Flannery O'Connor Quotes

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

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• Psychiatry causes so much death.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Death
  • Causes
  • Psychiatry

• What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Funny
  • Responsible
  • Who Am I

• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Girl

• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Independent

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Impossible
  • Selling

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Career
  • Never

• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Children
  • Lost

• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Years
  • Broken
  • Presidential

• You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • History

• You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Long
  • Always
  • Successful

• The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Movie
  • Best
  • Rave

• I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Independent

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Morality
  • States

• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Play
  • Year

• I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Men
  • Job
  • Truth

• Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Fun

• Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

  

  Michael E. Mann
  • Mean
  • Cancer
  • Rain

• The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Bubble

• I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • World
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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