O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once fallen in true love, a person can't really fall out of it, no matter what. How much ever you try to hate your better half, you'll end up falling more instead. Some part of him will always reside in your heart.”
Source: Chained: Can you escape fate?
“Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.”
“Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.”
“Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.”
“Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions.”
“Once fishing was a rabbit's foot--
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot”
Source: Poems, 1938-1949
“Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise”
“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”
Source: Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle
“Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.”
Source: A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation
“Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you?”
Source: The Difference Between You and Me
“Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.”
Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
“Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.”
Source: Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies
“Once freedom perches in the eye, nothing can stop its wings from budding, fluttering, and pushing off against the winds into the ever expanding sky.”
Source: Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny
“Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Once games required an actual place to play them, whether on the chess board or the tennis court. Even wars had battle fields. Now global positioning satellites grid the whole earth and put all of space and time in play. Warfare, they say, now looks like video games. Well don’t kid yourself. War is a video game—for the military entertainment complex. To them it doesn’t matter what happens “on the ground.” The ground—the old-fashioned battlefield itself—is just a necessary externality to the game.”
Source: Gamer Theory
“Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.”
“Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."”
“Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.”
“Once Gladiator Fights — Today Ball Games.”
“Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.”
Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
“Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.”
“Once God leads you to make a decision, don’t draw back. Instead, trust His leading, and believe He goes before you—because He does.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.”
“Once
God wrote a story
that shook the heaven to the very core.
Love was the only language used;
You and I
were the only characters.”
“Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.”
“Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew.”
“Once government undertakes to determine the whole wage structure and is thereby forced to control employment and production, there will be a far greater destruction of the present powers of the unions than their submission to the rule of equal law would involve. Under such a system the unions will have only the choice between becoming the willing instrument of governmental policy an being incorporated into the machinery of government, on the one hand, and being totally abolished, on the other. The former alternative is more likely to be chosen, since it would enable the existing union bureaucracy to retain their position and some of their personal power. But to the workers it would mean complete subjection to the control by a corporative state. The situation in most countries leaves us no choice but to await some such outcome or to retrace our steps. The present position of the unions cannot last, for they can function only in a market economy which they are doing their best to destroy.”
Source: The Constitution of Liberty
“Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care”
“Once Green
Always Clean!”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“Once grief enters your life, it remains a part of your life whether you acknowledge it or not.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.”
“Once having said no to Donald Trump, Mitt Romney can't go back and say, I changed my mind, I'm bowing to the pressure from you.”
“Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.”
“Once he accepted God into his life, Michael immediately began receiving the benefit of small miracles—“gold nuggets,” he calls them—that he perceived to be tangible proof of God’s love.”
Source: The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
“Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”
Source: The High King
“Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay."
"I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.”
“Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.”
“Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.”
“Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.”
“Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.”
“Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. “You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.”
Source: My Wolf Cowboy
“Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.”
Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel
“Once he had reached the top, he looked down on the town at his feet. Such repose, such tranquility, what a lesson in calmness! Seeing it, he was ashamed of his troubled existence. He renounced the love that brought him misery for the love of the town. It took hold of him again, suffusing his entire being as it had done during the first days of the Flemish Movement. How beautiful Bruges still was, seen from above, with its belfries, its pinnacles, its stepped gables like stairs to climb up to the land of dreams, to return to the great days of yesteryear. Among the roofs were canals fanned by the trees, quiet streets with a few women making their way in cloaks, swinging like silent bells. Lethargic peace! The sweetness of renunciation! A queen in exile, the widow of History whose only desire, basically, was to carve her own tomb.”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.”
“Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.”
“Once he had that insight, Flynn recalled in a 2007 interview, “I began to feel that I was bridging the gulf between our minds. We weren’t more intelligent than they, but we had learnt to apply our intelligence to a new set of problems. We had detached logic from the concrete, we were willing to deal with the hypothetical, and we thought the world was a place to be classified and understood scientifically rather than to be manipulated.”
Source: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“Once he had watched Liz making a silk braid. One end was pinned to the wall and on each finger of her raised hands she was spinning loops of thread, her fingers flying so fast he couldn’t see how it worked. ‘Slow down,’ he said, ‘so I can see how you do it,’ but she’d laughed and said, ‘I can’t slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn’t do it at all.”
Source: Bring Up the Bodies
“Once he left the Haywood out for her with a page number on a scrap of paper, and she opened the book to recipes for "Distillation." Jess laughed at the page George had found for her. There, between instructions to make rose water and clove water, were instructions "to make jessamine water: Take eight ounces of the jessamine flowers, clean picked from their stalks, three quarts of spirit of wine, and two quarts of water: put the whole into an alembic, and draw off three quarts. Then take a pound of sugar dissolved in two quarts of water, and mix it with the distilled liquor." George left no comment on the recipe, but she read, and read it over, aware that he was thinking of her.”
Source: The Cookbook Collector
“Once he left, you still smell him.......is love”