Flannery O'Connor Quotes

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

Flannery O'Connor

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  

  Tacitus
  • Woman
  • Chastity

• The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Never
  • Will
  • Become

• People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Truth
  • Wonder

• Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Same
  • Will
  • Intellect

• A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Truth
  • True

• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Truth
  • Always

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • President
  • Will
  • Accept

• I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Stop
  • Will
  • I Can

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Always
  • Will

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Truth Is

• My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Real
  • Truth

• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Want
  • Will
  • Opinions

• The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Literature

• When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

  

  Anita Hill

• I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Goals

• Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand,Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land?Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet ’tis Truth alone is strong,And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • People
  • She
  • Truth

• It's coming home to finish what I started. I left coaching, but I've never left the game of football. When the job opened up, I wanted to try to be a part of it, because I felt my organization, my football team, needed me.

  

  Art Shell
  • Up
  • Home
  • Job

• You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Will
  • Odd