O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.”
“Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.”
“Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.”
“Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.”
“Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.”
“Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.”
“Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.”
“Of course, you’d warm up faster if you took your clothes off.”
Source: Eclipse
“Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.”
“Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.”
“Of course. I loved it so much it made me want to spit on you!!”
“Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.”
“Of course. My sadness has become a routine that no one notices anymore.”
Source: Adultery: A novel
“Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.”
Source: Artemis Fowl:
“Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”
“Of course. You get everything from books.”
“Of course.” She fluffed her hair. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m very high maintenance.” “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.” “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It’s golden.” With barely a breath, she added, “Now let’s find out if we’re compatible, shall we?”
Source: The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts
“Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.”
Source: Unveiled
“Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.”
“Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.”
Source: Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work
“Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
“Of David's relations, the greatest influence on him was Lord Hugh, known as Linky. From him, David learnt three things. 'I learnt always to think and not to talk sloppily, to use the best words you can, and I think most important, I learnt not to have package-deal opinions.' He went on to describe a package-deal opinion as 'you think one thing and then you think something else as the same kind of people think.”
“Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins”
Source: Sacred Poems
“Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.”
Source: An autobiography
“Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papers
“Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.”
“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”
“Of en hoe een samenleving op de onmiddellijke dreiging van een catastrofe reageert, is afhankelijk van haar culturele waarden en hoe deze tot uiting komen in haar sociaal-economische structuur – denk maar aan de topzware structuur en politieke leiding van het Romeinse Rijk. We hebben op dit momet zelfs met een zeer pregnant voorbeeld daarvan te maken: voor het eerst in de geschiedenis zijn onze wetenschappelijke methoden geavanceerd genoeg om de dreiging van een wereldwijde, door de mens veroorzaakte klimaatverandering te voorspellen, maar ons onvermogen (of onze onwil) om deze kennis in te zetten om de klimaatverandering te bestrijden is grotendeels het gevolg van politieke besluitvorming, of het gebrek daaraan.”
Source: Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Of every four words I write, I strike out three.”
“Of every moment I've ever not-lived through, this one is the best”
“Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.”
Source: Monologues and lyrics
“Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.”
“Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.”
“Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.”
“Of everything
I have ever endured,
Y
O
U
are
My Favourite Tragedy.”
Source: Divine Trouble
“Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.”
“Of everything I thought he might say, it was not this. I can only stare at him in disbelief. Then I start to laugh and the whispers join me. You really must be going mad.
Something about Raffaele’s expression finally makes my laughter subside. “You’re serious,” I say, tilting my head in a mock imitation of his familiar gesture. “You must be desperate to think that I would work with you and the Daggers.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“Of everything I've ever been called, Quinlan, your mate will be the one I truly cherish.”
Source: House of Sky and Breath
“Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.”
“Of everything you could be and everything you do, the greatest thing of all, Henri, is simply to be you.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“Of evils one should choose the least.
[Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]”
“Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc
“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”
“Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.”
Source: Yarrow Revisited,: And Other Poems
“Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.”
“Of God are ye in Christ. It is not as if God placed and planted us in Christ, and left it to us now to maintain the union. No, God is the Eternal One, the God of the everlasting life, who works every moment in a power that does not for one moment cease. What God gives, He continues with a never-ceasing giving. It is He who by the Holy Spirit makes this life in Christ a blessed reality in our consciousness.”
Source: Holy in Christ: A devotional look at your life
“Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.”
“Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”
Source: Credo