Francis Spufford Quotes

For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

Francis Spufford

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FaithTruthHeartStruggleChristian

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Joan Blades

ResponsibilitySupportYouValues

I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.

Jennifer Aniston

MenCreateFragranceSomethingWould

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

AgeThingsSchizophreniaModerate

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Andrew Motion

HistoryTimePoetryPeopleReading

Love is the bond of perfection.

John Winthrop

LovePerfectionLove IsBond

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

Sibel Edmonds

FebruarySaidOutsidePointBecause

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Tori Amos

CreativeTryingYouPersonRoomOwn

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Martin Scorsese

AmericanMoreUpSideItalianEast

At HSN, the experience we create are a significant point of differentiation.

Mindy Grossman

ExperienceCreatePointSignificant

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

Jon Bon Jovi

WorkParentsMeetPrivilegeClass

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Diogenes

FreedomI AmWorldCitizenAmGreek

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

Aubrie Sellers

MusicPeopleKindTherapyWrite

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