O Quotes
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“On le prend, on le pose sur un doigt et on l'inspecte de près : "Vous êtes drôle. Vous ne vieillissez pas. Vous avez les exigences, les indignations des adolescents. Leur goût de l'absolu. Vous tenez absolument à savoir. Est-ce bon? Est-ce mauvais? Il vous faut des règles impérieuses qu'il serait obligatoire d'appliquer. Vous voulez à toute force qu'il y ait une vérité à laquelle on soit contraint de se soumettre coûte que coûte. Le terroriste - c'est vous, mon cher... L'Art, comme vous dites, une oeuvre d'art n'est jamais une veleur sûre. [...]”
Source: Les Fruits d'Or
“On le voit, la question est systémique ; il faut une sorte boussole au leadership pour lui permettre d’assumer une fonction de prévention ; l’adage s’applique alors à la gestion des affaires de la cité : « Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir ».”
“On le voit, la question est systémique ; il faut une sorte boussole au leadership pour lui permettre d’assumer une fonction de prévention ; l’adage s’applique alors à la gestion des affaires de la cité : « Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir ». On le pressent aussi, la direction de la cité et le leadership ont besoin de la connaissance et de la sagesse, du savoir, mais d’un savoir qui est maturité. Le leadership et la gouvernance ont besoin d’une harmonie qui est un certain degré de consensus sur des valeurs et des principes essentiels, mais ceci suppose aussi un certain degré d’ordre, de sécurité et de discipline.”
“On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!”
“On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'”
“On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.”
“On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.”
“On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.”
Source: The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
“On Legacy: "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." — Pericles”
“On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)
“On life's stage for your real life play, always choose the best, most excellent actors for top success.”
“On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life
“On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”
“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln
“On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly.”
Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand
“On lit pour découvrir une vision du monde.”
Source: Les Combustibles
“On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.”
“On losing the opportunity to star in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman 'You know what? It happened for the right reason. Although I would have made a good Clark Kent. I look better in glasses.”
“On Lou's lips a trace of pinot and out of them poured tales of acts of viciousness worthy of the great Lucifer himself, stories told through the night, the tortures, the beatings, the broken bones, every school has its Tigellinus, but his had more than one and each with followers, all-American boys who delighted in discovering how much pain a soul could withstand, two suicide attempts and all his parents and school could do was try to make Lou change his behavior, his behavior, his behavior, his, his, his, to modify his being just a bit. It gets better, Doc, fucking gets better, no one dared suggest that maybe the family and the school should change, or heaven forbid, that it was the all-Americans who should be modifying their beings, no, the homo should grin and bear it dumbly...”
Source: The Angel of History
“On Love - Any husband who stammers that he's just been too busy to tell his wife he loves her is a lazy fool or a liar.”
“On Love - Love without trust is the love you give a dog. You may call that cute little mutt a member of the family but you don't let him in the kitchen when there's a roast on the table.”
“On Love - Men love women for their virtues. Women love men in spite of their flaws.”
“On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.”
“On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.”
“On m'a soufflé mon dernier coin de soleil : C'est de la farce.”
Source: La Faute de l'abbé Mouret
“On Madonna: She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.”
“On Make America Great Again:
The agenda of a dead body coming back to life. Whenever you have the past (what is dead) presenting itself as an agenda to fix the present moment by taking us back—to the dead—you have contagion, pest, collusion, pollution, delusion—not illusion. Illusion is a hope. Delusion is a past illusion presenting itself as hope. Hope is something that has not happened yet, but when it happens, and the happening has already died and been buried—and other present moments have come forward and made us live other present moments—and a dead body—a dead moment—comes back presenting itself as if it were alive—and it is dead—and it doesn’t tell us that it is dead—that is not an illusion—that is a delusion.”
Source: Putinoika
“On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable. That is the point, Monsieur. Though I carried the complete works of Bach and Haydn in my head and could say the cleverest things about them, not a soul would be the bet- ter for it. But when I take hold of my mouthpiece and play a lively shimmy, whether the shimmy be good or bad, it will give people pleasure. It gets into their legs and into their blood. That's the point and that alone. Look at the faces in a dance hall at the moment when the music strikes up after a longish pause, how eyes sparkle, legs twitch and faces begin to laugh. That is why one makes music.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.”
