O Quotes
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“O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still. Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes, Confusions multiplied; From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide. Until this tyranny be overpast, Thy hand will hold me fast; What though the tumult of the storm increase, Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.”
Source: Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael
“O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.”
“O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
The hills tell each other, and the listening
Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)
“O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.”
Source: New Collected Poems
“O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!”
“O thrush, your song is passing sweet,
But never a song that you have sung
Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
When my dear love and I were young.”
“O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!”
“O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“O Time! It may be pitiless, or sad,
And now and it brutally shakes the earth.
If Time intends to annihilate you, my lad,
Go boldly forward, and fight for all you're worth.”
“O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,
That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;
Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,
Their names without a record are forgot,
Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust
Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;
But he whose name is graved in the white stone
Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
“O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.”
“O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“O time! swift devourer of all created things!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!”
Source: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: October 1833-december 1834
“O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!”
Source: The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno ... Newly Translated Into English Verse [by Thomas W. Parsons].
“O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.”
“O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!”
“O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)”
Source: XAIPE
“O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.”
Source: Song of Myself: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892
“O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“O todo es amor,
o no hay nada
O somos amantes,
o no somos nada.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“O toque de alguém, dizia ele, é o verdadeiro lado de cá da pele. Quem não é tocado não se cobre nunca, anda como nu. De ossos à mostra.”
Source: O Filho de Mil Homens
“O trabalho de Bach é impedir que o espaço fuja. Que fuja para o neutro. O trabalho de Aossê [Pessoa] é procurar saber o que é esse que vem do que sente, e corre para onde não mais se sente.”
Source: Lisboaleipzig 1 - o encontro inesperado do diverso
“O trabalho de um compositor talentoso é criar expectativas e depois ou satisfazê-las ou frustrá-las. Mas o compositor não pode nem deve tentar um empolgamento constante. Como em qualquer história que se conte, ou mesmo num espetáculo de fogo de artifício, acrescentam-se algumas passagens mais calmas, deliberadamente, para que os momentos importantes causem mais efeito.”
Source: How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
“O trabalho do homem é efémero e esvai-se como a espuma do mar... Sim, é isto mesmo. Neste planeta, o homem domesticou os animais úteis e destruiu os nocivos. Desbravou a terra, desembaraçou-a da vegetação selvática. Depois, um dia, desaparece, e a onda da vida primitiva reflui sobre ele, varrendo a obra humana.”
“O trabalho foi aquilo que o homem achou de melhor para nada fazer da sua vida.”
“O trabalho tem o potencial de ser nossa contribuição genuína ao futuro. Para isso, é preciso entendê-lo como ferramenta de cocriação do mundo. Entender que cada pessoa, com seu papel (que vai muito além de produzir e consumir), desempenha uma função importante nessa grande rede. Logo, em vez de abrir mão dos nossos sonhos para pagar contas, ou ver o trabalho como uma prisão diária cuja única finalidade é o "ganha-pão", devemos permitir que nossa autenticidade direcione nossas escolhas profissionais.”
Source: Como salvar o futuro: Ações para o presente
“O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.”
Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier
“O trecho está grifado no livro. Nele, o professor Schianberg dá voz a Nietzsche — “Há sempre um pouco de loucura no amor, mas há sempre um pouco de razão na loucura” —, para depois contestá-lo, lembrando que na loucura dos amores contrariados não há espaço nenhum para a razão, apenas para mais loucura.”
Source: Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios
“O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.”
“O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.”
“O Trono, se existia, existia por consentimento da Revolução - Revolução que impusera a coroa na fronte da varonil princesa e lha poderia retirar - ou a ela, ou à sua descendência desde que ao direito histórico da dinastia se salvaguardava o direito legal da constituição e a legitimidade do Princípio cedia à legalidade do Facto. Adivinham-se as consequências. E se as sentiu D. Maria II em sua própria vida, mais dolorosamente as sentiria El-Rei D. Carlos, sem mêdo, ao cair espingardeado no Terreiro do Paço em nome da mesma liberdade que obrigava a embarcar em Sines, pobre como Job, o último soberano legítimo de Portugal.”
Source: Processo dum Rei
“O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure”
Source: Collected Poems
“O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence.”
“O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot
“O tu, stella randagia, astro disperso,
che forse cerchi, nel tuo folle andare,
la porta onde fuggir dall’universo!”
“O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.”
“O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.”
Source: The Dream: And Other Poems
“O tyrant love, when held by you,
We may to prudence bid adieu.
[Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]”
“O tăcere de frunze care-și scad glasul de vară învățând șoaptele toamnei.”
Source: Golia
“O umbiguismo e a soberba europeias têm cegado os decisores, esvaziado a natureza política e até a tática da integração, respondendo mal às angústias de quem cá está ou de quem quer para cá vir.”
Source: O Lado B da Europa
“O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?”
“O universo conspira para que eu coma rosquinhas de chocolate amanteigadas.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto