Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
-
The highest state is laughter.
-
Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
-
Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
-
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
-
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
-
The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.
-
I am a supporter of the state of Israel.
-
They need a new community on higher ground.
-
This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
-
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
-
I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
-
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
-
The state of the world terrifies me. It feels more powerful personally to fight it through larger actions as opposed to trying to fight the Trump administration itself. It's sort of self-preservation for my mental health. If I spend too much of my energy and my brain on Trump, I'd lose my mind.
-
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
-
I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure… and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.
-
The Church is the merciless heart of the State.
-
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
-
In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.
-
When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
-
[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
-
If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups
-
The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.
-
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
