O Quotes
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“Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.”
“Often times some may find that negative observance of others may in fact derive from inward flaws of themselves.”
Source: Standing at the Top of the Hill
“Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.”
“Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.”
“Often times, the world looks at Christians and they are quick to criticize the ways we fall short. That is not God’s fault. That is each Christian’s fault, for not cultivating the fruit of the Spirit in their own soul. As Christians we all have a responsibility to ensure that we are always growing in our Christian walk, and that we are walking 'worthy of our calling,' as Paul says.”
Source: Jesus, God and Us
“Often times we allow ourselves to become impatient, by viewing God’s promises based on our human knowledge. Our thoughts and ways are irrelevant in his judgment to grant any of our requests. We need to have patience and trust in God for answers to our requests.”
“Often times we fall for people's reflections, forgetting that there are shadows behind them.”
“Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.”
“Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.”
Source: Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions
“Often times, when in the throes of extraordinary pain, we want to give up on Life. We believe we cannot go on. Be wary of this downward mood spiral. In Life, as in cricket, it’s never over until it is over, until the last ball is bowled! And when it is over, when your time is up, you wouldn’t obviously be around to know what happened! So, why worry, why grieve and why be anxious? Live free. Live without worry or fear. Live in prayer and surrender. Remember: you are in Life’s safe hands! So, no matter what, you will be looked after, cared for and provided for.”
“Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.”
“Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.”
“Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.”
“Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.”
“Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.”
“Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.”
Source: Lost December: A Novel
“Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.”
“Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.”
“Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb.”
“Often trials and tribulations are allowed to come into our lives because of what we are doing right.”
“Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work through him.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
“Often try what weight you can support,
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.”
“Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]”
“Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.”
“Often, under the layers of our maturity is a child’s insecurity screaming for love and attention.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Often, unfulfilled promises by our loved ones can give us the worst feelings in the world.
From (The Awakening)”
“Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary citizens often learn of important global institutional design decisions only after they have already been finalized and adopted. The only reliable way to be kept informed and to exert timely influence is by lobbying and paying the politicians and their negotiators.”
“Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning.”
Source: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
“Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'”
Source: Perpetual Peace
“Often we agree to shady but attractive propositions and as a result we have sorrow”
“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
“Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.”
Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
“Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.”
“Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.”
“Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.”
Source: Donkey Gospel: Poems
“Often we blame the breed, but in my opinion, it's not the breed, it's the owner. The owner has to be the pack leader and provide exercise, discipline, then affection. If you do that, you'll have a sweet, loving, and balanced dog - no matter what breed!”
“Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.”
“Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change. But if you truly cannot do anything about something, then why on earth would you want to make things even worse for you by falling into despair? It seems like adding a self-inflicting injury to the already existing one.”
“Often we can get caught in our own struggles, our own small stories, that we forget our place in the larger story arc – the way that our actions, our choices, our achievements can and will blaze trails for that who come after us, so that they do not have to spend their time and energy re-fighting the same battles.
For sure we walk a spiral path, but for generations of women the spirals were so tightly packed that it seemed they were going round in circles – let us blaze trails so that the path we walk takes in wider and wider sweeps of human experience.
Trail blazing is what we do when we find ourselves in the wilderness, with no path to guide us but our own intuitive understanding of nature and our destination. At times we must walk through the night, guided only by the stars. We know when to sit and rest, to shelter from storms, when to gather water, and what on the trail will sustain us and what will do us harm. We are courageous and cautious in equal measure, but we are driven forward, not only by our own desire to reach our destination, but also by the desire to leave a viable way for others who follow.
Trail blazing is an art-form. It is how we find paths through what before was wilderness. We push aside braches, or cut them back, we tramp down nettles and long grasses, ford rivers and streams, through the inner and outer landscapes.”
Source: Burning Woman
“Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.”
Source: Health & Wealth
“Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.”
“Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.”
Source: Life Together
“Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.”
“Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.”
Source: On Pilgrimage
“Often we concentrate on the process and forget the results.”
“Often we consider Africa to be poor without taking their history into account”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.”
“Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.”
“Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.”