Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
-
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
-
I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
-
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
-
No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
-
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
-
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
-
I never met a stripe I didn't like.
-
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
-
It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
-
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
-
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
-
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
-
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
-
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
-
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
-
As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
-
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
-
I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.
-
When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.
-
This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.
-
I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.
-
What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
-
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
