Flannery O'Connor Quotes
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.Flannery O'Connor
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
Gary Locke -
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
Florence Henderson -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum -
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
Naveen Jain
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
Naomi Klein -
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Daniel Barenboim -
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda -
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
Victor Cruz -
I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
Victoria Pendleton -
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
Nancy O'Dell
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
Dana Perino -
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
Orlando Bloom -
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
Jackie Cooper -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
Daniel Cormier -
Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
Naveen Andrews
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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
Rachel McAdams -
I love opening night, and I love doing plays. But one of my favorite parts about doing a play or working on a new play is rehearsal.
Betsy Brandt -
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Eric Reed Boucher -
I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
Jason Isaacs -
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.
Flannery O'Connor