Flannery O'Connor Quotes
It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
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I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
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In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.
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For a person who is very much involved with the institution of religion but has lost the religious spirit, the 'religion' label is the real threat to liberty.
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After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
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The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
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It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.