Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

Flannery O'Connor

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• I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.

  

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
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• If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

  

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• I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

  

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• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
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• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  

  Ovid
  • Death
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• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
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• By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
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  • Money
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• For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.

  

  Kage Baker
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• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

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• No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
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• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

  

  Sampha
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• I will always find my light. No question. And if I don't, I'll know, because my dad will be the first person to call me and say, like, 'You need to have him bring another 2K in,' and 'Why aren't you using this sort of lighting gel?' The crew guys know that it's where I grew up.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Up
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  • Light

• We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Analysis

• If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • See
  • Horse
  • Paint

• Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

  

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos
  • Light
  • Blind
  • Wickedness

• Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Light
  • See
  • Beliefs