O Quotes
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“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books
“Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.”
“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq
“Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words.”
“Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.”
Source: Bird and Bough
“Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.”
Source: The Canongate Burns
“Oh, sunshine, I whisper and smile gently. Haven't you figured out that I'm completely in love with you?”
“Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead; just very tired.”
“Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere”
“Oh, sure... I was trying to make to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment. That was obviously misconstrued, and that's one of the things I probably won't do again”
“Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’”
“Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!”
“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.”
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.”
“Oh, talking is not so bad as that," said the Jester. "True, most people say only silly things when they speak. But it's easier to ignore them if you're saying silly things yourself.”
Source: If You're Reading This, It's Too Late: The Secret Series
“Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.”
Source: The Dud Avocado
“Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?”
“Oh, thank you love
With all my heart and soul I thank you love
Each day that comes and goes I thank you love
I thank you 'cause you gave me true love”
“Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.”
“Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.”
“Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.”
“Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.”
“Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention”
Source: The Thorn Birds
“Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
Source: PS, I Love You
“Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance and nice homes. They want for you cars and respect. I want for you the same thing I want for my son, that one day he takes a banner, the banner of Jesus Christ, and he places it on a hill where no one has ever placed a banner before, and he cries out, 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' even if it costs my son his life.”
“Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.”
“Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!”
Source: Life and Journal of the Rev. David Brainerd ... By Jonathan Edwards
“Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.”
“Oh, that in religion, as in everything else, man would judge his brother man by his own heart; and as dear, as precious as his peculiar creed may be to him, believe so it is with the faith of his brother!”
Source: The Vale of Cedars: & Other Tales
“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”
“Oh, that peace may come.”
“Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.”
“Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.”
“Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
[Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]”
“Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.”
“Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!”
Source: Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!”
Source: The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion
“Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?”
Source: Heaven Sent
“Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.”
“Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.”
“Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.”
“Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.”
“Oh, the boots were on the other eight feet now.”
Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)
“Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!”
Source: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!”
“Oh, the cleverness of me!”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.”