O Quotes
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“Oh that I would commit to the things that would demand everything of me instead of committing to those things of which I demand everything. For it is the commitment that drains me of everything that is, in fact, the commitment that grants me all things.”
“Oh, that is nice, dear,” she said, beaming not only with lips but also with her eyes, “We often see reality in dreams, where we hardly see the purpose in reality.”
“Doesn’t it depend on the way we perceive reality?” said the boy
“But before that, you must know if it is your reality”
“Do we all have the same reality?
“The question is, why don’t we?” she said looking into the boy’s eyes.”
Source: Distorted Denouement
“Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again”
“Oh that it were with me
As with the flower;
Blooming on its own tree
For butterfly and bee
Its summer morns:
That I might bloom mine hour
A rose in spite of thorns.
Oh that my work were done
As birds' that soar
Rejoicing in the sun:
That when my time is run
And daylight too,
I so might rest once more
Cool with refreshing dew.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)
“Oh. That. Look, that was a time long time ago.
That’s not going to happen this time. I’m clean. I just want to have a nice dinner here with my girlfriend.”
Source: Sinner
“Oh that looked painful," called another Puck, a little farther down. "We really need to talk about your anger-management problems.”
Source: The Iron King
“Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he’d given up all hope.”
“Oh, that's a good one," I responded to the zingy and aromatic Southampton tea truffle, picking up on hints of apricot in the Ceylon tea. "Heaven," I moaned, gripping the marble countertop where she mixed and tempered her bonbons, after tasting the strawberry balsamic truffle, made with strawberry purée, eight-year-old La Vecchia Dispensa Italian balsamic vinegar, and 66 percent dark chocolate, which was then dusted with freeze-dried strawberry powder.”
Source: Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light
“Oh that's Gaspare," Isla said sweeping the bones otto one side. They made a horrible clattering sound on the metal surface. "I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how he died, so I brought him home with me.”
“Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can.”
Source: Under New Management
“Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice.
Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by sheer relief.
"I used to play it when I was a kid," he burbled. It's boring. The dwarfs always win!"
Gilt and Vetinari shared a look. It said: While I loathe you and every aspect of your personal philosophy to a depth unplummable by any line, I'll credit you at least with not being Crispin Horsefry.”
Source: Going Postal
“Oh, that's just what I need. To wait on all of my friends at Macy's."
"So what? You guys need the money, right?"
"There are jobs, and then there are jobs."
"You're talking to a girl who is working at a farm stand so that she can chase her dream job."
"That's different."
"Oh, yeah? How? Last I checked, Libby wanted you to spend two thousand bucks on chairs. Where's that money coming from?"
She sighs. "You and your father are all burned up about those chairs. Poor Libby."
"Poor Libby?" Classic. My mom always takes Libby's side. When Libby got a bad grade on an exam or paper, my mom would claim the teacher was incompetent, even when I'd had the same teachers and had aced their classes. When Libby's field hockey tournament was the same weekend as my clarinet recital, my mom chose Libby's tournament because, she said, Libby needed her support more than I did. And when Libby and her girlfriends ate the chocolate mousse I made as part of a project for French class senior year, my mom said it was my fault for leaving it in our refrigerator without a note. How was Libby to know?
"Mom, Libby lives in fantasyland. And anyway, if you cared so much about getting her damn chairs, you'd take a job at the gas station if you needed to." I catch myself. "I take that back. If Libby cares so much about the damn chairs, she should get a job at the gas station."
She clicks her tongue. "Sydney."
"What? Maybe it's time for Libby to grow up and realize she needs to take responsibility for things.”
Source: A Second Bite at the Apple
“Oh, that's not easy,' he mumbled. "Two souls in one heart. I hope the human in you won't prove to be stronger in the end. They find it so much harder to make peace with the world.”
Source: Fearless
“Oh, that's right. Missy opens doors.”
Source: The 12 Cats of Christmas
“Oh, that's the pot calling the kettle black.
Amusement flowed through the connection as Seth said, Or it's the pot calling the pot a pot.”
Source: Apollyon
“Oh, that." She shrugged her shoulder callously. "I only said that that heathen princess has been caught and locked away. I'm just waiting to hear when she and that conspirator she ran off with, will receive their sentences for betraying the King." The woman threw her head back and cackled an evil sound.”
Source: Sugar Plum Princess
“Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister”
“Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.”
“Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing.”
Source: The Apocalypse Gene
“Oh that we might have the wisdom to stop, lean down and pick up the scattering of things that we’ve so thoughtlessly discarded along the way. For if we were to do so, we would suddenly find ourselves holding the very treasures that we’d been looking for all along.”
“Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.”
Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.”
“Oh, the anxious, aging wives of his white business associates, fingers weighted down with diamonds, constantly tittering on about how busy they were with this committee meeting and that school event, all the while shedding pretty tears for dark-skinned children in distant countries. Charles loved being around them. They flattered him like concubines, wheedling checks for orphans in Burma or wells in Namibia, angling for ever-larger donations of cosmetics to put on the block at one of the endless silent auctions for their children's private schools. Nothing made him feel better than tossing off a check that elicited a breathy gasp of pleasure from one of the wives.”
