Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.
Flannery O'Connor
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
Harbhajan Singh
For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Ian McShane
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
Vidya Balan
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
Patrick Lencioni
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Ian Gillan
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Louis Leterrier
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I definitely want to do music for the rest of my life. So I just want to make sure that I'm doing music in the way that I feel is the way I need to.
David Archuleta
I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.
Flannery O'Connor
