Rebecca K. O'Connor
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10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... KYRSTEN SINEMA We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'H... RACHEL JOYCE DAVID MCRANEY We are going to fight this thing all the way. The district is breaking the law and it's breaking its... GARY LARSON MORGAN FREEMAN I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of... DAMON LINDELOF TED TURNER To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN I think why people relate to 'Star Wars' is George Lucas is so brilliant at telling these st... DAVE FILONI The hemorrhages in vitamin K deficiency develop in this way that minute vascular lesions caused by m... HENRIK DAM DAVID LEVITHAN GRAHAM GREENE Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief t... MARTIN SELIGAN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER They break down everything, ... They go over the nuances, little things: Why are we playing this def... CHRIS HOVAN You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always ... REBECCA K. O'CONNOR One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that ... BYRON HOWARD DALAI LAMA I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation... SINEAD O'CONNOR Even though we're in the media, we don't believe this is an instance where we are at a forum to try ... DAVID GILES DAVID FOSTER WALLACE PETER THIEL EMANUEL SWEDENBORG RAND PAUL SAUL ALINSKY Believe in yourself, believe that everything is possible in life, don't be scared to do what you lov... CAROLINE IDIAGHE J.R. WARD MICHAEL GRANT DAVID SEDARIS I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what y... RACHEL PLATTEN I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love m... C.J. ROBERTS One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise peo... PILOU ASBAEK We believe his inclusion in this case is completely unwarranted. He intends to fight this. LEONARD SHARENOW But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the... VANESSA KERRY C. JOYBELL C. ARTHUR MILLER JODI PICOULT Mankind has a mandate to care for the earth and all that is within it, especially the animals, and a... TARA POLLARD CRAIG GROESCHEL This immigration system is broken. It's an emergency situation. That's why we're going to Washington... FREDDY PERALTA You cannot become enlightened if you want it, for wanting it is a desire, this is why it is so diffi... CASEY BRYANT MOTHER ANGELICA PAUL HARVEY One of the reasons people and animals share such a close relationship is that people have always lea... ARI BERK & CAROLYN DUNN CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter? DUKE OF ALBA FERDINAND ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you a... VICTOR GARBER I remember Des O?Connor when he was white. BERNARD MANNING Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K. J. P. MCEVOY PHIL KLAY GERMANY KENT MILEY CYRUS ELVIS COSTELLO These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don'... TIPPI HEDREN RICK RIORDAN YAMI GAUTAM KIM CATTRALL MARY LAMBERT KARIN SLAUGHTER ZOOEY DESCHANEL I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's univer... ALICIA KEYS What we found is that predators are using stimulus generalization, which is a really old psychology ... CATHERINE DARST DEYTH BANGER Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of... FLOYD SKLOOT For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of
things in the sea, is tamed, and ha... BIBLE ERIK PEVERNAGIE KIRAN DESAI In poverty, people are possessions. In the middle class, possessions means things, JODY WILLIAMS
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You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always ... REBECCA K. O'CONNOR I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whol... FRANK O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu... KERRIE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w... JOSEPH O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is beyond logic that we see the light. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will ... SINEAD O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would hav... BARBARA O'CONNOR When it comes to happiness, why would anyone want to delay it? JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR In a world full of oddities, it’s how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormal... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Having an emotional connection with what we wear is at once transformative and talismanic. Why else ... ANNMARIE O'CONNOR I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a ... ANNMARIE O'CONNOR Excuses – the great enabler. Without them, we'd have no reason to shop when we shouldn't and every... ANNMARIE O'CONNOR You know the old adage: give a woman a bag and she'll fill it for a day. Teach a woman to pack and s... ANNMARIE O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR But my dear young lady," he said offering a cigarette, "who ever said I have a poor opinion of women... 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I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why ... 
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological m... 
When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... 
It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,'... 
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we belie... 
Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn’t matter because things never change, or pol... 
'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coa... 
My most treasured possessions are not things, they are only things, my friends, family and animals a... 
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief t... 
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... 
Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is b... 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. 
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. 
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th... 
I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the l... 
The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness. 
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predes... 
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. 
An unarticulated crush is very different from an unrequited one, because at least with an unrequited... 
Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy? 
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief t... 
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very z... 
It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo... 
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial in... 
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in r... 
Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Pa... 
As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we ac... 
Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.
Why are we doing this?" Caine asked him. "You know damned well why we're doing this. Because it's a ... 
No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. 
Freedom is a place, an area. It's a higher place. There are some other people that are here, and thi... 
It is a lie. 
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern l... 
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because governme... 
We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can... 
Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do... 
At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough. 
If you believe in yourself anything is possible. 
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific... 
This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals 
There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are workin... 
You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to B... 
There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at fou... 
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmit... 
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends ... 
Life is a desire! 
When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... 
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. 
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... 
In yourself right now is all the place you've got. 
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. 
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns ... 