Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Flannery O'Connor

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• In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Son

• I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Politics

• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Law
  • Desire

• To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Career
  • Day
  • End

• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Travel
  • Where
  • Somewhere

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Thoughts
  • Well

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
  • Power
  • Revolution

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Life
  • Me
  • Army

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
  • Rich

• If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Why
  • Boss
  • Late

• Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.

  

  Karl Marx

• The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Author
  • Warfare
  • Proved

• There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Attention
  • Fashion
  • Model

• In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.

  

  William Beebe
  • Attention
  • Water
  • Eye

• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Compassion

• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Staring