Source: Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes
“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life,
Musing is solitude”
“On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.”
“On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.”
“On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips. Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right. You see? Even death has a heart.”
“On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.”
“On many nights I have availed myself of these very gentlemen, in the adjoining room. Each time, I wondered if you might arrive and see me, as I took my pleasure, allowing their hands to explore my body. There is no part of me that has not been kissed and enjoyed. I opened myself in welcome, encouraging my suitors to bury themselves deep and hard, to obliterate all reserve and find the heart of me.”
Mademoiselle Noire - The Gentlemen's Club”
Source: The Gentlemen's Club
“On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you. I believe that if you find yourself enslaved inside a controlling church structure of legalism and bondage, then you are already being persecuted! So many Christians seem impossibly distracted from hearing God's voice. Instead of listening to that still, small voice that brings true peace and joy, they blindly follow the voices of mainstream religion. The worst kind of persecution for a Christian is when you are separated from the joy and presence of the Holy Spirit.”
“On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.”
“On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.”
“On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.”
Source: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
“On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !”
“On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.”
Source: Selected Literary Essays
“On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.”
“On many, many issues, Hillary Clinton's views are progressive. In many areas, they are awesome. Where they're not progressive, we've got to push her, and the day after the election, I will mobilize millions of people to make sure that we make her the most progressive president that she can be.”
“On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.”
Source: Epochs of American History
“On March 11, 1980, Steven Bach was given some shocking news: Andy Albeck told him that David Field had handed in his resignation and was going to 20th Century Fox. It was announced in the press as being for the usual boilerplate “personal reasons.” But everyone at Fox soon learned the real reason for his fleeing United Artists (once principle photography had finally wrapped on Heaven’s Gate)… DAVID FIELD: “Everyone thought it was because of Heaven’s Gate. In fact, it was because I could not go on working with Steven Bach.”
Source: Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists
“On March 12, 1973, a big day, Wounded Knee declared itself a sovereign territory o the independent Oglala Nation. Anybody of goodwill, Indian or white, could become a citizen. Whatever one might say about AIM, it was never racist. As Crow Dog expressed it: "We don't want to fight the white man, but only the white man's system.”
Source: Lakota Woman
“On March 12, 2015, the AIM Development Company, that deals in scrap metal, met to discuss demolishing the now defunct Verso Paper Mill in Bucksport, located at the head of Penobscot Bay. The paper mill was first built by the Maine Seaboard Paper Company in 1930. Demolition of the mill is expected to be completed in 2016. However, company representatives and town officials did not discuss what AIM might do with the 250-acre waterfront site once the demolition work is complete. Originally it was believed that a recycling facility, using the deep-water port access to export salvaged metals, would be the most likely thing to be built on this site; however this plan has now been scrapped. In 1980 this mill employed more than 1,350 workers and was the largest employer in Bucksport, a town of about 5,000 residents.
The demolition and removal took much longer than anyone expected and as salvage crews continued working, a fire broke out on March 19, 2017. Apparently the fire erupted at about 8:30 a,m. as workers using cutting torches, cut into the metal exterior wall of the mill. Spreading to the roof of the building, it was debated as to the feasibility of allowing the fire to destroy the remaining structure. Considering the safety involved firefighters from Bucksport and surrounding towns extinguished the fire. It is expected that the remaining remnants will be demolished by the middle of 2017 in fact the company has open rail cars in position, waiting to remove whatever is left of the mill.”
“On March 13, 1938, Austria was annexed by Germany. It didn’t seem to help that President Roosevelt had sent a letter to Adolf Hitler seeking peace. The year ended with Kristallnacht, when many Jewish shops and synagogues were looted, burned and otherwise destroyed, throughout the fatherland.
In 1939, Hitler expanded the German Navy and, in violation of the Munich Agreement, occupied parts of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Germany then established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. This protectorate included those portions of Czechoslovakia that had not already been incorporated into Germany. On August 30, 1939, the German Reich issued an ultimatum to Poland concerning the Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig. On September 1st, without waiting for a response to its ultimatum, Germany invaded Poland. Much to Hitler’s surprise, England honored its treaty with Poland. Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany, thereby ushering in another World War. Officially, “The Second World War” in Europe was started by the German Reich when it attacked Poland, although at the time Germany blamed the Treaty of Versailles.”
“On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.”