O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.”
Source: The Theory of Clouds
“One death has already been attributed to the Glow Cloud.
But listen, it's probably nothing. If we had to shut down the town for every mysterious event that at least one death could be attributed to, we'd never have time to do anything, right?”
Source: Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.”
Source: Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
“One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“One decision can change everything. I’m living proof.”
Source: Breaking Free: A Journey from Chaos to Clarity
“One decision can change your life forever.”
“One decision make differences, so make one.”
“One Decision Makes All the Difference”
Source: He Loves Me Not: Buried Tears of Betrayed Love
“One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves.”
“One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.”
“One default Item of success is risk, those who take the risk will get the dish”
“One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.”
Source: George Orwell: A Life in Letters
“One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.”
Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules
“One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.”
“One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.”
Source: Conversations with Rita Dove
“One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.”
“One definition of success is achieving what your haters don't want you to achieve. Them wanting you not to achieve it means it's worth a lot.”
“One definition of the wicked is that they will resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve their ends. Therefore, if those who oppose wickedness don't learn the art of war, they will be helpless.”
“One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.”
“One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at the Equator to virtually nothing at the poles.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“One degree turns out to be enough to really unhinge all sorts of earth's ecosystems.”
“One delegate questioned him: "Will it not be done by fraud and discrimination?"
"By fraud, no. By discrimination, yes," Glass retorted.”
Source: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”
“One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.”
“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.”
“One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.”
“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory. You must remember this.”
Source: Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders
“One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God”
“One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.”
Source: The Dice Man
“One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.”
“One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.”
Source: Complete Poems
“One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.”
“One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is exactly the wrong word to describe this chapter. This chapter will make nothing clear; it will raise many questions; and it may even contain a surprise or two. But I say we call it the denouement anyway because the words sounds so sophisticated and French.”
Source: The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series
“One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning popular and superficial to be equally damning adjectives. This is related to the current tendency in the biological sciences to label every subdivision of science with a name derived from the Greek. "Ecology" is erudite and profound; while "natural history" is popular and superficial. Though, as far as I can see, both labels apply to just about the same package of goods.”
“One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn
“One did not allow the mad to roam free, lest they hurt others or themselves.”
Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
“One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.”
“One did not fully exist without the other.”
Source: Skylarking
“One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force acted righteously, and he had known more than one sentient who had acted selfishly, even cruelly, and used belief to justify doing so.”
Source: Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills
“One did not need to know why the ovens were so ugly, so very ugly. A tragically burly insect eight feet tall and made out of rust. Who would want to cook with an oven such as this? Pulleys, plungers, grates and vents were the organs of the machine… The patients, all dead, were delivered on a stretcher-like apparatus. The air thick and warped with the magnetic heat of creation. Thence to the Chamber, where the bodies were stacked carefully and, in my view, counter-intuitively, with babies and children at the base of the pile, then the women and the elderly, and then the men. It was my stubborn belief that it would be better the other way round, because the little ones surely risked injury under that press of naked weight. But it worked. Sometimes, my face rippling peculiarly, with smiles and frowns, I would monitor proceedings through the viewing slit. There was usually a long wait while the gas was invisibly introduced by the ventilation grilles. The dead look so dead. Dead bodies have their own language.”
Source: Time's Arrow
“One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.”
Source: Envy
“One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.”
Source: Kinflicks
“One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.”
Source: The Edmund Wilson Reader
“One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.”
Source: The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry
“One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.”
Source: The fall
“One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy”
“One dies without regret if there is one in the whole world a "bosom friend," or one who "knows his heart.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.”
“One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.”
“One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.”