O Quotes
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“Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him.""What happened?" Jill asked."My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'.”
Source: Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
“Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and he's going to start thinking he has rights over you.” She knew predatory changeling men. They liked control. They particularly liked their women to submit. And Riley was one big giant hunk of testosterone-fueled Neanderthal wolf—he probably thought her submission was his right. She snorted. “Not in this lifetime.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“Ond hen foi go lew ydi Twm, Sioned,' medda fo, 'ac mae o wedi penderfynu peidio deud wrth neb am y grempog honno rhag ofn i'r llanciau 'ma ddychryn, ac y byddi di'n hen ferch ar hyd dy oes.’ Ffasiwn lol, ynte, fel taswn i'n hidio mae hen ferch fydda i, ac mae'n ddigon tebyg mai felly bydd hi hefyd, achos dydw i ddim wedi gweld neb yn debyg i Bob eto.
‘A good-hearted boy is Tom, Sioned,’ said Bob, ‘and he decided to say nothing about your cooking lest he frighten all the boys your age, and lose you any hope of a husband, and have you die an old maid.’ Little did they know, but I was likely to die an old maid in any case, for I’d found no-one the measure of Bob.”
“Onda duyduğu yakınlık; dünyaya karşı duymakta olduğu yabancılık hissini yok ediyordu.”
Source: Yalnızlaşan İnsan
“Ondanks alle pijn, angst en radicale literatuur ben ik nog steeds verliefd op de liefde.”
Source: Dat zou jij nooit toelaten
“Ondanks zijn wanhopige pogingen een wezen van de werkelijkheid te zijn, blijft de filosoof toch de slaaf van een versmade retoriek.”
Source: De wetten
“onde a noite mais escurece é em volta do pirilampo.”
Source: Vinte e zinco
“Onde a norma de conduta não é o próprio carácter, mas as tradições e costumes alheios, falta um dos principais ingredientes da felicidade humana e, de modo completo, o principal ingrediente do progresso individual e social.”
Source: On Liberty
“Onde há luz tem de haver sombra e onde há sombra é forçoso que haja luz. Não existe sombra sem luz, nem luz sem sombra. Num dos seus livros, Karl Jung disse o seguinte acerca da "sombra". É tµao má quanto nós somos positivos...quanto mais tentamos desesperadamente ser bons, maravilhosos e perfeitos, mas a sombra desenvolve uma clara determinação em ser negra, má e destrutiva....a verdade é que tentamos muito para além das nossas forçar tornarmos-nos perfeitos, a sombra desce ao inferno e convertes-se no diabo. Porque do onto de vista da natureza e da verdade é igualmente pecaminoso o factor de alguém tentar tornar-se superior ou inferior a si próprio.”
“Onde o coração viveu é o que foi vivido.”
“Onde terá ficado aquela criança que apenas conhece da fotografia e cuja memória há muito se perdeu na sedimentação dos dias? Não se recorda quando se separaram. Quando um deixou de ser o outro. Onde está nele aquela criança? O homem que é hoje é o resultado de todos os dias daquela criança? E se os dias tivessem sido outros, seria outro homem? Se ele pudesse apagar alguns dias, seriam todos os outros suficientes para para ele ser quem hoje é? Apagar alguns dias. Apagar um dia, que fosse aquele dia. Será o homem apenas o conjunto das suas memórias ou será antes a soma de todos os seus esquecimentos?”
Source: O Perfumista
“Onde você escondeu todos os dias que desperdiçamos juntos?”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Onde you bid farewell to discipline you day goodbye to success”
Source: Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager
“Onder invloed van het marxisme ontstond in de wereldgeschiedenis ook nog een zesde vorm van arbeidsdeling, de nomisch technische arbeidsverdeling. Die werd voor het eerst in de Sovjet-Unie ingevoerd in 1917 en verdween er met de Val van de Muur in 1989. De werkende bevolking werd er wijsgemaakt dat het een vorm van nomische arbeidsverdeling was die spontaan was ontstaan en niet door de overheid werd afgedwongen. Maar in werkelijkheid ging het niet om communisme, wel integendeel om staatskapitalisme. Op papier heerst er nog steeds communisme in de Volksrepubliek China, maar dat komt dan enkel maar omdat papier er zeer gewillig is (geen wonder, want het papier werd juist in China uitgevonden). Harde vormen van communisme zijn na de Val van de Muur nog een korte tijd blijven voortbestaan in Cuba en in Albanië, maar zijn ondertussen ook daar verdwenen. Enkel in het totaal geïsoleerde Noord-Korea is de nomisch technische arbeidsverdeling tot op vandaag blijven voortbestaan. Tot een afsterven van de staat, zoals Marx voorspelde, heeft het zeker niet geleid, wel tot een verpletterend staatsapparaat gecontroleerd door de gewetenloze machtsclique rond de vereerde Leider.”
Source: Postmoderniteit: Onzekerheid & Onveiligheid
“Onderscheid, tussen onderscheid maken, mag een meesteres zijn gegeven, maar niet, enkel een leerlinge.”