Source: The Wangs vs. the World
“Oh, the Bible is full of freaks,' Therese said. She listed them on her fingers. 'At some point there's a talking donkey. And Joseph's got that crazy coat. And who's weirder than Jesus? The guy could walk on water.”
Source: Agatha of Little Neon
“Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom,
The ancient poet sung it,
And dear it is on summer days
To lie at rest among it.
I know the realms where people say
The flowers have not their fellow;
I know where they shine out like suns,
The crimson and the yellow.
I know where ladies live enchained
In luxury's silken fetters,
And flowers as bright as glittering gems
Are used for written letters.
But ne'er was flower so fair as this,
In modern days or olden;
It groweth on its nodding stem
Like to a garland golden.”
“Oh, the child you threatened once, the young shoot you stepped on, the Tamil you teased, is standing with a gun in front of you. His presence is taking you by surprise. How can you understand that it is the occupier who creates a poorali? You once dealt the blow. Now you are imprisoned. When a fox tries to eat the goat, the goat must turn into a tiger and leap. That is the edict of the times.”
“Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.”
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
Source: A Life for a Life
“Oh! the deep subtlety and cunning craftiness of the enemy! calling, in the name of our God, for enlargement of our confidence in him, that we might the more blindly follow on in the course of his deceivableness. And, Oh! the hollowness of our own hearts, which drank in flattery and seduction, and persuaded us we were drinking in the sincere milk of the word, and growing in love and in meekness. And, Oh! the awful justice, and yet redeeming grace, of our God, who, because of our secret pride, which led to a craving after something more than the gentle dew of the Spirit, morning by morning, gave us, indeed, meat to our lust, by leaving us under a spiritual power, which was supernatural and sweet to the taste, but afterwards wormwood and ashes; and yet remembering his mercy, repented him of his anger, and snatched us as brands from the burning.
Surely we have so much of glorious revelation made plain to us, that we can feed upon it in peace and patience, with thanksgiving; and need not to cultivate an unhealthy appetite after crude and novel views, in which we can neither find rest nor edification.”
Source: Narrative of Facts, Characterizing the Supernatural Manifestations in Members of Mr. Irving's Congregation
“Oh, the dilemmas of a teenage psychic.”
“Oh, the enchiladas are not really stuffed with chocolate, which would be really weird. What I do is dip tortillas in a hot chile sauce flavored with Mexican chocolate, then stuff them with Jack cheese and onions and bake them with more of the sauce. It's an authentic Mexican dish, and the flavor's not to be believed.”
Source: Hungry for Happiness
“Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?”
Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III
“Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad”
“Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic light on the wide earth, leaping audaciously to the sky, presently to be quenched by time, more cruel, more pitiless, more bitter than the sea—and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night.”
Source: Youth, a Narrative
“Oh the gloriousness of freedom and silence, of being alone with my own soul!”
Source: The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen
“Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)
“oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.”
Source: you are safe here.
“Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“Oh, the irony of life's little theatrics! I cracked a grin while my tears lined up for their grand performance, and my tongue played hide-and-seek with all those words eager to escape my lips. It's like a comedy of manners, where my emotions put on a masquerade, teasing me with their hidden truths. But fear not, for someday, this wordless mime will take center stage, and the spotlight will shine on my untold tales!”
“Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.”
Source: Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories
“Oh, the joys of an open-air crap in the countryside.”
“Oh! The lettuce! The lettuce got stuck! Remember the time..." I then
stop myself. “Sorry. Another...”
“Inside joke between you and Travis?” Martin finishes my sentence. “It seems to me like you are bringing up this Travis guy a lot tonight. Maybe he’s a little more than... just a friend?”
“No... no.” I stumble for words.”
Source: The Characters Within
“Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together.”
“Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the blood like fire it is a real madness. It is joy! All the terror is swept away, a man feels he could live for ever, he sees the enemy retreating, knows he himself is invincible, that even the gods would shrink from his blade and his bloodied shield. And I was still keening that mad song, the battle song of slaughter, the sound that blotted out the screams of dying men and the crying of the wounded. It is fear, of course, that feeds the battle madness, the release of fear into savagery. You win in the shield wall by being more savage than your enemy, by turning his savagery back into fear.”
Source: Warriors of the Storm
“Oh, the middle third of the U.S.!” Leo spread his arms. “Piece of torta, then. We’ll just
search the entire middle of the country!”
“Still with the sarcasm,” Percy noted.
“Hey, man, I’ve sailed with the most sarcastic scalawags on the high seas.”
The two gave each other a high five, though I did not quite understand why. I thought
about a snippet of prophecy I’d heard in the grove: something about Indiana. It might be a
place to start….”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!”
Source: The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in
“Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.”
Source: The North Water
“Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!”
Source: A Word Child
“Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don't
Because, sometimes they won't.
I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.”
Source: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.”
Source: The Power and the Glory