to Crazy Eddie's - which was a video store in Manhattan - and rent five horror movies. And that's basically what we did, basically, for three years. Becoming social misfits.

Colson Whitehead

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I think that an actor who is working should be a happy actor.

Brian Dietzen

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Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.

Chuck Berry

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