O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.”
“Once a man is converted, you shall see a change in his actions.”
“Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs”
“Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.”
“Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.”
“Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.”
“Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn’t see before.”
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”
Source: The Return
“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.”
Source: Crisis
“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.”
Source: Crisis
“Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”
“Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.”
“Once a message has been sent electronically, the writer has ceded power not just to the recipient, but to whomever the recipient chooses to forward the information. To access electronic communication is to control it. The recipient, not the writer, has power over future dissemination of the writer’s words.”
Source: UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
“Once a mistake .... Twice ... A failure .”
Source: The Kid Stays in the Picture
“Once a monk had given himself to his new monastic master he had to obey him – or face the consequences. Numerous rules begin with the formulation ‘Cursed be . . .’. Cursed were those who didn’t give all their wealth to the monastery; cursed were those who shaved without having been ordered to; cursed were those who looked at another monk with desire. If a monk ate, say, the forbidden fruit of cucumber at the wrong time then, the law informed him, ‘he sins’. At least sixty of the rules were devoted to sexual transgressions. Looking desirously at the nakedness of your neighbour while he washed was wrong; as was staring ‘with desirous feeling’ at your own nakedness; those who sat ‘close to one’s neighbour with a filthy desire in their heart’ were also ‘cursed’.
Note that last one: ‘with a filthy desire in their heart’. No sin had been committed. The mere intention of sin was now a sin in itself. In Shenoute’s monastery even thoughts were policed. ‘Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?’ the Lord had asked. The answer from the White Monastery at least was a resounding no. As this new generation of hard-line Christian preachers constantly reminded their congregations in fierce, hectoring speeches, there was nowhere to hide from the all-seeing eyes of the Lord.”
Source: The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
“Once a month, for one evening, we are free to wear our natural skins. We are on the outside as we are internally.”
Source: The Geri Rogue
“Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.”
“Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.”
Source: Wilderness Tips
“Once a month, rain or shine, I bought a delightful meal, drank something delicious, and read my book at a restaurant in London, one hundred percent alone, whether I was seeing someone or not. It was the one time I didn't have to pretend to be anyone else, didn't have to do anything for anyone. Didn't have to go on a date with someone, fizzing with hope, only to find they were third-five and hadn't dealt with their childhood traumas, didn't know how to ask a question and listen to the answer, and still weren't wearing matching socks.”
Source: The Fixer Upper
“Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus.”
“Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do.”
“Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.”
“Once a month, try something you don’t think you’d be good at. You can find such happy surprises.”
“Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.”
“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”
“Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.”
“Once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal health care, much of the population loses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic conditions.”
“Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation”
Source: Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others
“Once a new idea is conceived, it quickens in the belly of our consciousness, kicking and wiggling inside in the undeniable way a growing child kicks in the womb. Eventually, we birth something beautiful through our actions and creative endeavors.”
“Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.”
Source: Lateral Thinking: An Introduction
“Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.”
“Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.”
“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.”
“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”
“Once, a nightmare that wouldn’t end
Ate daily at my teeth.
Holes. Fractures.
Yet, life went on.”
“Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.”
“Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.”
Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems
“Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.”
Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings
“Once a partner has begun to lose interest, there is apparently little the other can do to arrest the process. Like seduction, withdrawal suffers under a blanket of reticence. The very breakdown of communication is hard to discuss, unless both parties have a desire to see it restored. This leaves the lover in a desperate situation. Honest dialogue seems to produce only irritation and smothers love in the attempt to revive it. Desperate to woo the partner back at any cost, the lover might at this point be tempted to turn to romantic terrorism, the product of irredeemable situations, a gamut of tricks (sulking, jealousy, guilt) that attempt to force the partner to return love, by blowing up (in fits of tears, rage or otherwise) in front of the loved one. The terroristic partner knows he cannot realistically hope to see his love reciprocated, but the futility of something is not always (in love or in politics) a sufficient argument against it. Certain things are said not because they will be heard, but because it is important to speak.”
Source: On Love
“Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.”
Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
“Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.”
“Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open an exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, like genuine devotion, will find a way. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth.”
Source: Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
“Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open and exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, like genuine devotion, will find a way. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth. For the deepest meaning of “belief” refers to being loyal to what the heart already loves. As people used to say, “What the heart loves is the cure.” The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart carries devotion and love. When followed far enough, simple belief can transform into wisdom; raw passions can become a greater compassion that trusts what resides in one’s heart and even in the hearts of others. Until the heart opens and the eyes begin to see there is always the danger of blindness and narrowness and the tendency to hold onto narrow ways of being.”
Source: Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
“Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.”
“Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market.”
“Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: "Are you going to have more children?" But it basically means: "Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?”
“Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.”
“Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?”
Source: Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith