Carroll O'Connor (John Carroll O'Connor) Quotes

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Carroll O'Connor

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Taken

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Like

• I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Want
  • Me
  • Angry

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • School
  • Watching
  • Calling

• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • People
  • True
  • Guilt

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Great

• My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Respect

• It is very important to be humble but to maintain the conviction that we can do something good.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Good
  • Important
  • Humble

• Be friends with everybody. When you have friends, you will know there is somebody who will stand by you.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Friends

• If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Humans
  • Giraffes
  • Hydrogen gas

• What fascinates me about Duchamp is the idea of tearing down the wall between the art object and reality.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Wall

• Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Power

• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Real
  • Heart

• Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Heart