O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“On weekdays she cooked large batches of yukgaejang, taking pounds of brisket, bracken root, radishes, garlic, and bean sprouts, and bubbling them into a spicy shredded-beef soup, which she would ladle into small plastic bags and sell to office workers on their lunch breaks.”
Source: Crying in H Mart
“On weekends when everybody would go to the football games, I would be getting on a plane or driving my car across the state or across the country to go do a show somewhere and yeah so, I never thought of doing anything else.”
“On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.”
“On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white against the black coats of the marching gentlefold and fuller than the moon against the fractal spires of Westminster. They were, Arthur quickly realized, the new electric lights, which the city government was installing, avenue by avenue, square by square, in place of the dirty gas lamps that had lit London's public spaces for a century. These new electric ones were brighter. They were cheaper. They required less maintenance. And they shone farther into the dime evening, exposing every crack in the pavement, every plump turtle sheel of stone underfoot. So long to the faint chiaroscuro of London, to the ladies and gentlemen in black-on-black relief. So long to the era of mist and carbonized Newcastle coal, to the stench of the Blackfriars foundry. Welcome to the cleasing glare of the twentieth century.”
Source: The Sherlockian
“On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.”
Source: The Solitary Summer
“On what basis is the entire worldly life in existence? It is due to conflicts.”
Source: Who am I?
“On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?”
“On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
“On what foundation is the world remaining in existence? It is on the foundation of agnan (ignorance of the Self). Are the activities good or are they bad? No activity is good or bad, but if ignorance of the Self moves aside, then everything will come down. By continuing to develop good habits and removing bad habits, the foundation will not go away. As long as the foundation exists, worldly life (sansaar) will exist. How many things will you keep moving aside? Instead, You [the awakened Self] should move away. On this Akram path, the element (vastu, the Self) itself is made independent (niradhar).”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy
“On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?”
“On what he was like as a trainee, V remembered himself less as a person who did his best unconditionally and more as someone who had to "like" something to do it. He needed, therefore, the leisure to recharge and take stock just as much as he needed practice to improve. He referred to this as "the adolescence of the mind," which could be interpreted as the determination to attain personal happiness over material "success."
I tell myself a lot that I will become a better person. But I think I have to become happy myself first or somehow receive a kind of energy in order to take a step closer to becoming that better person. It's the same when I'm inspired. In the beginning of the pandemic, when our entire schedule was canceled and we could rest a bit, I suddenly had this craving to see the ocean at night. So I went with an old school friend to Sokcho in the middle of the night. We lit sparklers, recorded the sound of the ocean, and tried writing songs over the recordings of the night waves. Seeing the ocean at night when I really wanted to see it as opposed to when I really didn't was incredibly different. When my heart is satisfied this way, I take note of the emotions that come to me and write them down.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.”
“On what reasonable grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists refuse to join animal advocates in a campaign to protect increasingly threatened fish populations from the snapping teeth of humanity?”
Source: Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
“On what regards the topic of reincarnation, as with most topics that are hard to understand through a metacognitive approach, try to see it from different momentums, from the most recent to the oldest, and you will notice that you have been living many lives inside the current body as well. So it doesn't matter so much who we were or the mistakes we made as much as our capacity to change. The topic of forgiveness starts fundamentally with ourselves. It is at the core of our heart that we develop the potential to change.”
“On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.”
“On whether Blurred Lines' video is sexist: I don't. I really appreciate the people who watch out for that stuff, and I'm sensitive to those sort of things. On the surface level, the naked women dancing, I understand that can be perceived that way. But we're directed to have a sort of confidence, a sarcastic attitude about the whole situation.”
“On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable signs. From that time on, I think, dates my obsession with flies. In times of peace, when we all lied still, I made sure to sneak close up to my mother, watching very carefully that no fly would land on her, - I waved my hat over her body, flies don't like wind and movement.”
“On whose authority, who gives the right to religion, the law, medicine, the others, to choose on my behalf but without consulting me, the way, the place and the time I am allowed to die?”
Source: My and My Death: The Right to Euthanasia
“On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.”
“On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."”
“On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.”
“On wings as black as pitch Balerion plunged through the night, and when the great towers of Harrenhal appeared beneath him, the dragon roared his fury and bathed them in black fire, shot through with swirls of red.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“On wings of moonlight
Beneath the stars
Breathing time
I shall find
Your eyes
(fragment from "Beatitude", chapter Hope)”
Source: The odyssey of my lost thoughts
“On wings of wind came flying all abroad.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.”
“On winter nights he, who had never slept beneath more than a sheet, lay beneath mountains of wool and felt like a figure in an ancient myth, condemned by the gods to have a boulder pressing down upon his chest; but never mind, he would be English, even if his classmates giggled at his voice and excluded him from their secrets, because these exclusions only increased his determination, and that was when he began to act, to find masks that these fellows would recognize, paleface masks, clown-masks, until he fooled them into thinking he was okay, he was people-like-us.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE
“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet”
“On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.”
“On with the show.
These tears will dry.
On with the show.
I break and heal and burn and cry.
But on with the show.
I will never lose my will to try
To go on with this show
And love just one more time.
Always one more time.”
“On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.”
Source: Alphonsus, king of Arragon. James the Fourth. George-a-Greene, the pinner of Wakefield. Specimen of the History of George-a-Greene. Ballad of the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Poems
“On Women and Warfare - When women are forced to live without men, they discover that they can live without men. This is a lesson that no man invested in the patriarchy ever wants a woman to learn. If men realized this, they'd eliminate warfare overnight.”
“On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.”
“On working with his father in Pursuit of Happyness: It was fun having that experience with my dad 'cause he really taught me a lot of the stuff that he knows. Almost everything he knows about acting in that one movie.”
“On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions”
“On wrongs swift vengeance waits.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“On y voit comme à travers un pelle là-dedans... Hé lumières!!! Pff bande de fainéants... Ah ça, pour roupiller, vous êtes fortiche (s'esclaffe) Les chevaliers de la Table Ronde... CHEVALIERS DE MES DEUX !!! Chuis p... chuis pas roi, moi ? C'est p..., c'est pas moi le roi ?! (dégainant Excalibur) Et ça, c'est du nougat ??? Tout seul, je vais le chercher le Graal, moi, et la vie éternelle, c'est pour bibi !!! Et vous, vous irez vous gratter!!!”
Source: Kaamelott, livre 2, première partie : Épisodes 1 à 50
“On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“On your 60th, here's something philosophical
To give the old grey matter a stir
How old would you be
If you didn't know how old you were?”
“On your bad days, everyone and everything will be against you, so take it lightly and don’t be surprised and upset. On your good days, it doesn’t matter at all. In that moment, there’s only one word: you have won.”
“On your bad days, everyone and everything will be against you, so take it lightly and don’t be surprised or upset. On your good days, it doesn’t matter at all. In that moment, there’s only one word: you have won.”
“On your best day, you're only as good as I am on my worst with one arm tied behind my back.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.”
“On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.”
“On your birthday today, don't
Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect
As you've reached 60, you want to be happy,
Trust me, you'll be depressed.”
“On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices no matter what anyone thinks.”
Source: Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)
“On your darkest days do not try to see the end of the tunnel by looking far ahead. Focus only on where you are right now. Then carefully take one step at a time, by placing just one foot in front of the other. Before you know it, you will turn that corner.”