O Quotes
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“Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.”
“Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment”
Source: HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
“Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will. Halt raised an eyebrow. "At least I found a use for that damned helmet," he said, and the smile disappeared from Erak's face. "Yes. I'm not sure what I'm going to tell Gordoff about that," he said. "He made me promise I'd look after that helmet. It's his favorite-a real family heirloom." "Well it certainly has a lived in feel to it now," Halt told him, and Will noticed there was a hint of malicious pleasure in his eye.”
“Once again, everything had changed on them. Perhaps it was all this changing that made her sad.”
Source: Homecoming
“Once again, Finn Rimes slathering on the charm, rich and creamy as fresh-churned butter, laying it on thick to win everyone over but her. Simone bit back a gag at all the verbal dairy.”
Source: Stirring Up Love
“Once again he could hear the planet’s joints and lifeblood. Stirrings in the stone. Ancient events. Here, time was like water. The tiniest creatures were his fathers and mothers. The fossils were his children. It made him into remembrance itself. He let his bare palms ricochet upon the walls, drawing in the heat and the cold, the sharp and the smooth. Plunging, galloping, he pawed at the flesh of God. This magnificent rock. This fortress of their being. This was the Word. Earth. Moment by moment, step by step, he felt himself becoming prehistoric. It was a blessed release from human habits. In this vast, capillaried monastery, through these openings and fretted spillways and yawning chthonic fistulae, drinking from pools of water older than mammal life altogether, memory was simply memory. It was not something to be marked on calendars or stored in books or labeled in graphs or drawn on maps. You did not memorize memory any more than you memorized existence. He remembered his way deeper by the taste of the soil and by the drag of air currents that had no cardinal direction. He left behind the cartography of the Holy Land and its entry caves through Jebel el Lawz in the elusive Midian. He forgot the name of the Indian Ocean as he passed beneath it. He felt gold, soft and serpentine, standing from the walls, but no longer recognized it as gold. Time passed, but he gave up counting it. Days? Weeks? He lost his memory even as he gained it.”
Source: The Descent
“Once again," he said, "we have failed pathetically. Quite pathetically."
"That," said Ford quietly, "is because we don't care enough. I told you."
He swung his feet up onto the intrument panel and picked fitfully at something on one of his fingernails.
"But unless we determine to take action," said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, "then we shall be destroyed; we shall all die. Surely we care about that?"
"Not enough to want to get killed over it," said Ford. He put on a sort of hollow smile and flipped it around the room at anyone who wanted to see it.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“Once again I am being held hostage for my vagina," She sighs. "What is it with you aliens? Can't a girl just make her own decisions for once? Is that so freaking hard?"
"The khui has decided," I tell her.
She gives a small shake of her head. "It's always someone else's decision. When's it going to be mine?"
I watch her, frustrated. There is no decision to be made. The khui has decided. And yet... I don't like the way her words make me feel.
Or the defeat in her voice. Liz is a fighter. I don't want her to give up.”
Source: Barbarian Alien
“Once again I am riding my bike on the streets of loneliness. Your thoughts are the anchor that make me ride fast yet not lose my balance. You had promised me that you would never leave me alone. But I do know that the love that you have bestowed on me is more precious than the biggest pearls discovered by the sailors on their voyages of prosperity. I too sail on myriad voyages in the ocean of my life. And your love holds my ship steady in those turbulent waters of life when even the moon does not show her face to the world!”
“Once again I am riding my bike on the streets of loneliness. Your thoughts are the anchor that make me ride fast yet not lose my balance. You had promised me that you would never leave me alone. But I do know that the love that you have bestowed on me is more precious than the biggest pearls discovered by the sailors on their voyages of prosperity. I too sail on myriad voyages in the ocean of my life. And your love holds my ship steady on those turbulent waters of life when the moon even does not show her face to me!”
“Once again
I chose to love you
Though trust is broken
To get my lost heart...”
Source: Your Smile Conquers My Heart
“Once again I entered the realms of terror that only a child can know. I realized that the shadow that leered at me from out of the dark might not be dispelled by bright light.”
“Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.”
Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution
“Once again, I felt as I needed to flee or I’d die. That was how my life was panning out.”
Source: Evolving to Grace
“Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.”
Source: Sir Apropos of Nothing
“Once again, I find myself looking forward to your cooking...
... Erina.
But don't worry. I have already prepared a bucket for when it fails to reach my standards."
"Oh, you needn't worry about that, Mother. I will be serving you a large slice of humble pie to go with dinner.”
Source: 食戟のソーマ 36 [Shokugeki no Souma 36]
“Once again, I found myself alone.
The darkness enveloped me like a menacing blanket, and I felt helpless. But when I looked up at the sky, the moon shone brightly, a constant presence in the night sky, watching over me.
I wished I could go up there to be with the moon.
Perhaps then, I would no longer feel alone.”
Source: His Savior
“Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help.”
“Once again, I'm unnerved by the feeling that Charlie Lastra sees right through my carefully pressed outermost layers.
"I'm perfectly happy with peace and quiet," I insist.
"Maybe. Or maybe, Nora Stephens, I can read you like a book."
