O Quotes
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“Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.”
“Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.”
Source: Word Painting
“Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.”
Source: The Children of Men
“Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.”
Source: Notebooks
“Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.”
“Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.”
Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
“Of the future prospects of an illiterate society flush with weapons and drugs and rife with the divisions the Soviet occupation had suppressed...Afghanistan's tribal past, its uncertain future, with decades of war still to come. The oft-named graveyard of empires, with many of its dead yet to be counted.”
Source: The Language of Secrets
“Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.”
“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.”
“Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.”
“Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.”
Source: History of Greece
“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by it’s own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.”
Source: The Prophet
“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.”
“Of the Gymnasium class of 1939, half had died. Not one was yet 18.”
Source: A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika
“of the heart saying
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it's not as if such fastenings could ever contain
the regular yearning wing-beat of my evenings”
Source: Falling Awake
“Of the historic fault lines in Swiss society, the religious one is the least obvious today, mainly because it's the least clear-cut. There are French-speaking Protestants and German-speaking Catholics, and vice versa. [...] For most Swiss people, where you live, how you vote and what you speak are all more important. Having helped create the Switzerland of today, Christianity has moved from conflict to consensus. A Catholic nun walking through Bern as the Protestant cathedral's bells ring would have once been unthinkable; today it's normal. [... It's] a moment to cherish [...] because it shows what a society can achieve if it tries.”
Source: Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island
“Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous. . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fake, it is a moment that I choose to erupt the story, but I make it as smooth as I can. What enables me to do it is the skill of filmmaking.”
“Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.”
“Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.”
Source: Rural Hours
“Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.”
“Of the intellectual leaders of the Reformation, Luther. the narrowest mind among them, survived, while the more important intellects, Hutten, Münzer, Wendel Hipler perished. Behind Luther stood the power which was economically the most important - the princes.”
Source: Die Lessing-Legende
“Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Of the known fungi species, of which there are tens of thousands, only about 3% are known to be poisonous. Within that, there are varying degrees of likely harm. Some will upset your tummy; others will liquify your liver.”
Source: Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide
“Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's
“Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.”
Source: Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica
“Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.”
“Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.”
“Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.”
“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.”
“Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.”
Source: A Treatise on Differential Equations
“Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.”
“Of the many foundations upon which humans rest, words are probably the most solid.”
Source: Acolytes
“Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.”
“Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.”
Source: Love Life
“Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.”
“Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.”
“Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.”
Source: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal
“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”
“Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.”
Source: It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy
“Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships.”
Source: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar”
“Of the many whole food choices out there, apple cider vinegar is one of the cheapest and most natural food sources to incorporate into a detoxification weight management program”
Source: Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money