#over

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#best #despair #discoverers #domesticated #happily

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#am #book #controversial #i #i am

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#bad #bad manners #because #better #condition

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, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#book #business #few #god #hands

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#constitution #control #democratic #democratic society #each

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#any #clause #community #establishment #government

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#barney #bottle #down #drunk #forcefully

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#believes #built #church #conquered #death

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#churches #emotional #government #intervene #kind

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#conceivable #controls #covert #impose #irresistible