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
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
Ian McShane
When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
Rabih Alameddine
As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
Natalie Zea
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.
Samuel Butler
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
When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?
Joey Tempest
Europe
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.
Ben Mendelsohn
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
Jesmyn Ward
After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.
Leon Black
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
