O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.”
“Of uncharted roads, unimagined experiences, and strangers less strange than the familiar. To travel anywhere without reservations; of bookings, or otherwise. To happily hop on to the next vehicle that comes along on a deserted road. To sleep in any corner of the world that offers me my six feet of space. To feel at home at every place, even other than home.
Travels that remind you that if life is indeed a journey, it is also best enjoyed if one travels light. Not lugging around unnecessary baggage; of emotions and possessions. Travels that teach you that when in pain, the only place to run to for a solution is within you. And not to magical mountains or ‘mystical savannahs’; if you know what I mean. For, none exist.”
Source: I Killed the Golden Goose : A COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS, THOUGHTLESSNESS, SILENCES, POEMS & SOME ‘SHOT’ STORIES
“Of unconnected consciousness is there more to say beyond the clear recognition this is destruction's keenest tool against the soul?”
Source: Two Thousand Seasons
“Of valid economics pre-dating the Power Age (steam and electricity), there remains not a vestige. Of valid economics pre-dating the intensive and extensive use of electricity there will soon exist only rags and tatters. We still have to thank Adam Smith for insisting 'Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production;' but the old form of the law of demand and supply is outmoded, since supply has become practically inexhaustible.”
Source: Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
“Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.”
“Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.”
“Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.”
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on
a rock”
Source: Frankenstein
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death -- a state which I feared yet did not understand.”
Source: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115”
“Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it may be, will answer, “What becomes of myself if all that I love in my heart and my spirit must die, that my life may be saved?” And are not almost all the morals, and heroism, and virtue of man summed up in that single choice?”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny
“Of what avail are pedigrees?”
“Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small.”
“Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?”
“Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?”
Source: The New Philippine Republic: A Third World Approach to Democracy
“Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?”
Source: Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms
“Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
“Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.”
“Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?”
“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”
Source: The Will to Power
“Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage.”
“Of what is real I say,
Is it the old, the roseate parent or
The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else
The spirit and all ensigns of the self?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.”
Source: The Silent Pulse
“Of what profit is it to a businessman who loses his capital in pursuit of profit? How fit is a person who sees it fit to engage in a misfit practice of hazarding into a business without the benefit of profit?”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing”
Source: SHOGUN
“Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?”
Source: Travels With a Donkey
“Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?”
“Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.”
“Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?”
Source: After Virtue
“Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality?
[Lat., Quid leges sine moribus
Vanae proficiunt?]”
“Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?”
“Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.”
“Of what use are the memories if not to grow flowers..... on the barren fields. Of what use are the falling tears if not to weave the string of pearls in the hardest hours...”
“Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?”
Source: Perpetuum Mobile: Or A History Of The Search For Self-Motive Power From The 13th To The 19th Century
“Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.”
“Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]”
“Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!”
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport
“Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?”
Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion
“Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.”
“Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?”
Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)
“Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.”
“Of what use is unrealized divinity to anyone? If he is unconscious of his higher self, is a man any better off? The link of being linked with God potentially is not enough. It must also be personally discovered, felt, known, and demonstrated in living activity.”
Source: Advanced contemplation: The peace within you
“Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.”
Source: Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
“Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.”
“Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.”
Source: The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real
“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!”
Source: Only the Deplorable
“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?”
Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)