Charles J. Chaput Quotes

We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.

Charles J. Chaput

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• I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Money
  • American

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  

  Xavi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Football

• We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Challenge
  • Doing

• Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Solution

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Genius

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Defeat
  • Wants
  • Defending

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Character
  • Grow

• I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Logic

• I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Evolution

• If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Animals
  • Relatives

• I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Community
  • Duty
  • Property

• When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • Friends
  • Die

• I've come to see the American Dream for what it really is: a lie my parents had little choice but to buy into and sell to me, a lie that conflated working hard with passing for, becoming, and being white.

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Dream
  • Choice
  • Buy

• You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • War

• We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.

  

  Charles J. Chaput
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Culture