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

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• For the first time in sixty years, the priests, the old aristocracy and the people met in a common sentiment-a feeling of revenge, it is true, and not of affection ; but even that is a great thing in politics, where a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.

  

  Paulo Costanzo
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Here he comes, moving among the enemies all on his own. Do you see? He acts alone, but he is not alone. He has an army behind him, also, my army; and with our lives we will fight to defend him.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Fight
  • Army
  • Enemies

• Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Fire

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

  

  Chiara Lubich
  • Fire
  • Doe
  • Grows