Blase J. Cupich Quotes

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

Blase J. Cupich

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• The army is the true nobility of our country.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Country
  • True
  • Army

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Mind
  • History

• And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friends
  • You
  • Seen

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Plan

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Listening

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Internet
  • Champion
  • Senate

• If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • House
  • Earth
  • Words

• I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Education

• Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

  

  Peter Welch
  • People
  • Help
  • Night

• Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Death
  • Fly

• Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Death
  • Taken
  • Communism

• When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Life
  • Death
  • Assumption