O Quotes
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“Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.”
“Oh, the weather outside is weather.”
“Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.”
“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.”
“Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, -- / Not lost, but gone before.”
“OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?”
“Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?”
Source: The Clayborne Brides: One Pink Rose, One White Rose, One Red Rose
“Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.”
Source: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
“Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.”
“Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.”
“Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.”
“Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than Easter Parade or any of the others. I just don't look back, period. When I finish with a project, I say 'all right, that's that. What's next?'”
“Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.”
“Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.”
“Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.”
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.”
Source: Look To Windward
“Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?”
“Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?”
“Oh, thinkin' about all our younger years There was only you and me We were young and wild and free Now nothin' can take you away from me We've been down that road before But that's over now You keep me comin' back for more.”
“Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.”
“Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!”
Source: Catullus, Tibullus, and Pervigilium Veneris
“Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.”
“Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.”
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.”
“Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?”
Source: Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.”
“Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.”
Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel
“Oh, this is fun - went to a nude beach for the first time. Yeah, that's what I thought. You ever been to a nude beach? Thought it would be all sexy and hot. Oh my God, what a flubber fest! Everybody who shouldn't be naked is naked - didn't make me want to take off my clothes, made me want to take out my contacts.”
“Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.”
“Oh, this is the joy of the rose;
That it blows,
And goes.”
Source: April Twilights (1903): Poems
“Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.”
“Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.”
Source: Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach
“Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.”
“Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.”
“Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)”
“Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.”
Source: South Riding
“Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.”
“Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more”
Source: Portnoy's complaint
“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”
“Oh, to be home again, home again, home again!
Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!”
“Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.”
“Oh, to be in England now that April's there.”
“Oh, to be seventy again!”
“Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655