O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
“Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.”
“Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!”
“Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.”
“Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!”
“Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.”
“Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!”
“Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.”
“Oh, the fun we two have together.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.”
Source: The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. New illustr. ed., with notes by G.C. Davies
“Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.”
“Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.”
“Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.”
“Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.”
“Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.”
“Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?”
“Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road”
“Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.”
“Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
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“Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.”
“Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.”
Source: Blood and gold, or, The story of Marius
“Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.”
Source: Poetical works
“Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.”
“Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.”
Source: The Dreamer, and Other Poems
“Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.”
“Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.”
“Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.”
“Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.”
“Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.”
“Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials
“Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.”
“Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.”
“Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.”
Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel
“Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.”
“Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear,
And he shows them pearly white.
Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear,
And he keeps them out of sight.”
“Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!”
Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.”
Source: Speech in Season
“Oh, the soul keeps its youth!”
“Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still.”
“Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”
Source: East of Eden
“Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.”
“Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.”
Source: Engleby: A Novel
“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
Source: Classic Horror Collection: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Jekyll and Hyde, & The Island of Dr. Moreau
“Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.”
“Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.”
“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.”
“Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.”
“Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.”