Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
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When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf.
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At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
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Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.
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Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
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At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.
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I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.
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Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