“Ondertussen had het Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden de dienstplichtwet verlengd. Dat was het goede nieuws. Alleen: dat besluit was genomen met een verschil van welgeteld één stem.”
Source: Wisselwachter
“Onderzoekers concludeerden dat narcisme en zelfwaardering niet hetzelfde zijn. Narcisten voelen zich verheven boven anderen, maar zijn niet altijd tevreden met zichzelf. Ze willen vooral graag bewijzen beter te zijn dan anderen en proberen constant bewondering af te dwingen.”
Source: De narcistische wereld ontvlucht
“One
person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
your power to change things.”
“One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.”
“One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for”
“One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.”
“One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit!”
“One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.”
“One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.”
Source: The nature of the universe
“One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton
“One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.”
“One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then Germany, again, at the forefront of progress. Then America in the '80s, when women were closing the pay gap. And Japan, same thing.”
“One [reality] is that I am responsible for my attitude. I can be in prison, and I happen to get a chance to go outside. I can look at the mud, or I can look at the stars. I am the one who decides which way to look. That is true for every one of us.”
“One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a high one? The answer seemed to be yes and no.”
“One: A Book Is A Universe and the Universe is a Book. Inside a book, any Physiks or Magical Laws or Manners or Histories may hold sway. A book is its own universe and while in it, you must play by their rules. More or less. Some of the more modern novels are lenient on this point and have very few policemen to spare. This is why sometimes, when you finish a book, you feel strange and woozy, as though you have just woken up. Your body is getting used to the rules and your own universe again. And your own universe is just the biggest and longest and most complicated book ever written—except for all the other ones. This is also why books along the walls make a place feel different—all those universes, crammed into one spot! Things are bound to shift and warp and hatch schemes!
Two: Books Are People. Some are easy to get along with and some are shy, some are full of things to say and some are quiet, some are fanciful and some are plainspoken, some you will feel as though you've known forever the moment you open the cover, and some will take years to grow into. Just like people, you must be introduced properly and sit down together with a cup of something so that you can sniff at each other like tomcats but lately acquainted. Listen to their troubles and share their joys. They will have their tempers and you will have yours, and sometimes you will not understand a book, nor will it understand you—you can't love all books any more than you can love every stranger you meet. But you can love a lot of them. And the love of a book is a precious, subtle, strange thing, well worth earning, And just like people, you are never really done with a book—some part of it will stay with you, gently changing the way you see and speak and know.
Three: People Are Books. This has two meanings. The first is: Every person is a story. They have a beginning and a middle and an end (though some may have sequels and series).They have motifs and narrative tricks and plot twists and daring escapes and love lost and love won. The rules of books are the rules of life because a book must be written by a person alive, and an alive person will usually try to tell the truth about the world, even if they dress it up in spangles and feathers.
The other meaning is: When you read a book, it is not only a story. It is never only a story. Exciting plots may occur, characters suffer and triumph, yes, It is a story. But it is also a person speaking to you, directly to you. A person far away, perhaps in time, perhaps in space, perhaps both. A person who wanted to say something so loud that everyone could hear it. A book is a time-travelling teleportation machine. And there's millions and millions of them! When you read a book, you have a conversation with the person who wrote it. And that conversation is never quite the same twice. Every single reader has a different chat, because they are different people with different histories and ideas in their heads. Why, you cannot even have the same conversation with the same book twice! If you read a book as a child, and again as a Grown-Up, it will be something altogether other. New things will have happened to you, new folk will have come into your life and taught you wild and wonderful notions you never thought of before. You will not be the same person—and neither will the book. When you read, know that someone somewhere wrote those very words just for you, in hopes that you would find something there to take with you in your own travels through time and space.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
“One a' them rules is don't go trusting another man's path...People do it, they do what their mommies and daddies did, they make them same mistakes, they have them same joys and hurts, they just repeating. Trees don't grow exactly where their momma is; ain't no room...I weren't following no one up through life.”
Source: The Wolf Road
“One a very basic level, you are what you remember - your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall.”
“One—about cigarettes—I was pleased to see that anticigarette ad on the back issue of Hustler. I'm more offended by seeing ads for cigarettes in magazines than pictures of vaginas, because one kills and the other gives life—and I think that's an important difference.”
Source: Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in Counter-Culture
“One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.”
Source: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
“One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.”
“One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.”
“One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up”
“One accumulates or one gets accumulated.”
“One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
“One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing”
“One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.”
“One achieves the Self-state (swa-artha) while searching for the highest truth (param-artha). The search for the highest truth is solely for the purpose of attaining the Self, and once the Self is attained there is no need to search for the highest truth.”
“One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.”
“One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge.”
“One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.”
Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry
“One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust.”
“One act of courage can inspire a thousand hearts, echoing across time long after the moment has passed. Bravery is not measured in grand gestures, but in the quiet decisions to stand firm in the face of fear.”