O Quotes
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“O tempo veio dar o seu compasso, descompassando o do fluxo vital.”
Source: O Eixo do Tempo
“O tempo é o maior tesouro de que um homem pode dispor; embora inconsumível, o tempo é o nosso melhor alimento; sem medida que o conheça, o tempo é contudo nosso bem de maior grandeza: não tem começo, não tem fim; é um pomo exótico que não pode ser repartido, podendo entretanto prover igualmente a todo mundo; onipresente, o tempo está em tudo; existe tempo, por exemplo, nesta mesa antiga: existiu primeiro uma terra propícia, existiu depois uma árvore secular feita de anos sossegados, e existiu finalmente uma prancha nodosa e dura trabalhada pelas mãos de um artesão dia após dia; existe tempo nas cadeiras onde nos sentamos, nos outros móveis da família, nas paredes da nossa casa, na água que bebemos, na terra que fecunda, na semente que germina, nos frutos que colhemos, no pão em cima da mesa, na massa fértil dos nossos corpos, na luz que nos ilumina, nas coisas que nos passam pela cabeça, no pó que dissemina, assim como em tudo que nos rodeia; rico não é o homem que coleciona e se pesa no amontoado de moedas, e nem aquele, devasso, que se estende, mãos e braços, em terras largas; rico só é o homem que aprendeu, piedoso e humilde, a conviver com o tempo, aproximando-se dele com ternura, não contrariando suas disposições, não se rebelando contra o seu curso, não irritando sua corrente, estando atento para o seu fluxo, brindando-o antes com sabedoria para receber dele os favores e não a sua ira; o equilíbrio da vida depende essencialmente deste bem supremo, e quem souber com acerto a quantidade de vagar ou a de espera, que se deve pôr nas coisas, não corre nunca o risco, ao buscar por elas, de defrontar-se com o que não é.”
Source: Lavoura arcaica
“O tempora! O mores!
O what times (are these)! what morals!”
“O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
The golden time of first love!
The eye sees the open heaven,
The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
O that the beautiful time of young love
Could remain green forever.”
“O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“O terapeuta explicou que, com frequência, diferentes partes do nosso íntimo querem coisas distintas, e se silenciamos as partes que consideramos inaceitáveis, elas encontrarão outras maneiras de se fazerem escutar.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.”
Source: ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)
“O that a lady, of one man refused,
Should of another therefore be abused!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“O that every season might be Bealtaine that we might see Your Light plainly. But no. For in each time and season we learn patience, prudence, temperance, and wisdom. If all seasons were the same, we would miss You in Your fullness.”
Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“O that I were a man, or that I had power
To execute my apprehended wishes!
I would whip some with scorpions.”
Source: The White Devil
“O that it might remain eternally green,
The beautiful time of youthful love.”
“O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.”
Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!”
Source: The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price
“O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.”
Source: Poems and Parodies
“O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.”
Source: The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...
“O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!”
Source: Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer
“O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings
“O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,”
Source: As You Like it
“O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!”
Source: On The Magnet
“O, that the gods
Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
Though they did change me to the meanest bird
That flies i' the purer air!”
Source: Pericles
“O, that
The spring evening would last for good
When the fragrant cherry petals
Are reeling up and down!
香ぐわしき
桜の花
空に散る
春の夕べ
暮れずもあらなむ”
Source: Zen Fool Ryokan
“O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.”
Source: Sermons of George Whitefield
“O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.”
“O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!”
Source: Scenes of Clerical Life
“O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.”
“o the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another…as you love yourself, love thy neighbor.'”
“O the green things growing, the green things growing,
The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.”
“O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.”
“O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.”
“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.”
“O The Ring and the Answer
A Poem by Alexander Martini
One carries the Ring.
Not from pride.
Not from power.
But because he can.
He knows the weight.
He knows the whisper.
He knows the lure of ruling.
Yet he offers it forth.
Not to command.
But to share.
Not from greed.
But from grace.
“Will you help to carry?” he asks.
Not: “Will you rule?”
But: “Will you unite?”
And all reply: “Yes.”
Not loudly.
But true.
Then the Ring loses its center.
For power, shared, becomes responsibility.
And responsibility, shared, becomes community.
The burden grows lighter.
Not because it fades.
But because it is borne — by many, in love.
The world is transformed.
Not by victory over darkness.
But by refusing to become dark.
Yet beware, if the “Yes”
is not born of truth,
but of greed.
Then the Ring is not shared.
It multiplies.
And many Rings mean not freedom,
but fetters.
For power without love remains power.
And power without grace becomes tyranny.
But when the answer comes from truth,
power turns to light.
Burden turns to love.
And one Ring becomes — a circle.
A circle that does not bind.
But connects.
This poem was inspired by the symbolic legacy of Tolkien’s Ring — reimagined through the lens of love, grace, and communal transformation.”
“O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts”
“O, the sorrow of us all,
to wander the earth in a shell.
And looking to the heavens,
we lay to rest in hell.
The suffering of the innocent
in the midst of Jacob’s well.
How the miles fled between us,
and that distance is still great.
Though on the same shore we now sit,
in temporal quietude to wait.
The moon is our bright witness;
it will lead us to the gate.”
Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
“O the wind is a faun in the spring time
When the ways are green for the tread of the May!
List! hark his lay!
Whist! mark his play!
T-r-r-r-l!
Hear how gay!”
“O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!”
Source: Hamlet. Timon of Athens
“o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.”
“O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.”
“O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”
“O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion.”
“O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits
The agile precincts of the lark’s return;
Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing
In single chrysalis the many twain —
Of stars Thou art the stitch and stallion glow
And like an organ, Thou, with sound of doom —
Sight, sound and flesh Thou leadest from time’s realm
As love strikes clear direction for the helm”
Source: The bridge
“O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books