Charles de Foucauld Quotes

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

Charles de Foucauld

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• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
  • Lays

• As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Bad
  • Enjoy
  • Television

• Saving a life overrides territories.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Life
  • Saving
  • Territories

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feelings
  • Move
  • Forward

• We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Confidence

• Consider fully, act decisively.

  

  Kano Jigoro

• Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Children

• When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Stuff

• I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • People
  • Cool
  • Picture

• London has always been open to trade, people, ideas. We have to keep that. I want to compete not just with New York, Paris, Berlin... the ten fastest growing cities in the world are in China. How do we compete with them? We have to attract investment and we have to compete on skills.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • People
  • World
  • Growing

• Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Names

• We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a high-speed railway line between Moscow and Kazan in the Volga region, in central Russia. And then we plan to extend it to Kazakhstan and on to China.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Building
  • Relation
  • Speed

• Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Chaos
  • Modern
  • Instruments

• It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

  

  Charles de Foucauld
  • Humans
  • Teach
  • Conditions