Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
Rajiv Ouseph -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Sam Brownback -
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
Edgardo Osorio -
It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
Naomi Wolf -
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
Rahm Emanuel -
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne -
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul -
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt -
As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
Venus Williams -
I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
Victoria Justice -
Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
Samira Wiley -
It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
Olly Murs -
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
AJ McLean
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It's time for men to be held accountable when they make women feel uncomfortable or do things out of line.
Logan Browning -
Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.
Marshall McLuhan -
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
Amy Bloom -
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
Jane Fonda -
The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.
Olive Wyon -
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
Flannery O'Connor