I scoff. "Because you're so socially intelligent."
"Because you're like me.”
Source: Book Lovers
“Once again I must ask too much of you, Harry.”
“Once again, I stared at him: only this stare was different from those other stares. A man was pressing me to do something I did not want to do, and pressing me in a manner he would never have applied to another man: by telling me that I didn't know what I wanted [...] It was as though an invisible membrane had fallen between me and my lover, one fine enough to be penetrated by desire but opaque enough to obscure human fellowship. The person on the other side of the membrane seemed as unreal to me as I felt myself to be to him [...] the memory of that fine, invisible separation haunted me; and more often than I like to remember, I saw it glistening as I gazed into the face of a man who loved me but was not persuaded that I needed what he needed to feel like a human being.”
Source: The Odd Woman and the City
“Once again, I tried to explain. I was my own lawyer, and I represented and tried to defend my innocence, but as always, it fell on deaf ears.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“Once again, I was conscious of the paradox of the compound: that here, at the heart of the unfolding events, we could catch no more than a glimpse of them. Fires were burning all over Dili; the smell was in our nostrils from the moment we wok up, and occasionally we could see columns of smoke. But the flames themselves, and the faces of the fire starters, were invisible. At the computers in the Unamet press room, we waited in turn to log on to the news websites and learn what was happening to us.”
Source: In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos
“Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls.”
Source: My Name Is Barbra
“Once again I've been invited to the program WET. I gathered my thoughts and experiences and had the best time, these girls are so smart and mature and could teach me a thing or two. Once again I came out feeling good, it was the best therapy session ever. Damn these girls are good!”
“Once again, in my greatest hour of despair, I seek refuge in her chaos.”
“Once again, it is difficult to start from the premise of mindless evolution and end with the idea that humans are anything more than organisms bent on preserving and passing on their DNA. The fact that humans not only pursue art, philosophy, and science, but also exult in those things more than reproduction cannot easily be explained through materialism.”
Source: Christ-Centered Apologetics: Sharing the Gospel with Evidence
“Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air”
“Once again, Jesus turns to the crowds. ‘Oh, by the way, souls don’t exist, despite the rumours. I was merely being poetic. The fact remains that you are mainly water — 60-70% I believe — blood, guts, bones, and some of you have brains. Your soul was invented by those living loved ones to help justify the dead’s ethereal journey to the afterlife. There is no journey. Life itself is a dead-end. And, by association, the afterlife doesn’t exist. Sorry to be a bit of a party-pooper. Mother insisted that I put you all in the picture. Moral of the story? Enjoy life while you can, and never take an extra minute for granted, because Mother can grin and bare her razor teeth whenever and whenever she likes.”
Source: Finding Jesus
“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
“Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,
bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,
seizes me.”
“Once again, mules and their attendants would give him company. Often he thought he and the mules had no difference. Both carried other's loads.”
Source: Hulaki
“Once again, my dad knew something I didn't. Looking back, I realize it wasn't just I was Asian. I was a loud-mounthed, brash, broken Asian who had no respect for authority in any form, wether it was a parent, teacher, or country. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either. (148)”
Source: Fresh Off the Boat
“Once again my heart feels an ache
Once again my pen saves me...”
“Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn’t make any difference.”
Source: Lost in Care: The True Story of a Forgotten Child
“Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.”
“Once again, she had been held back by her fears: by that one, defining event sixteen years ago and all its ripples and repercussions. And now, not only was it stopping her from going wherever she wanted, spreading her wings as much as she craved, it had lost her the one man she’d felt like she could love.”
Source: The Staycation
“Once again she had spent all her monthly savings on books! She was a true bookworm, not a promising feature at all given that it had zero value in the eyes of a boy.”
Source: The Bastard of Istanbul
“Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”
“Once again, she was free. Once again, she found peace. It was music that freed her soul from the dungeon of her mind.”
Source: The Illusions of Hope
“Once again, she was struck by how different Lord Damien was compared to Lord Raoul. His words had made her feel exposed; Damien's made her feel beautiful. Like a lady.”
Source: Mark of the Raven
“Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.”
Source: Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature
“Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“Once again standing on past route.”
“Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous.”
“Once again, the Empire of Russia has defeated the nation. It is important to recognize it now, when Russia is suffering a moral, military and, broadly speaking, civilizational defeat in Ukraine. The attack on Ukraine is a fiasco of the still-born idea of ‘the Russian world,’ russky mir, as one lot of Russian speakers bomb, torture and shoot other Russian speakers; as they burn Orthodox churches and demolish Russian-speaking cities of Mariupol and Kherson. This is not a war for Russia but for the re-establishment of the Empire, a war of revenge on Ukrainians (it is even crueller, because they are considered ‘one of us,’ ‘our brothers’) for daring to think that they could break away and follow their own path.”
Source: A War Made in Russia
“Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.”
“Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!”
“Once again the Scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark, the plumb line steadies us and steers us clear of what is happening in the world and gives us a glimpse of history and politics, economics and daily experiences from God's point of view. Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight not found in other devotional materials.”
Source: The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture