O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
And makes it fearful and degenerate.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
“Oft have I marked, with silent pleasure and admiration, the force and prevalence, through the United States, of the principle that the supreme power resides in the people, and that they never part with it. It may be called the panacea in politics.”
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
“Oft in the silence of the night,
When the lonely moon rides high,
When wintry winds are whistling,
And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
In the quiet, dusky chamber,
By the flickering firelight,
Rising up between two sleepers,
Comes a spirit all in white.”
Source: My Little Friend: And Other Stories
“Oft in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond memory brings the light
Of other days around me;
The smiles, the tears,
Of boyhood years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shown
Now dimmed and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken.
(from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain)”
Source: When the Splendor Falls
“Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.”
“Oft in the tranquil hour of night,
When stars illume the sky,
I gaze upon each orb of light,
And wish that thou wert by.”
“Oft merken wir erst, was wir hatten, nachdem wir es verloren haben. Das gilt für alles, von Menschen und Träumen bis hin zu Passwörtern, Gedanken, digitalen Währungen und Momenten.”
Source: Scherben einer zerbrochenen Seele
“Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate;
And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true,
Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate,
And bid the realms of light and life adieu.”
“Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.”
“Oft stumbles at a straw.”
“Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.”
“Oft times I write with my own blood in pain,a quick release of freedom to express well,the woes of past and present by views train;while my fancies unbar from my soul’s hall.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“Oft When Somber shadows veil the human laughter,and lowly made depression its doom above us sink,from agonal mind with grief that drive's and batter mark'd by the sails of lonely hours that steep to think.”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.”
Source: The Man with the Hoe: And Other Poems
“Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.”
“Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.”
“Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”
Source: Demonology
“Often a child's very gifts (his great intensity of feeling, depth of experience, curiosity, intelligence, quickness-and his ability to be critical) will confront his parents with conflicts that they have long sought to keep at bay by means of rules and regulations. These regulations must then be rescued at the cost of the child's development. All of this can lead to an apparently paradoxical situation when parents are proud of their gifted child and who admire him are forced by their own repression to reject, suppress, or even destroy what is best, because truest, in that child.”
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where? It is on God that we should wait, as a waiter waits--not for but on the customer--alert, watchful, attentive, with no agenda of his own, ready to do whatever is wanted. 'My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.' (Ps. 62:5 KJV) In Him alone lie our security, our confidence, our trust. A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.”
Source: Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity
“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.”
Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution
“Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.”
“Often a healthy obsession is an essential component of a great success.”
“Often a healthy obsession is an essential component of great success.”
“Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.”
“Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.”
“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“Often a noble face hides filthy ways.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.”
“Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.”
“Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Often a retrospect delights the mind.”
“Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Often a silent face has voice and words.”
“Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime”
“Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.”
Source: The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition
“Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done by directing one's attention away from the distracting details of the difficulty. From a detached perspective, we may examine the situation in a new or different light and, after exploring information and options, choose an appropriate course of action.”
“Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil”
“Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield.”
“Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor.
I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else.
Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.”
“Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.”
Source: Morning's Refrain (Song of Alaska Book #2)
“Often after arguing about differing opinions, I hear people say, "let's agree to disagree." I look forward to a time, so open-minded I'll hear people say, "I'm right and you can be, too”
“Often after work, I wander aimlessly around the city. I sit in bars and look at women's faces, searching for a piece of myself. I want to return to a different home, a home where he isn't. I guzzle champagne and savour the bravado and false hope it gives me. The bars eventually close and it's time to stagger back to Cell 208, where my lover awaits me, with clenched fist and gritted teeth.”
Source: Don't Hit Me!
“Often all riders had to eat were beans, bacon, corn bread, and coffee.”
Source: The Pony Express
“Often, all we need is a wake-up call to realise the dangerous lifestyles we lead. The morbidity of death is the most common type of shock. When someone very close to us is taken away, it creates a well of many emotions. Of course sadness, but also regret for not making the most of our time together on earth. For some people, it can also bring guilt. While death is a natural part of life, it is easy to feel guilt for not stopping it.”
Source: Burgundy Winters: in Europe
“Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world.”
“Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.”