Chiara Lubich Quotes

Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.

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• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Thinking
  • Rock
  • Finish

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • True

• She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

  

  Alan Guth
  • Free
  • Universe

• When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Fight
  • Challenges
  • Tough

• There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.

  

  Jennifer Doudna
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Technology

• Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

  

  James Frain
  • Time
  • Different
  • Character

• I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Up
  • Great
  • Chicago

• When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • World
  • Poverty

• It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

  

  Edward Norton
  • People

• Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • People

• If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.

  

  John Elway
  • Different
  • Animal

• It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

  

  Elliott Smith
  • Up
  • Drug

• But, braggart demons, we postpone our end: how could we renounce the display of our freedom, the show of our pride?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Freedom
  • Pride

• We might have a chance now to rebuild it all with what we have left. We might have learned that we can exist only as a part of nature, not apart from nature.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Nature

• Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Talking
  • Nobody

• The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Plenty
  • Knock
  • Don't Need

• I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Up
  • Age

• I get shitty scared. One show in Amsterdam, I was so nervous I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile-vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

  

  Adele
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Fire

• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • True

• Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.

  

  Chiara Lubich
  • Fire
  • Doe
  • Grows