O Quotes
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“OF COURSE WOMEN DO NOT WORK AS HARD AS MEN.
THEY GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME”
“Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see but to be seen, not for their own experience but for that of a male audience, which means that they are asking for whatever attention they receive.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Of course ya love me. I'm very loveable.”
Source: Spellbound
“Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“Of course you and I are good,” she says, and then with a wicked smile that could only come from a daughter who belongs to me, she turns to Jed.
“Are you my new daddy?”
There’s groaning, there’s laughter, and then finally Jed has to interrupt and square my shoulders with the stage.
“Now for the real surprise,” he says in my ear, giving me a squeeze.
I can’t imagine what he’s got planned, but then my brain, my mind, my soul, my spirit and the air in my lungs go bye-bye, because on the stage—somehow on my little rinky-dink stage in my teeny little artist colony town—is…her.
“Um, that’s…no way. No. Way.”
Jed laughs and hugs me from behind. Way.”
I open my mouth to make a sound but nothing comes out.”
Source: Her Hi-Fi Hunk
“Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What other country can throw away money sending its people to live with savages?”
Source: Whiteman
“Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.”
“Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And then we were very disposable - right, Plutarch?”
Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)
“Of course you are. Then you're going to give me multiple orgasms and pay off my mortgage too. I saw this movie, pal. It was in the fantasy section. (Isa)”
“Of course you aren't scared of me. I'm not the wolf. You are.”
Source: The Bad Ones
“Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won.”
“Of course you can, Ah-Yan. You are more powerful than you think.” Seeing the knife mark in her palm, Shi Ying’s consistent stern tone showed approval for the first time: “Be confident in yourself. Remember: as long as you are willing, you will always be able to do it, and you will always be in time!”
Being so praised for the first time in so many years, Zhu Yan couldn’t help being stunned.”
Source: Zhuyan (With Prequel of Mirror) 朱颜
“Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.”
“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate”
“Of course you can go on. It's what we do. We go on. Learn how to live with the suffering we're dealt.”
Source: The Distant Marvels
“Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.”
“Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.”
Source: V for Vendetta
“Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance the relationship between the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority in America and the negroes. What is important here is that the negroes were the descendants from slaves and were excluded from power, while the white majority kept them at bay, kept them down, kept them where they are. If the negroes in the future became assimilated and acquired equal power access, if there were a black president, then many of these things would change.”
“Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.”
“Of course, you can thrive. You have to live an authentic life. Be completely honest about who you are, and do not imitate anyone.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Of course, you can thrive. You have to live an authentic life. Do not imitate anyone, and be completely honest about who you are.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.”
Source: When Did You See Her Last?
“Of course you can't feel sexy and beautiful every day. But we try our best.”
“Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.”
“Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.”
Source: Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)
“Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.”
“Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect, it must be properly introduced.”
Source: 333 Wittiest Quotable Quotes
“Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.”
“Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“Of course, you could live without asking questions, just live the way life comes, float with the current, but, I'm crazy that way: I must know why and wherefore, dig down to the truth myself. That's why I'm a man.”
Source: Farewell to Matyora
“Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.”
Source: The Beauty of Darkness
“Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.”
Source: Magic Study
“Of course you don't get it," he said. "You and Yaya, you've always felt trapped here. But I don't want to graduate." He rolled a banana against the table with his palm. "I've spent my whole life reading beautiful books and watching beautiful movies, dreaming that there was some real place out there where I would fit in and be beautiful, too. And now I'm here. And I don't to leave. I don't want to get an ugly job in an ugly office full of shit like staplers and fax machines. I don't want to write memos. I don't want us all to move far away from each other and grow up and forget to call. I don't to get fat. I don't want to be tired. I don't know. I just...sometimes I can't imagine anything good happening to me. After Catherine.”
“Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.”
Source: People of the Book
“Of course you don't know it, it's called learning. If you already knew it, it would be called review.”
“Of course you don't know yourself, lucky old you. I just know myself too bloody well.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Of course you don’t trust Braith. You don’t trust anybody,” Ghleanna reminded their brother. “You don’t trust the air.”
“Because it tends to become unseasonably chilly when I’d prefer it to be warm. It’s as if it does it on purpose.”
Source: A Tale of Two Dragons
“Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?”
“Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.”
“Of course you don't want anybody to feel shame for their sexuality. But you also want to make it clear that a loud, a loud and proud approach to your sexuality at a young age isn't necessary to be a fully integrated person.”
“Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?”
“Of course you had a choice, Riden. You just had a hard one. And you chose the easy option, which was to do nothing.”
Source: Daughter of the Pirate King
“Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?”
“Of course you have an e-mail, you idiot, just read it!”
“Of course, you have another year at college yet,' Jay Cee went on a little more mildly. 'What do you have in mind after you graduate?'
What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue.
'I don't really know,' I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.
It sounded true, and I recognized it, the way you recognize some nondescript person that's been hanging around your door for ages and then suddenly comes up and introduces himself as your real father and looks exactly like you, so you know he really is your father, and the person you thought all your life was your father is a sham.
'I don't really know.”
“Of course, you have another year at college yet,' Jay Cee went on a little more mildly. 'What do you have in mind after you graduate?'
What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue.
'I don't really know,' I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.
It sounded true, and I recognized it, the way you recognize some nondescript person that's been hanging around your door for ages and then suddenly comes up and introduces himself as your real father and looks exactly like you, so you know he really is your father, and the person you thought all your life was your father is a sham.
'I really don't know.”
Source: the bell jar
“Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren't expecting to go down is a part of the thrill.”
“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.”
“Of course you have passions and talents. Of course you have some purpose in the world. Your emotions are guiding you towards it. Each time you discover something that you like or something that you hate, you discover yourself. Everyone can do this. If you didn't like some things more than others, you'd be living in a sewer eating grass. More often than not, it's those things you think are too weird, too personal, or too imperfect that you must share. The world does not await your perfection. It awaits your courage and your honesty. Let yourself be seen.”
“Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.”