O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.”
“One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.”
“One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.”
Source: Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks, 1982-1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World
“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!”
Source: A Room With A View: England Literature
“One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the orientation he brought to bear on his focus, has some causal connection to the circumstances of his life.”
“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”
“One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.”
“One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.”
“One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.”
“One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.”
“One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.”
Source: The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works
“One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.”
“One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.”
“One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.”
“One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent”
“One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.”
“One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.”
Source: The Perseids and Other Stories
“one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.”
“One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.”
“One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.”
“One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.”
“One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.”
“One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.”
“One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.”
“One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.”
“One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.”
Source: The Little French Girl
“One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer”
“One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.”
“One doesn't mind adverse criticism so long as it isn't stupid.”
“One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.”
“One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.”
“one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.”
“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
“One doesn't remain a teenager forever.”
“One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.”
“One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.”
“One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.”
“One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.”
“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to you by others, charitable refuse of their thoughts, so many ounces of stale bread of life a day.”
Source: Lolly Willowes; or, the loving huntsman
“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.”
“One doesn’t question a miracle.”
“One dog got makeup applied to its face, lipstick and blue eye shadow. It was a white-faced dog, so the makeup showed up well. We liked to have an impact. When we were done, the lipstick went back into some mother's Fendi handbag. We watched her apply it, unaware. That was satisfying.”
Source: A Children's Bible
“One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.”
Source: One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder
“One door away from Heaven,
We live each day and hour.
One door away from Heaven,
But it lies beyond our power
To open the door to Heaven
And enter when we choose.
One door away from Heaven,
And the key is ours to lose.
One door away from Heaven,
But, oh, the entry dues.
—The Book of Counted Sorrows”
Source: One Door Away from Heaven
“One door closes and another one opens.”
“One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.”
“One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream.”
“One down, fifteen to go.”