O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.”
“Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.”
“Once you taste God's real blessings and His glory there's no turning back no matter how hard the journey can be you know peaceful breakthrough will locate you when the time is right.”
“Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.”
“Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.”
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”
Source: Emile
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.”
“Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.”
Source: Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel
“Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver”
Source: The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.”
“Once you think about it, aren't the people who are living their lives without worrying about other people's opinions having more fun than those judging them?”
“Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.”
“Once you think it though, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.”
Source: Let It Snow
“Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.”
“Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.”
“Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are going to be able to do anything useful with your anger.”
“Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”
Source: Extras
“Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.”
“Once you touch that place of inner peace within you, magic begins on the outside.”
“Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.”
Source: Anatomy of Britain
“Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.”
“Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.”
“Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.”
Source: Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
“Once you trap yourself within walls, the outside world will never feel the same — just like a bird confined to a cage.”
“Once you truly get the sensual world, everything else starts to become noise.”
“Once you truly love, nothing else will do.
So now that you're gone I will choose nothing else.”
“Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.”
“Once you try, golf is the hardest game you'll ever play.”
“Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.”
“Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.”
“Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.”
“Once you understand and appreciate nature's beauty and complexity, you can protect it and get the most from it.”
“Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.”
“Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.”
“Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.”
“Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.”
“Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.”
“Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.”
“Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.”
“Once you understand that you are the one stoking the flames, you will find the strength to walk away from it.”
Source: Daily Motivational Quotes: Inspirational & life-changing thoughts, Volume 4
“Once you understand the destruction taking place, unless you do something to change it, even if you never intended to cause such destruction, you become involved in a strategy of tragedy. You can continue to be engaged in that strategy of tragedy, or you can design and implement a strategy of change”
“Once you understand the economics of the Austrian School and the philosophy of liberty in the tradition of Rothbard, you never look at anything – not the state, the media, the central bank, the political class, nothing – the same way again.”
“Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.”
“Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.”
“Once you understand the power of meditation, you don’t even need to engage in it as a practice. You don’t need to then set aside a particular time of the day for meditation as an activity. In that state, you are that; you are meditative in everything that you do. There is a mindful, immersive quality to your Life then. Surely, debilitating emotions and disturbing thoughts will come calling, but your awareness, your mindfulness, helps you to not pick them up. You see them, you feel them, but you let them pass. This discerning ability to choose wisely is the biggest gift that meditation delivers. This is what helps you to be happy despite your circumstances.”
“Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Once you understand the process of corporate globalization, you have to see that what happened in Argentina, the devastation of Argentina by the IMF, is part of the same machine that is destroying Iraq. Both are efforts to break open and to control markets. And so Argentina is destroyed by the chequebook, and Iraq is destroyed by the cruise missile. If the chequebook won't work, the cruise missile will. Hell hath no fury like a market scorned.”
Source: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations With Arundhati Roy