O Quotes
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“Old!" she said to herself. "I am not old! I have lived many years, that is all. But I am as timeless as an hour-glass that turns morning and night, and spills the hours of sleep one way, the hours of consciousness the other way, without itself being affected. Nothing in all my life has ever truly affected me.--I believe Cleopatra only tried the asp, as she tried her pearls in wine, to see if it would really, really have any effect on her. Nothing had ever really had any effect on her, neither Caesar nor Antony nor any of them. Never once had she really been lost, lost to herself. Then try death, see if that trick would work. If she would lose herself to herself that way.--Ah, death--!"
But Mrs. Witt mistrusted death too. She felt she might pass out as a bed of asters passes out in autumn, to mere nothingness.--And something in her longed to die, at least, positively: to be folded then at last into throbbing wings of mystery, like, a hawk that goes to sleep. Not like a thing made into a parcel and put into the last rubbish-heap.”
“Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn”
“Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty."
"It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused.”
Source: Sea Glass
“Old souls yearn for soul connections,
If it is there, we stay and love with all that we are
If it is not, we take the lesson and leave.”
“Old Sparky never burned what was inside them, and the drugs they inject them with today don't put it to sleep. It vacates, jumps to someone else, and leaves us to kill husks that aren't really alive anyway.”
Source: The Green Mile
“Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.”
Source: In Leningrad
“old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.”
Source: A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow
“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.”
Source: The Night Circus
“Old stories often turn out to be true.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)
“Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act - to Weave - was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.”
“Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.”
“Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people had come to trust in them merely by repeating them, without paying any attention to the ethical implications of what their faith should mean in how they lived. They believed God had given them their land. He had. But they had not lived in it in either gratitude or obedience. They had not fulfilled any of the conditions that Deuteronomy had made so clear.”
“Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He's got these anger issues that you can't believe. He's like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He's pro-slavery, he's pro-polygamy, he's homophobic, he'll kill you for masturbating.”
“Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make thoughts and arguments regarding their effect or meaning - this being the essence of my time in religious studies.”
“Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.”
“Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.”
Source: Beautiful Creatures
“Old things are replaced by new ones but the only old ones that cant be replaced are the ones with something with our lives.”
“Old things climb out through my mouth and set themselves free in the air. On the high moor there are patterns and in my small mind there are patterns. [...] All the centuries drop away, and I am in the presence of something that does not know time.”
Source: Beast
“Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!”
Source: Poems
“Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.”
“Old thug rules. First thug who dies loses!”
Source: Shard's Thugs
“Old-time ranchers planted cheatgrass because it would green up fast in the spring and provide early forage for grazing cattle,” Oyster says, nodding his head at the world outside.
This first patch of cheatgrass was in southern British Columbia, Canada, in 1889. But fire spreads it. Every year, it dries to gunpowder, and now land that used to burn every ten years, it burns every year. And the cheatgrass recovers fast. Cheatgrass loves fire. But the native plants, the sagebrush and desert phlox, they don’t. And every year it burns, there’s more cheatgrass and less anything else. And the deer and antelope that depended on those other plants are gone now. So are the rabbits. So are the hawks and owls that ate the rabbits. The mice starve, so the snakes that ate the mice starve.
Today, cheatgrass dominates the inland deserts from Canada to Nevada, covering an area over twice the size of the state of Nebraska and spreading by thousands of acres per year.
The big irony is, even cattle hate cheatgrass, Oyster says. So the cows, they eat the rare native bunch grasses. What’s left of them...
“When you think about it from a native plant perspective,” Oyster says, “Johnny Appleseed was a fucking biological terrorist.”
Johnny Appleseed, he says, might as well be handing out smallpox.”
Source: Lullaby
“Old Time the clock-setter.”
“Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.”
Source: Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9
“Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.”
Source: The Dream, and Other Poems
“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”
Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.”
Source: Tom Brown's School Days
“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.”
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du
“Old trees want to hurt you. It doesn't matter if you're snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, or just taking a walk in the woods. Old trees want to hurt you, and I think they'd kill you if they could.”
Source: The Mist
“Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.”
Source: Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles
“Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)
“Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.”
Source: A thousand and one Gems of English poetry, selected and arranged by Charles Mackay
“Old ugly is better than old nothin'”
“Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.”
“Old ways are called history, new ways are the future. One who brings them together, is called the humanizer.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it”
“old ways won't open new doors; so innovate; to not innovate is to die”
“Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.”
“Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?”
Source: The Complete Cat's Meow: Everything You Need to Know about Caring for Your Cat
“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”
“Old woman, you don't thump the Bible at me- you beat it like a drum."
"That's because along with being hardheaded, you are apparently hard of hearing."
Charlotte pushed off her rocker so hard it slammed against the wall. Nothing irritated her more than having religion shoved down her throat. And no one carried a bigger shovel than Lettie.
"Baptists are like fleas!" Charlotte flared. "Impossible to get rid of and irritating as hell!"
"On Judgement Day," Lettie said smugly, "I have no doubt the burn will take your mind off the itch.”
Source: The Rock Orchard
“Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.”
“Old women can see through walls.”
“Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.”
“Old women like Peta Ponce have the power to fold time over and confuse it, they multiply and divide it, events are refracted in their gnarled hands as in the most brilliant prism, they cut the consecutive happening of things into fragments they arrange in parallel form, they bend those fragments and twist them into shapes that enable them to carry out their designs.”
Source: The Obscene Bird of Night
“Old women look all innocent and goody-two-shoes, but then they level some all-knowing eyes on your ass.”
Source: Fortune Smiles
“Old women’s houses feel like the safest place on earth. A shrine to functional femininity.”
Source: Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home – A Graphic Memoir of Codependence, Compassion, and the Portland Punk Scene