O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew”
Source: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
“One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.”
Source: Educated dogs of to-day
“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”
“One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person”
“One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“One does not kill by anger but by laughter.”
Source: The Vision of Nietzsche
“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”
Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950
“One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“One does not know where love will take you.”
Source: Beach Music
“One does not know yet whether Christ was
God or the Devil -
Buddha is more reassuring.”
Source: Reality Sandwiches
“One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.”
“One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.”
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.”
“One does not learn how to die by killing others.”
“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.”
“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”
Source: Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)
“One does not make revolutions by halves.”
“One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.”
“One does not marry art. One ravishes it.”
“One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
Source: The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic
“One does not merely challenge the dominant orthodoxy.”
“One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.”
“One does not miss what one has never had.”
“One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.”
“One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“One does not need to lock up that which is not dangerous.”
Source: Hades
“One does not need to look too deeply into the transcripts of witch trials before uncovering tortured women speaking of cavorting with everyday animals. (There does seem to be a size limit; one can converse with a devil in the form of a dog, but not a moose and surely not an elephant.)”
Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
“one does not often speak of what one cares for most of all.”
Source: The Birds On Its Journey
“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”
Source: Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.”
Source: Dinner at Antoine's
“One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.”
“One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“One does not play memories of music; one plays music itself. And lifetimes, from beginning to end, are as sheets of music, ready to be played.”
Source: Light from Uncommon Stars
“One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.”
“One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.”
Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure
“One does not question a miracle.”
Source: Slumdog Millionaire (MM MTI)
“One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.”
Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance
“One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.”
“One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.”
Source: The decline of the West
“one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us”
“One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.”
“One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.”
Source: Concord Days
“One does not see ‘what is there’ and sees ‘what is not there’, that is called moha (illusory vision).”
“One does not seek love,' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own”
Source: The Treasure of Ravenwood
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
“One does not set fire to a world which is already lost”