O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.”
“Often, and I knew because I heard about it in sessions, people who revealed hurtful secrets were only trying to release their own pain by handing it off to someone else. Like a hot potato. Here, quick, take this searing knowledge so I don't have to hold it alone. This course of action is selfish and does no good, just scalds more people. I was not about to burden anyone else with my demons. Especially Ellie.”
“Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.”
Source: The Warfare Collection – Complete Historiographical Military Works of Rudyard Kipling: Sea Warfare, The Irish Guards in the Great War, A Fleet in Being, America’s Defenceless Coasts and many more: Including the Autobiography of the Author, France at War, The War in the Mountains, The Graves of the Fallen, The New Army in Training
“Often and often, when I was drifting away, and ready to die, she held me, and would not let me go.”
Source: Peggy
“Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”
“Often architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It’s like we’re actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.”
“Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.”
“Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.”
“Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.”
Source: Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers
“Often at shelters, we hear, 'I told my child she could get a pet, but she will have to take care of him.' That is an unrealistic expectation and often results in the pet being returned days, weeks, or months later. It is hard for pets to go in and out of a home. They bond with their humans and when they find themselves at a shelter, they become stressed at being taken away from home and the people they love. When an 'easy-way-out' decision is made to give up a pet, we are teaching our children that animals can be given away, turned away, and gotten rid of at the drop of a hat. If you are considering getting a cat or kitten, go into it fully aware that the adults in the home will have to help with the care of the pet.”
Source: Animal Rescue League of Iowa for Love of Cats: A Hands on Journey
“Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.”
“Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.”
Source: The Mask of Apollo
“Often, being in awareness and being in despair coincide.”
Source: Memoir: The Cathartic Night
“Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath
An embassy. Their numbers as he watched,
Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured.
And wrecks passed without sound of bells,
The calyx of death’s bounty giving back
A scattered chapter, livid hieroglyph,
The portent wound in corridors of shells.
Then in the circuit calm of one vast coil,
Its lashings charmed and malice reconciled,
Frosted eyes there were that lifted altars;
And silent answers crept across the stars.
Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive
No farther tides ... High in the azure steeps
Monody shall not wake the mariner.
This fabulous shadow only the sea keeps.”
“Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild boar could be seen, trotting with steady stride along the edge of the road with her sow and a whole procession of young in tow. And then one's heart beat faster upon advancing a little into the subtle light: one might have said that the path had suddenly become wild, thick with grass, its dark paving-slabs engulfed by nettles, blackthorn and sloe, so that it mingled up time past rather than crossing country-side, and perhaps it was going to issue forth, in the chiaroscuro of thicket smelling of moistened down and fresh grass, into one of those glades where animals spoke to men.”
“Often blaming, is a trait of a childish soul.”
“Often blessings and burdens comes hand in hand. The bigger the Crown the heavier the burden”
“Often children's book illustrators were assumed to have kind and whimsical natures--a foolish expectation, for all the best children's literature, if anyone has been paying attention, hinges on betrayal, the heartlessness of nature, death.”
Source: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
“Often considered an old-fashioned writer, one that would take pen to the paper”
“Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.”
Source: Composing a Life
“Often couples are deeply connected, fascinated really, with each other in the first weeks of the
relationship but as years pass we build familiarity (which is a good thing) and our curiosity wanes.
We get out of practice staying curiously engaged. Asking strong follow up questions is one place to start that shift.”
Source: Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples
“Often creativity comes from a very pragmatic kind of "well, what if we try this. How about this." You set some parameters and then work through the variations. It's hard to see something as a concept. It literally comes out of the hands on experiment.”
“Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air. But these ideas shouldn't only be for people who can afford to go to a museum or a symposium in the "better part of town."”
“Often, deceitful and unfaithful individuals seem to deny those they have claimed to love any form of clarity.
You are left hanging, often having to fend for yourself on where the truth lies. It seems they operate under the assumption that those in their lives will eventually figure a way out, that they will somehow read other people’s minds and know where they stand.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.”
“Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.”
“Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.”
“Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Often does hatred hurt itself.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.”
“Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you.”
Source: Spurgeon's Sermons on the Cross of Christ
“Often emphasis on identity and lifestyle is appealing because it creates a false sense that one is engaged in praxis. However, praxis within any political movement that aims to have a radical transformative impact on society cannot be solely focused on creating spaces wherein would-be radicals experience safety and support. Feminist movement to end sexist oppression actively engages participants in revolutionary struggle. Struggle is rarely safe or pleasurable.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.”
“Often, evicted families also lose the opportunity to benefit from public housing because Housing Authorities count evictions and unpaid debt as strikes when reviewing applications. And so people who have the greatest need for housing assistance—the rent-burdened and evicted—are systematically denied it.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“Often, exactly big complexes force an individual to achieve their big goals and massive success.”
“Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.”
“Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.”
“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
Source: Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
“Often fear is the same emotion as excitement. It means you are breaking ground.”
“Often feelings of shame, powerlessness, and self-hate are bottled up with the memories, and as the memories come through, these feelings do, too.
Yet healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself.”
Source: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
“Often finding herself a habitué of Liz’s sacred scanner, Naomi considered her kind friend’s presence in her life both a blessing and a curse: because she always knew without a word being spoken, and because she always knew without a word being spoken.”
“Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.”
“Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.”
“Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.”
“Often, given the new developments, I prefer no developments at all.”
“Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.”
Source: A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall
“Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.”
“Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to overwhelm their adversaries, the GOP uses huge campaign budgets as a substitute for strategy, thought or issues.”
“Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.”