#ric

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#days #doing #going #took #trick

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#carry #feeling #lonely #nothing #price

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#beyond #borders #country #courts #historically

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#around #comparison #court #nations #occupies

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#certain #certain way #exploited #export #historical

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation. ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#asking #because #becoming #before #defend

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it? ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#america #ask #attack #backgrounds #distort

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#america #children #gay #i #i am

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ↗

— John O'Hara

#barbarism #being #civilization #country #decadence