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May Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of…
- I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,…
- When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,…
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to…
- It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells…
- I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent…
- I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as…
- There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that…
- [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.…
- When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another,…
- I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I…
- St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour…
- The life you save may very well be your own.
- The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh