O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.”
“Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.”
“Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.”
“Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.”
“Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and I find out that I need to know more. Then I usually get intrigued and excited about whatever it is I'm writing about.”
“Often I'm told I'm an inspiration to people which I will forever be grateful for. But the reality is that I'm only able to help others because others are helping me. Everyday people who are doing whatever they can to help make a difference are what keeps me going.”
“Often if you are very, very close with someone, sometimes it does not read. In effect, your dynamic onstage is defused. You share too much onstage. There's sort of a blurring of behavior that doesn't read to the audience as chemistry.”
“Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.”
“Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fractured the philosophical and political foundations of white supremacy by challenging the relationship between sexual domination and racial equality.”
Source: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
“Often immitated, but never duplicated!”
“Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.”
“Often in close relationships, the subject being discussed is not the subject at all.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Often, in death, everything else fails. We are left only with the music and the meaning of poetry.”
Source: The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
“Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
“Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.”
“Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.”
“Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.”
Source: India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'
“Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination.”
Source: Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
“Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning.”
“Often, in life, we don’t fail. Sometimes, we struggle to do something, get passed over, do something we wish we hadn’t, or give up. But even those moments aren’t truly failures in a pejorative sense. Mistakes, maybe. Suffering at the cruelty of others. Listening to your body and your brain and accepting their natural limitations. But it doesn’t mean you’re a disaster, and it doesn’t mean you’ve failed. Your journey will just continue on another path.”
Source: Wanderhome
“Often in life, we draw conclusions and reflexively take action based on what we see; which in the majority of situations is achingly insignificant or just plain wrong.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Often in life, you are forced to choose a different path than the one you desire, it is not fair, but who said life is fair. It is better sometimes to count your blessings instead of your losses and move on; although some losses are unforgivable. When deep in your heart, you reach to the conviction that "you did what you had to do and more", moving on will be second to nature for you. It is never easy but in the long run you will thank yourself for making that choice”
“Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?”
“Often, in my experience, the impression of beauty is created by a single aspect of a woman and from that aspect beauty appears to spread outward through every part of them, rendering them beautiful in their entirety. Sometimes such beauty comes from a smile. Sometimes from a lovely pair of eyes. Sometimes from an attitude, or form of movement, or a sentiment of goodness or happiness which reveals itself in a single expression. Sometimes it is the curve of a body from which beauty spreads, sometimes a tone of skin, or a river of glossy hair that catches the light and seems to shine like silk. Yet were that aspect to be removed and not replaced by something else, so too would the beauty it had brought to light disappear. Less often, beauty comes from several sources in the same person, all working together to increase the impression of overall beauty. If one of these aspects were to disappear, unlike a man, the woman would remain beautiful, though changed.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.”
Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“Often in relationships we have to move
the next mile, leaving behind the experiences
of the mile just past, and starting afresh.
It takes a big heart, and deep love to take
the risk of exposing yourself to being hurt
again, forgiving the people who tore you
down and giving the relationship another
chance.
Pray for strength and take along the learnings
from the past. This time, shift focus from
appeasing to creating healthier bonds with
clearer boundaries and lots of space.”
“Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.”
“Often in the morning he drove a long hour or more to the markets in the city, there to behold what would determine the day’s special. With the crates of fresh selections snuggled into his station wagon, his thoughts on the ride back confronted the culinary equivalent of the writer’s blank page. Sometimes his head swirled with exciting ideas; other mornings he was in a panic upon returning with the same old eggplant and squash and zucchini and nothing but the dullness of the word ratatouille standing by to mock him.”
Source: The Home Jar: Stories
“Often in the morning he drove a long hour or more to the markets in the city, there to behold what would determine the day’s special. With the crates of fresh selesctions snuggled into his station wagon, his thoughts on the ride back confronted the culinary equivalent of the writer’s blank page. Sometimes his head swirled with exciting ideas; other mornings he was in a panic upon returning with the same old eggplant and squash and zucchini and nothing but the dullness of the word ratatouille standing by to mock him.”
Source: The Home Jar: Stories
“Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.'”
“Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction”
“Often in the waves of change, we discover our true direction.”
Source: Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe
“Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.”
Source: Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus
“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”
“Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.”
“Often, intelligence officers on assignments abroad from different countries might get along with each other than with their own colleagues.”
Source: The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
“Often interfaces are assumed to be synonymous with media itself. But what would it mean to say that “interface” and “media” are two names for the same thing? The answer is found in the remediation or layer model of media, broached already in the introduction, wherein media are essentially nothing but formal containers housing other pieces of media. This is a claim most clearly elaborated on the opening pages of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media. McLuhan liked to articulate this claim in terms of media history: a new medium is invented, and as such its role is as a container for a previous media format. So, film is invented at the tail end of the nineteenth century as a container for photography, music, and various theatrical formats like vaudeville. What is video but a container for film. What is the Web but a container for text, image, video clips, and so on. Like the layers of an onion, one format encircles another, and it is media all the way down. This definition is well-established today, and it is a very short leap from there to the idea of interface, for the interface becomes the point of transition between different mediatic layers within any nested system. The interface is an “agitation” or generative friction between different formats. In computer science, this happens very literally; an “interface” is the name given to the way in which one glob of code can interact with another. Since any given format finds its identity merely in the fact that it is a container for another format, the concept of interface and medium quickly collapse into one and the same thing.”
“Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.”
“Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.”
“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”
“Often it feels like we are at a home match when we have so many fans there. The singing, the cheering helps the players.
(on Chelsea playing on the road)”
“Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.”
“Often, it is a quiet faith within that awakens the courage to go farther than we ever thought possible.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Often it is fatal to live too long.”
“Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.”
Source: God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You
“Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.”
“Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.”
“Often it is not the act that hurts you but the story you tell yourself afterwards.”
“Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance