O Quotes
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“Of course it would never do for a child to live in too just a world; his awakening upon entrance into the world that we grown folks have made for ourselves would be cruelly rude. He must have ample chance to learn how to meet injustice.”
Source: On the Training of Parents - Scholar's Choice Edition
“Of course it's a lot easier for me if I think of myself as a character to say certain things; it gives me a kind of liberty to say things that I otherwise wouldn't. It's always my hope that it will come across as me and not me at the same time.”
“Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.”
“Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness.”
“Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.”
“Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.”
“Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.”
“Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.”
“Of course it's good when you win the Champions League, the league, the golden boot. But when you win something for your country it's completely different.”
“Of course it's nice to be connected, but the nicest thing, I think, is someone you can look in the eye and talk to.”
“Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over form in the history of the essay. I want us to recognize that there's art involved in making this stuff, because we still don't approach the constructed nature of the essay with the same appreciation that we do poetry or fiction.”
“Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.”
“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.”
“Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.”
“Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means - one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration - is difficult.”
“Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.”
“Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.”
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
“Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.”
“Of course I’m going to learn from the greats—Ronnie Lott, Ed Reed, Troy Polamalu. But there’s a lot of unfinished work they didn’t do. I want to be the standard. I want to redefine what it means to be a safety.”
“Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!”
“Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill”
“Of course Jules was alive, they had never faced a challenge whose ass they couldn't kick, and they had the stores of righteous rage that all retail employees collected.”
Source: Finna
“Of course, just about any place was better than home. Home was an off-key roar of disorder and chaos where fathers ran off, mothers turned to booze and boyfriends, and daughters searched out places that felt safe - places that made sense - until they could get out for good.”
Source: The Crimson Corset
“Of course, Kafka doesn't see himself as a sort of party. He doesn't even pretend to be revolutionary, whatever his socialist sympathies may be. He knows that all the lines link him to a literary machine of expression for which he is simultaneously the gears, the mechanic, the operator, and the victim. So how will he proceed in this bachelor machine that doesn't make use of, and can't make use of, social critique? How will he make a revolution?
He will act on the German language such as it is in Czechoslovakia. Since it is a deterritorialized language in many ways, he will push the deterritorialization farther, not through intensities, reversals and thickenings of the language but through a sobriety that makes language take flight on a straight line, anticipates or produces its segmentations. Expression must sweep up content; the same process must happen to form... It is not a politics of pessimism, nor a literary caricature or a form of science fiction.”
Source: Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
“Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.”
“Of course killing Iraqis for Jesus so we can get their oil...”
Source: Shared Sorrows
“Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.”
“Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.”
“Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.”
“Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.”
“Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.”
“Of course life’s a battle. Would you have expected ‘anything’ that would have demanded less than your ‘everything’ so that you’ll never run the risk of being ‘nothing.”
“Of course love is a force in life. People will go on falling in love forever. And more important, sexual infatuation will enrapture everyone. Otherwise, no babies!”
“Of course love is blind; it keeps me blind to myself.”
“Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.”
“Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.”
Source: The Tender Bar: A Memoir
“Of course many things vanish from this world without a moment's warning - prosperity, sanity, umbrellas, love - but not sorrow, never sorrow: sorrow always wears thin its welcome.”
Source: Fat Girl, Terrestrial
“Of course, Mao made his mistakes, because everybody does, but at least he allowed working people to smoke, even in the most trying circumstances, such as when, for one reason or another, they found themselves up before the firing squad.”
“Of course marriage isn't the solution to all life's ills. It can bring boatfuls of ills, if one is unlucky - think how unhappy people can be, yoked together.”
Source: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
“Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are an essential part of one's personality.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Of course Mary Jane and Sam were there with Nugget, Cha Cha's golden retriever mix we rescued from a disgusting pen at a house out in Pasadena. Eileen and Harry Silvers came with their poodle, Zizi, and Venus with her Yorkshire, Macho. Lester and his wife, Bambi, brought Grindel, a beagle mix they adopted from the shelter. And with one of Rosemary's friend's corgi, and a shepherd mix, and a spaniel, plus Sugar and Spice, we had nine dogs in all. What we didn't have were any children since I'd made it clear to everyone that things would probably be hectic enough without a bunch of screaming kids fooling with the dogs and demanding attention.”
Source: Hungry for Happiness
“Of course, Mary Magdalene would have very little tolerance for the Christian platitudes and vapid optimism that seem to swirl around these kinds of tragic events. Those platitudes are tempting, but they're nothing but luxuries for people who've never had demons (or at least have never admitted to them). But equally, she would reject nihilism, or the idea that there is no real meaning in life or death - ideas present in so much of postmodernity. Those ideas, too, are luxuries, but they are for those who have never been freed from demons.”
Source: Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
“Of course Mason and Logan followed me where I went.”
Source: Fallen Crest Public
“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the curse. It’s God’s punishment.’
‘For what?’
‘Giving Adam the apple, I suppose.’
‘He didn’t have to eat it.’
‘Yes he did. If someone offers you food, it’s only manners to take it. Why are you always so argumentative?”
Source: Praxis
“Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.”
Source: The Black Prince