O Quotes
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“Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.”
“Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.”
“Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.”
“Often, refugees think the worst is over as they arrive at their new homes, only to find new struggles
emerges under a different sun.”
“Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.”
“Often removing is improving.”
“Often, ritually abused and mind-controlled clients are described as being "polyfragmented," with hundreds of alters or more. Do not be overwhelmed by the number of parts.”
Source: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
“Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.”
Source: Hunted: A House of Night Novel
“Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order”
Source: All My Sisters
“Often, she read in search of something. However, she didn’t always know exactly what she was looking for when she turned the first page. Sometimes she was several chapters in before she went, ‘Ah, so this is what I’m looking for.’ There were also times she clearly knew—right from the beginning—what she sought. The novels she’d been devouring for the past year were mostly the latter. She wanted stories of people who walked away from their lives—whether it was for a few days, or forever. A myriad of reasons and backstories, but they had one thing in common: their lives change from then on.”
“Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.”
“Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.”
“Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.”
“Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.”
“Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.”
“Often success goes hand-in-hand with the sum total of sexual activity in your life.”
“Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.”
“Often, superstition and injustice are imposed by the same ecclesiastical and secular authorities, working hand in glove. It is no surprise that political revolutions, scepticism about religion, and the rise of science might go together,”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you will read it anyway, and you will take from it whatever you can. Then, perhaps, you will come back to it when you're older, and you will find the book has changed because you have changed as well, and the book is wiser, or more foolish, because you are wiser or more foolish than you were as a child.”
“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.”
“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.”
“Often, the best gifts we would ever receive in life are wrapped in the worst packages.”
“Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.”
“Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.”
“Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.”
“Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.”
“Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.”
“Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.”
“Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.”
“Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage.”
“Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.”
Source: The Confessions
“Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.”
“Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we can’t see the LORD’S HAND in our lives until long after the trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are ESSENTIAL building blocks that form the FOUNDATION of our CHARACTER and pave the way to FUTURE opportunity, understanding, and happiness.”
“Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.”
“Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions”
“Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.”
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
“Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.”
Source: Failure: The Back Door to Success
“Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.”
“Often the experiences that challenge us the most are the ones that harbor the greatest gift.”
Source: Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use
“Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.”
“Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.”
“Often the first poem is the hardest, the one caught by a lifetime of being smaller than you are, trapped by your ideas of what art is, what an artist is, immobilized by the judgments of teachers whose names you may never again remember. How did we come to forget that anything true is beautiful? How young were we then?”
Source: Poetic Medicine
“Often, the gift of hitting rock bottom is that it persuades you to change and move forward.”
“Often the girls would be unhappy with the police uniform. ‘why should we wear the men’s uniform, Maam, ? Why can’t we have something more comfortable, more suitable for us?”
It is true that the uniform is designed for a man. Yet, I feel that there should not be any difference in uniform because to me the uniform is the big equaliser. “the moment we start wearing a different uniform, others will perceive us differently,’ I would tell the girls. When you are breaking into a male bastion, you must first blend in, before standing out. I hope that one day there will be so many women IPS officers that they will stop being an aberration.”
Source: Madam Sir: The Story of Bihar’s First Woman IPS Officer