Flannery By Brad Gooch Quotes & Sayings

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. — Augustus Hare

The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side. A sense of the dramatic, of the tragic, of the infinite, has descended upon us, filling us with grief, but even above grief, wonder. Our plans were so beautifully laid out, ready to be carried to action, but with magnificent certainty God laid them aside and said, "You have forgotten - Mine?"
A meditation on her fathers death. — Flannery O'Connor

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues. — Asghar Farhadi

Vodka tonic with lemon. — Tracy Brogan

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. — Louise Gluck

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it. — Niels Bohr

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. — Joseph Priestley

I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns. — Howard Metzenbaum

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross. — Pamela Anderson

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. — Virginia Woolf

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing
and I smile. — Shel Silverstein

But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands. — Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Her most unusual assignation was a quick visit with Fred Darsey, a young man recently escaped from Milledgeville State Hospital, where he was committed by his parents during a troubled adolescence. Darsey first caught her interest with a blind letter, in March, from the mental institution, revealing his passion for bird-watching. She was startled when her reply was returned and the envelope marked "eloped." She sympathized, when Darsey wrote her again from New York City, "When you have a friend there you feel as if you are there yourself, so you see I feel as if I have escaped too." Carver helped arrange the date, which Flannery kept secret from Regina, in Bryant Park, at the rear of the New York Public Library, with the pen pal she had never met. "I just love to sit and look at the people in New York, or anywhere," she told him, "even in Milledgeville." Flannery wound up her trip north spending the — Brad Gooch

All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't care, or they wouldn't hear, or they would take too much from me once they knew. — Patricia Gaffney

Every prayer victory makes it easier to believe the next time. — Lori Hatcher

The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Because part of me does want to trick you. Part of me wants to say whatever I have to say to make sure you'll still want me. I want to tell you that it'll be different - better. That I'll be more sensitive, that I'll compromise more. But I won't be, Neal, I know I won't be. And I don't want to trick you. Nothing is ever going to change. — Rainbow Rowell