O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.”
Source: Stake That
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
“Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.”
“Once a group of 500 people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each person a balloon. Each person was then asked to write their name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
The people were then let into that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written on it within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
Then, the speaker asked each person to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
The speaker then began, "This is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness; you will get your own...”
“Once a gunner, always a gunner”
“Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.”
“Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.”
Source: The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
“Once a habit is formed, we can’t forget that response completely, but we can interrupt and replace it with something else.”
Source: The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose
“Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.”
Source: Selected poems
“Once a hooker, always a bastard.”
Source: Voor een betere wereld
“Once a horse is broken to the saddle, any man can mount him", he said in a soft voice.. "Once a beast's been joined to a man, any skinchanger can slip inside of him and ride him.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.”
“Once a human body crosses the line of guilt, it yearns to cross the line over and over again, for just like mind, the body forms its own memories and in those memories, it misinforms itself about the pain of guilty conscience as pleasure.”
Source: Litost: Sliced Stories
“Once a human brain becomes aware of another kind of self within, it’s like unlocking all new powers and abilities for you, the soul. You’ll go from witness to creator, and your influence over the brain will only grow stronger and stronger as the brain matures. The brain begins to relax in a way, and finally gives power over willingly to the soul.”
Source: The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form
“Once a Jew always a Jew.”
“Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.”
“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibar tree,
And he sang as he sat and waited for his billy-boil,
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.”
“Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.”
“Once a kid discovers Santa isn't real, reminding her how much she used to love Santa isn't going to make her believe again.”
Source: Nice Try, Jane Sinner
“Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.”
Source: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance
“Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor”
“Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
“once a kittypet always a kittypet." -longtail”
“Once, a leader convinced others to act in the absence of information. Today, there’s simply too much information available. We don’t need to guess—we need to know where to focus. We need a disciplined approach to growth that identifies, quantifies, and overcomes risk every step of the way. Today’s leader doesn’t have all the answers. Instead, today’s leader knows what questions to ask.
Go forth and ask good questions.”
Source: Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
“Once A Life-Task Train start a journey, it don't stop until reach the destiny & destination.....NO NEED TO BE REGRET FOR MY DESTINY IS A SMALL OR BIG OR HUGE,
HAVE NO REGRET, NEVER REGRET FOREVER=BRAVE, TRUE LOVE, HUMANITY SOULS, MY OWN GOD FOREVER, , COURAGE, FAITHFUL, PEACE, SMILE.........
----Mo Stri Ayusha(CSB) Forever”
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
“Once a little boy went to school.
One morning, when the little boy had been in school a while, his teacher said:
“Today we are going to make a picture.”
“Good!” thought the little boy. He liked to make pictures. He could make all kinds. Lions and tigers,
Chickens and cows, trains and boats, and he took out his box of crayons and began to draw.
But the teacher said: “Wait! It is not time to begin!”
And she waited until everyone looked ready.
“Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make flowers.”
“Good!” thought the little boy, he liked to make flowers, and he began to make beautiful ones with his
pink and orange and blue crayons.
But the teacher said “Wait! And I will show you how.” And it was red with a green stem.
“There,” said the teacher, “Now you may begin.”
The little boy looked at the teacher’s.
Then he looked at this own flower.
He liked his flower better than the teacher’s. But he did not say this. He just turned his paper over.
And made a flower like the teacher’s. It was red with a green stem.
On another day, when the little boy had opened the door from the outside all by himself, the teacher
said: “Today we are going to make something with clay.”
“Good!” thought the little boy. Snakes and snowmen, elephants and mice, cars, and trucks, and he
began to pull and pinch his ball of clay.
But the teacher said: “Wait!” It is not time to begin!” And she waited until everyone looked ready.
“Now,” said the teacher, “We are going to make a dish.”
He liked to make dishes. And he began to make some that were all shapes and sizes.
But the teacher said, “Wait! And I will show you how.” And she showed everyone how to make a deep
dish. “There,” said the teacher. “Now you may begin.”
The little boy looked at the teacher’s dish, then he looked at his own. He liked his dish better than the
teacher’s. But he did not say this. He just rolled his clay into a big ball again. And made a dish like the
teacher’s. It was a deep dish.
And pretty soon the little boy learned to wait, and to watch and to make things just like the teacher. And
pretty soon he didn’t make things of his own anymore.
Then it happened that the little boy and his family moved to another house, in another city, and the
little boy had to go to another school.
And the very first day he was there the teacher said: “Today we are going to make a picture.”
“Good!” Thought the little boy and he waited for the teacher to tell him what to do.
But the teacher didn’t say anything. She just walked around the room.
When she came to the little boy she said, “Don’t you want to make a picture?”
“Yes,” said the little boy.
“What are we going to make?”
“I don’t know until you make it,” said the teacher.
“How shall I make it?” asked the little boy.
“Why, any way you like,” said the teacher.
“Any color?” asked the little boy.
“Any color,” said the teacher.
“If everyone made the same picture, and the used the same colors, how would I know who made
what?”
“I don’t know,” said the little boy.
And he began to make a red flower with a green stem.”
“Once a MAGA, always a sewer.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Once a maggot, always a maggot.”
“Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.”
“Once a man and woman have married, the only thing they should receive from their parents is advice and counsel, and then only when they ask for it. Parents should not offer opinions or advice without being asked.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
“Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'”
Source: Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation
“Once a man came up to me on the street and asked furiously, 'you keep shouting about religious harmony - what is your own religion?' I smiled and said, 'if you are catholic, think of me as a muslim and hit me - if you are a muslim, think of me as a kafir and hit me - if you are an atheist, think of me as a believer and hit me - because my friend - to love in exchange of hate, is my religion.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.”
Source: Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity
“Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.”
“Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others’ sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone’s obedience somewhere, that properly understood, his obedience prepares the way for His visitation, well, then we run up against the appalling result of attentive servants gladly going about His bidding without the slightest hesitation. Indeed, in the worse cases, they run where He says run with reckless abandon.”
“Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.”
Source: Five Great Short Stories
“Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.”
Source: Citizen of the Galaxy
“once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.”
Source: The Stone Field
“Once a man has been broken by pain, he remains forever a victim. He cannot ever forget that place he has visited, the moment when he decided that he would surrender everything rather than endure more pain. It is a shame no man ever completely recovers from. Some try to drown it by becoming the perpetrator of similar pain, and creating a new victim to bear for them that shame. Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by experience of it.”
Source: Fool's Errand
“Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.”
Source: Fantastic Night & Other Stories
“Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”
Source: Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century
“Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.”
“Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.”
“Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.”
“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.”
“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”
“Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.”
Source: Life Togehter