O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.”
“Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.”
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.”
Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984”
“Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.”
“Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.”
Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.”
“Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.”
“Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest.'”
“Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.”
“Once someone asked, when I was present, what constituted the greatest pleasure in love. Someone replied, naturally: in receiving. Another: in giving. Someone said: the pleasure of pride! someone else: the ecstasy of humility! All these muckers making like the Imitation of Christ. Finally, an impudent utopian was found who insisted that the greatest pleasure of love was in forming new citizens for the fatherland. Me, I said: what is uniquely, supremely voluptuous about love lies in the certainty of doing evil.”
“Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?”
“Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.”
“Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old”
“Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.”
“Once someone has been traumatized again and again by someone who claimed to love them, once an abuser has warped the victim's reality and caused him or her to mistrust their perceptions through gaslighting, once a victim has been made to believe he or she is worthless, they are already traumatically bonded to their abusers. It takes a great deal of professional support, validation and resources in order for victims to detach from their abusers and begin to heal.”
Source: Power: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse
“Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.”
“Once someone loves you that much, loves you more than you deserve, you can’t go back to being loved the normal way.”
Source: The Night Mark
“Once someone tells me their functional position, I, somewhat naïvely, probe a bit deeper. I ask, “So what does that mean a typical day looks like ... what do you spend the most time doing?” This is where I get into the far more interesting and revealing parts of each person’s story.
... asking someone to reconstruct yesterday is a better lens into their happiness than simply asking them if they are happy overall.”
Source: Life's Great Question: Discover How You Contribute To The World
“Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.”
“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”
Source: White Cat
“Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.”
“Once something becomes infrastructure, it stops being gentle.”
Source: Threadborn Echo
“Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.”
“Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.”
“Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.”
“Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.”
“Once something is no longer illicit, punishable, pathologized, or used as lawful basis for raw discrimination or acts of violence, that phenomenon will no longer be able to represent or deliver on subversion, the subcultural, the underground, the fringe, in the same way”
Source: The Argonauts
“Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.”
“Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.”
“Once spun,
The silken thread of all our aspirations
Remains intact,
It can never be broken.”
“Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“Once started on a task that could be finished in one effort, she would accomplish it efficiently enough; but she was absentminded about messages, or remembering to return to a task only partially completed.”
Source: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
“Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.”
“Once status, self-image, and the opinions of others are prioritized above all else, players become increasingly on edge. Performance spaces are seen as dangerous, and players feel threatened by the possibility of not being enough. Once they feel this danger, their playfulness decreases.”
Source: B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
“Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as you see it. But actually, you should be more appreciative of what needs to be said. I don't think that's ever an excuse to say something you don't believe is true - but sometimes the emphasis has to be different. Well, if I'm talking to an audience of hardline atheists, I'll be trying to unsettle them a bit more, whereas, if I'm speaking to an audience of believers, I'll be giving them more of the pros of atheism. It's about having a sensitivity to context.”
“Once such emotional engagement has been created - demand will always follow - yet one could say the "side product of your effort is demand" the primary purpose is to create love.”
“Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.”
“Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.”
Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk
“Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“Once taken by her, you glowed
And you drank her poisons, content.
Because all the stars seemed to grow,
And fields had a different scent,
Autumn fields.”
Source: Poems of Akhmatova
“Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.”
“Once that Gauntlet is on, as the poster of Doctor Strange says, "the impossibilities are endless."”
“Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
“Once that pause between a 'Message' and 'Send' grows long, it can hardly be reversed.”
“Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor”
“Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.”
“Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.”
“Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'”
“Once the 3rd eye is activated, someone will look for the fourth eye. Humans cannot be satisfied with anything. We love to explore and learn daily.”