"...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Old Lady Quotes

“Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.”
“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”

Source : "Anything That's Peaceful". Book by Leonard Read, 1964.
“No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.”
“God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life”

Source : "Song: 'Two-Headed Boy Part Two'". 1998.
“I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.”
“Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the president of the United States; it is not Hitler; it is not Mussolini; it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself.”

Source : Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”
“To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.”
“Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.”

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