Francis Marion famous quotes

07-18-2025

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
-- Francis Marion

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A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.
-- Francis Marion

#Night #Hair #Wind
What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ...
-- Francis Marion

#Life #Patterns #Strange
Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?
-- Francis Marion

#Doe #Faces #Pretense
Who can doubt that God created us to be happy, and thereto made us to love one another? It is plainly written as Gospel. The heart is sometimes so embittered that nothing but Divine love can sweeten it, so enraged that devotion can only becalm it, and so broken down that it takes all the forces of heavenly hope to raise it. In short, the religion of Jesus Christ is the only sure and controlling power over sin.
-- Francis Marion

#Jesus #Heart #Broken

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

Francis Marion famous quotes

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