O Quotes
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“On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.”
Source: Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
“On this point we could agree. The bones of the fallen should be treated with respect and accorded the dignity that was their proper due. If only the living were also granted such grace, what a wonder our world could become.”
Source: Mayhem at the Mill
“On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.”
“On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.”
“On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.”
Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”
Source: The Road film tie-in
“On this road
where nobody else travels
autumn nightfall.”
“On this sacred night of Deepavali,
May each lamp you light
Dissolve the darkness of ignorance
And awaken the flame of compassion and kindness within.
May your heart glow with joy,
And your life be filled with endless peace and happiness.”
Source: Verses of Peace
“On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.”
“On this she was very decided. "Black licorice and Sour Patch Kids." I smiled at her enthusiasm.”
Source: Midnight Sun
“On this show, your voice will be heard in the form of my voice.”
“On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.”
“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
“On this side of heaven, for all of us, God doesn't always spare us the loneliness, remove the pain, or still the storm. So I ask you: How often do we miss his light because we fail to look for it? How many times do we turn away from the tiny flicker that reveals his presence because we shut our eyes tight, insisting that he remove the darkness?”
Source: One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Shadow of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting
“On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.”
“On this side of the grave we are exiles; on that, citizens.”
“On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.”
“On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.”
“On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!”
“On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.”
“On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York, awoke much too early for her night before. One minute she was asleep, the next she was completely awake and dumped into despair. It was the kind of despair that she had known perhaps two thousand times before, there being 365 mornings in a calendar year.”
Source: BUtterfield 8
“On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”
“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”
“On this thanksgiving, I would like to thank that one girl, who never lost hope despite all odds were against her, who always worked, and moved on, despite losing all friends just after leaving school, a time when you need friends the most! Who had immense strength and will-power and so much inspiration inside her that she ended up being happy, satisfied, and successful, all alone.
That one girl who always smiles in the mirror, and says, 'Bitch, you have a long way to go, and you gotta travel all alone, depending upon anyone will make you weak, so buck up, there's a lot you gotta do!' On this thanksgiving, I thank myself, my soul for being so majestically robust!
I would have thanked other people, but sadly, nobody ever helped me, more than I helped myself...”
“On this Thanksgiving, as we spend time with our family and friends, let's all reflect on what we're thankful for in our own lives. And let's remember those who cannot be with their loved ones because they're serving overseas. But let's also do our part to help those who have no place to go for a meal. I encourage all Americans to do what they can to help those in need-because the best way to show our gratitude for what we have is by doing our part for those who have less.”
“On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.”
Source: Stone, paper, knife
“On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.”
“On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.”
“On this world, superior beings tend to destroy the less endowed, be they lower life forms or kindred spirits; across the Multiverse, this is not the case.”
“On this world you have the animals and they have as much right to be on this world as us; and it’s man who is the reason they are pushed to extinction. They’re killing them for their tusks and their horns, and these fucking idiots, they think claws will give them sex appeal and they get all fucking sissy on you.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“On those crisp late winter days, when temperatures drop below freezing at nightfall, then rise once again in a sunny spring thaw you'll find them there. Three generations will be tapping, gathering, and boiling the sap, including some from the same faithful trees that towered over the property long before their ancestors arrived from northwestern Ireland.”
Source: Lanark County Kitchen: A Maple Legacy from Tree to Table
“On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.”
“On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're actually saying is, "Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today." Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.”
“On those luminous mornings Adela returned from the market, like Pomona emerging from the flames of day, spilling from her basket the coloful beauty of the sun –the shiny pink cherries full of juice under their transparent skins, the mysterious apricots in whose golden pulp lay the core of long afternoons. And next to that pure poetry of fruit, she unloaded sides of meat with their keyboard of ribs swollen with energy and strength, and seaweeds of vegetables like dead octopuses and squids–the raw material of meals with a yet undefined taste, the vegetative and terrestrial ingredients of dinner, exuding a wild and rustic smell.”
Source: The Street of Crocodiles
“On those nights, we watched TV shows from our native lands. 'American Gladiators.' 'Wipeout'. All easy-to-digest slapstick with American budgets. But they were not shows I'd known before. Abu Dhabi became this to me: memories of my country that weren't mine, and celestial Indian food.”
Source: The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East
“On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.”
“On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.”
“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.”
“On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly”
“On those who try to make me their guru or master, my approach is to start destroying that from the first moment we meet. It probably seems naive and idealistic, but I rely on basic, old-fashioned qualities in keeping my interactions clean: integrity, chivalry, honesty. In my experience, it’s not that difficult to eliminate the guru paradigm and stereotype, if one really wants to. Finally, it comes down to simply not accepting a role or the associated temptations offered.”
“On three," I say.
"One, two, three, go or one, two, three?" Anakin asks.
Micah huffs. "On go."
I begin counting, "One, two, three—"
Anakin steps away and Micah screeches, "Dude, we said on go!”
Source: Tainted Power - The Complete Series
“On Thuli Madonsela, April 2018: She considers herself a dreamer with a sense of purpose. She never wavers, nor take the bait when taunted. She lives the truth and always chooses right over wrong - and that's what makes her badass.”
“On Thursday morning, May 2, 1963, nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks woke up with freedom on her mind. But, before she could be free, there was something important she had to do. "I want to go to jail," Audrey had told her mother. Since Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks thought that was a good idea, they helped her get ready.”
Source: We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
“On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.”
“On Thursdays, they come here for the best palomas in town, thanks to my substitution of Jamaican tangelos and blood limes for the traditional grapefruit. And on Fridays, they come for half-price pork carnitas, legendary thanks to my addition of sweetened condensed milk, which caramelizes the meat with a sweet coating.”
Source: Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
“On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!”
Source: The magnolia [verse].
“On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.”
“On tietysti myös kiinnostavaa katsoa asioita toisen silmin, vaikkapa nyt naisena miehen silmin. Mutta hieman hämmentävää se voi olla, jos tuo katsominen toistuu aina samanlaisena ja erityisesti jos itsesi kaltaiset olennot eivät täysimääräisesti kuulu elokuvan ihmiskäsityksen piiriin. Tämä läpäisee koko todellisuuden niin voimallisesti, että sitä on vaikea nähdä. Se on normaalia.”
Source: Sinut on nähty
“On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band room and just talking.”
Source: Paper Towns