O Quotes
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“Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.”
“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”
Source: Gertrude
“Often it is the poor who recognize emptiness before the rest of us—and for obvious reasons. While I am not suggesting that poverty predisposes people to some form of righteousness, I have seen how their circumstances often free them from much of the pretense that our relative privilege affords us. So while the poor are not godlier on the basis of their poverty, they are often at least more authentic in their brokenness, and thus, perhaps, closer to honestly recognizing what true emptiness is.”
Source: Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“Often it is the silence of the good that becomes the most devious thing.”
“Often it’s hard to differ pain and joy,
Some give up on differentiating”
Source: Of Endeavours Blue
“Often it's something you paid no attention to at the time—a
vague thought that you didn't bother to think out to the end,
words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed —these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and
blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make
up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
“Often, it's the small things in life that bring the greatest joy.”
“Often it takes more guts than skill to open doors. Once the doors get opened, then it's up to you.”
Source: SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOUR CAREER
“Often it takes more time to explain a task than to do it yourself, and when you do it yourself there is no data lost in transmission. We have something to learn about how communication works in these settings. Sometimes it takes a really long time to communicate the full meaning of what we want to say.”
“Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.”
“Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.”
Source: Rot and Ruin
“Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.”
“Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.”
“Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.”
“Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.”
“Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."”
“Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.”
“Often, knowing the language of a given prediction is more important than understanding exactly what a person says. The key is understanding the meaning and the perspective beneath and behind the words people choose. When predicting violence, some of the languages include:
The language of rejection
The language of entitlement
The language of grandiosity
The language of attention seeking
The language of revenge
The language of attachment
The language of identity seeking
Attention seeking, grandiosity, entitlement, and rejection are often linked. Think of someone you know who is always in need of attention, who cannot bear to be alone or to be unheard. Few people like being ignored, of course, but to this person it will have a far greater meaning.”
Source: The Gift of Fear
“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”
“Often, learning to speak out about racism and calling other people out on their racist behaviors is relatively easy. What is harder, however, is learning to be accountable for our own behavior and being compassionate with other people when they make mistakes and missteps. It is easy to cancel people. It's far harder to be canceled and to make space for people who have caused harm to change their behavior.”
Source: Me and White Supremacy Book and Guided Journal Set
“Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.”
“Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.”
“Often losing is better than winning. So don't fear to lose.”
“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.”
Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project
“Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.”
“Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.”
“Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.”
Source: No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
“Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.”
“Often, mistakes do not come from people, but from failed studies.”
“Often morality defines our inner philosophy.”
“Often more connections can mean greater distance.”
“Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.”
“Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.”
“Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.”
“Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!”
“Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.”
“Often non-gamblers know the truth, or part of the truth about the gamblers’ gambling and gambling debts. Yet, when the gamblers ask for money, or ask for financial sacrifices that will make money available for gambling, the non-gamblers feel they must comply with the gamblers' demands in order to protect others from learning the truth. They think the truth will destroy these others emotionally or financially.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Often, not the storm but the fear of storm beats us!”
“Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."”
“often notice that every writer seems to claim the best-selling and multi-award-winning writer; curiously, I wish to realize which ones feel and experience, failure in this context.”
“Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.”
“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”
Source: Between the Acts
“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.”
“Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
“Often one goes for one thing and finds another”
“Often one is more attached to the journey than to the discovery... because the journey happens in the mind... the discovery happens in the heart.”
“Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.”
Source: De Quincey's Writings: Historical and critical essays. 1853
“Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.”