"Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Integrity Quotes #Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes

“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.”
“I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.”
“People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests”
“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.”
“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.”

Source : William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136
“The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2013). “Levitating Las Vegas”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.”
“Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.”

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