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Andrew O'Hagan Quotes

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1968

Topics

Age Children World Believe Human

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

Michael Ignatieff

Financial Soldiers Real Cost Only

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

Simple Me Mission Goal Guilty True

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

Amitabh Bachchan

Fear Saying Think You Audience

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

Sun America Eclipse British Visible

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

Desert Out Gardens Devout Laid

Christians are commanded to pray in the name of Jesus. It is not a practice reserved just for personal prayers, or prayers rendered in church.

Practice Name Church Personal Pray

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.

Flower Character Flowers Earth Bloom

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

Time Thought Mystery Write Bored

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Wynton Marsalis

Change View You Point Of View Create

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action - faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Success God World Action Thought

I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.

Seth MacFarlane

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.

Universe Table Say Infinite Beyond

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