Carson McCullers Quotes

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Carson McCullers

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• Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Alien
  • Intolerance
  • Hinduism

• We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• The world and life are one. (5.621)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life
  • World

• The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Work
  • God
  • Together

• I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I don't believe in making fashion difficult.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Believe
  • Fashion

• My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time

• Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • High
  • Football
  • Hurt

• In a nation growing increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that the organizations tasked with keeping us informed reflect the same diversity.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Growing
  • Diversity

• Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • World
  • War
  • Amazing

• I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Remember

• The 4th Concept is welcomed and encouraged. In the end, it's my hope and belief that the best ideas are what will be used in these detectors.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Hope

• If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy

• At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Reading
  • Courage

• But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

  

  David Hockney
  • Time
  • Long
  • Photography

• Virtual environments are anonymous, and I'm concerned that people - mainly younger folks who grow up this way - will see social relationships as part of a game.

  

  Masi Oka
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Trust
  • Go For It

• Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

  

  Martin Van Creveld
  • Military
  • Doubt

• If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Political
  • Action
  • Car

• There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.

  

  Dennis Merzel
  • Joy
  • Present
  • Realize

• The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

  

  Potter Stewart
  • People

• The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

  

  Carson McCullers