O Quotes
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“On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."”
“On or about December 1910, human character changed.”
Source: Selected essays
“On ordinary days we each walk alone or with a companion or two on the sidewalks, and the streets are used for transit and for commerce. On extraordinary days—on the holidays that are anniversaries of historic and religious events and on the days we make history ourselves—we walk together, and the whole street is for stamping out the meaning of the day.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“On ose nous dire que l'État ne peut plus assurer les coûts de ces mesures citoyennes. Mais comment peut-il manquer aujourd'hui de l'argent pour maintenir et prolonger ces conquêtes alors que la production de richesses a considérablement augmenté depuis la Libération, période où l'Europe était ruinée ? Sinon parce que le pouvoir de l'argent, tellement combattu par la Résistance, n'a jamais été aussi grand, insolent, égoïste, avec ses propres serviteurs jusque dans les plus hautes sphères de l'État.”
Source: Indignez-vous !
“On other days we have wars as horrible as anything you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
“On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.”
“On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!”
“On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.”
Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do
“On our Earth we can only love with suffering….we cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love”
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
“On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.”
“On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”
Source: The essential Neruda: selected poems
“On our final night in Seoul, Nami and Emo Boo took us to Samwon Garden, a fancy barbecue spot in Apgujeong, a neighborhood my mom once described as the Beverly Hills of Seoul. We entered through the beautiful courtyard garden, its two man-made waterfalls flowing under rustic stone bridges and feeding the koi pond. Inside the dining room were heavy stone-top tables, each equipped with a hardwood charcoal grill. Nami slipped the waitress twenty thousand won, and our table quickly filled with the most exquisite banchan. Sweet pumpkin salad, gelatinous mung-bean jelly topped with sesame seeds and scallions, steamed egg custard, delicate bowls of nabak kimchi, wilted cabbage and radish in salty, rose-colored water. We finished the meal with naengmyeon, cold noodles you could order bibim, mixed with gochujang, or mul, served in a cold beef broth.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.”
“On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth”
“On our last mission - our "final exam" - we were airlifted to a remote region, and we parachuted directly into a hostile enclave. We had to subdue the enemy using hand-to-hand tactics like tae kwon do and pugil sticks, cut their hair in styles appropriate to their particular face shapes, and give them perms.”
Source: My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
“On our own hibachi, my friend Takahiro and I grill whole tiny fish at the counter and dip them into saucers of soy whilst the chef slices scallops for us to eat raw.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“On our own, we are marshmallows and dried spaghetti, but together we can become something bigger.”
“On our own, we’d look totally normal. Together, we’re something else. Together, we’re special.”
Source: The Careful Undressing of Love
“On our own we simply don't know how to get things done the same way you do things. But, like everyone else, we want to do the best we possibly can. When we sense you've given up on us, it makes us feel miserable. So please keep helping us, through to the end.”
“On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.”
“On our planet, sir, males and females copulate. Moreover, they enjoy copulating. But for various reasons they cannot do this whenever, wherever, and with whomever they choose. Hence all this running around that you observe. Hence the world.”
Source: The End of the Road
“On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.”
“On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.”
“On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.”
“On our trip to Appalachia, I realized that my destiny would always be connected to mountains.”
Source: Geotravel: Tips and Stories
“On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'”
“On our way back to Los Angeles, we drove down through Grapevine Canyon on the northern end of Death Valley. This is where Scotty’s Castle is located, with its cooling system and power provided by an underground spring. Everything was so different from anything I had known back East, and very interesting. We continued through Death Valley, with water bags hanging from the car’s front bumper and a water cooler tightly clamped into a window on the passenger side. There were no rest areas in the desert, so we had to make stops alongside the road. Out in the open, in the middle of the day, this was the way to get back to nature! We hadn’t seen a car in hours, so there was no problem regarding modesty. In those days, cars were not as reliable as now. Driving through Death Valley at high noon in the middle of summer wasn’t the brightest idea, but it was an adventure! It was so hot that I watched my urine sizzle and instantly evaporate off the pavement of Badwater Road, which runs the length of the valley. At Stovepipe Wells we turned west on SR 190, heading towards Keeler and Dolomite. On this stretch of road we could look ahead and see Mount Whitney with its summit being 14,505 feet above sea level. It was exciting to see the highest mountain in front of us and look back to the lowest point in the United States at 282 feet below sea level. At that time, Alaska and Hawaii were not yet in the Union. Now Mount McKinley in Alaska tops Mount Whitney by 5,732 feet, being 20,237 feet high.”
“On our way home we throw the apples, the biscuits, the chocolate and the coins in the tall grass by the roadside. It is impossible to throw away the stroking on our hair”
Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
“On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."”
“On our way to the hotel, the pleasure of looking at boundless turquoise water surfaces was diluted by seeing a scary and very large military boat, floating by with marine solders on board and carrying real arms and guns! Our jaws fell; we watched them as if we were hypnotized, while the marines watched us too, with serious expressions on their sunburned faces.”
Source: MALDIVES... THE PARADISE
“On our way we passed a shop where my mother always ordered flowers. As a child I liked to watch the large storefront window awash in a perpetual curtain of water which came sliding down ever so gently, giving the shop an enchanted, mysterious aura that reminded me of how in many films the screen would blur to announce that a flashback was about to occur.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and therefore not a widow to be pitied.”
Source: And I Darken
“On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!”
“On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.”
“On page 603 it is stated that at first Blumenthal could not remember the lunch with me and my wife at which he had loudly impugned two female witnesses against Clinton. This makes it distinctly odd that he should have such have a vivid and detailed but mistaken recollection of the same lunch on page 607.”
“On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its way. I particularly remember the occasion when he called me up and invited me to dinner with Dick Morris, but only on condition that I brought Rushdie (who was staying in my house) along with me. No Rushdie: no invitation. So I never did get to meet Dick Morris.”
“On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure....”
“On pain of death, no person be so bold.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
[On painting and fighting look aloof.]”
“On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.”
“On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.”
“On paper it's perfect.
But the thing about paper is: It burns.”
Source: Just Like Fate
“On Paper
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some call it poetry
but it is just pain
on paper
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rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015
"The Poetic Assassin”
“On paper, the people now choose the party nominees for president. And yet, the process seems to have come full circle. [back to party bosses choosing] Voters theoretically get to pick the candidates, but in practice they rarely get the opportunity. In most cases, the contest is over in a few weeks after a burst of activity in a handful of states. How did the reform movement [late 60s, early 70s] get so far away from the plan? The answer is that there was no single plan, nor a single entity hat could craft a system to meet the original intent of the reformers. [To democratize the process]”
“On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.”
“On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.”
“On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.”
“On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.”
“On parle de bien par amour de mal et de progrès par mépris des gens. Nul ne sait quelle mouche a piqué ses voisins pour les détruire ou les épargner en connaissance de cause." P 19
L'enfant fou de l'arbre creux - Boualem Sansal”
Source: L'Enfant fou de l'arbre creux