Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

Flannery O'Connor

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• You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • Different
  • Oil

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Snow
  • Nasty
  • Horses

• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

• If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

  

  Sally Field
  • Forever
  • Back
  • Been

• We did not receive cooperation from various departments, but still we are able to provide the tablet to the people.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People

• Sed neque tam facilis res ulla est, quin ea primumdifficilis magis ad credendum constet, itemquenil adeo magnum neque tam mirabile quicquam,quod non paulatim minuant mirarier omnes.

  

  Lucretius

• Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Comforting

• Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Power

• The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

  

  Martha Beck
  • May
  • Fear

• In order to ensure long-term investment, it is important to make infrastructure as transparent and as bankable as possible - should be a win-win for all.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Important
  • Long

• The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

  

  Marian McPartland
  • House
  • Space
  • Kitchen

• I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let's say, I was with X-Men.

  

  James Wan
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Real
  • Football
  • Identity

• No one knows what he can do until he tries.

  

  Publilius Syrus

• Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains

  

  David Hume

• The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

  

  James Chanos

• If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Symbol
  • With

• Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Death
  • Symbol
  • Elvis Presley's

• Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.

  

  Ambalal Dahyabhai Patel
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Water

• Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Mother
  • Wise
  • Grandmother

• They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • Hot

• I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • God
  • Religion
  • Idea

• Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Symbol