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 American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Family
  • American
  • Fear

• 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

• A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he

  

  Umar
  • Men
  • Children
  • Wife

• My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.

  

  Christine Ebersole
  • Great
  • Father
  • Soul

• My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Children
  • She
  • Mother

• I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • People
  • Past
  • City

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

  

  Chiara Lubich
  • Fire
  • Doe
  • Grows