Chiavaroli Obituary Quotes & Sayings

middle of the 12th century, Gratian composed a legal synthesis entitled Concordantia discordantium canonum [Concordance of Conflicting Canons]. It is better known as the Decretum. This work, considered as a corpus iuris canonici (a code containing the then-effective ecclesiastical laws), became a model for later jurists who added to it. — Stephen F. Brown

Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord. — Pope Francis

The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers. — Elizabeth Wein

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can't use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have. — Maya Angelou

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing. — Mia Farrow

For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline. — Louis Menand

You rolled me once, you rolled me twice and the third time, you had taught to win the game. — Auliq Ice

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. — Eliot Spitzer

Creative professionals know the importance of quantitative goals and how they can lead to qualitative results. — Josh Tyler

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves. — Carlo Dossi

Anger and shame laced with loneliness spread throughout her, heating her to the core. Self-pity wasn't something Bess would normally succumb to, but things in the past few months had fallen apart, and there was no one there to help pick up the pieces. — Inger Iversen

the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, — Alexander Hamilton