O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.”
“One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.”
“One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.”
“One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.”
“One can't believe impossible things.”
“One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.”
“One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.”
“One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.”
“One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.”
“One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.”
“One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.”
“One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!”
“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
Source: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
“One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.”
Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
“One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.”
“One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.”
“One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.”
“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”
Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.”
Source: The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith
“One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.”
“One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.”
“One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable”
Source: Wild Talents
“One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.”
“One can't live on love alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.”
“One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.”
Source: Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
“One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.”
“One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.”
“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”
Source: The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear
“One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.”
Source: The Fountainhead
“One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.”
“One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words”
“One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe
“One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS.”
“One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.”
“One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.”
Source: A Book of Words
“One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.”
Source: The Writings in Prose and Verse: A book of words
“One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.”
“One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.”
“One can't reach the Truth but through Love.”
“One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.”
Source: Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon
“One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.”
“One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things one can't do without a lover, so the loss of the lover is like an amputation and the patient goes into shock.”
Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven... Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies... And as you can't get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together.”
“One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.”
“One can't teach a cat not to catch birds”
“One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.”
“One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.”
“One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism”