O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One goes forth to search for the blooming bushes of childhood and finds autumnal creeper growing rampant where one left behind blooming roses. Fortunate is he who is able to take delight in the blaze of color of the leaves when he has overcome his disappointment. However, many set forth in search of roses and forget that winter has set in. It is those people whose souls bleed when they search for their childhood. The wind has caused the rose to shed its petals, and those people grasp at thorns. (p.16,17)”
Source: Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years
“One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.”
“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”
“One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.”
Source: John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist
“One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.”
“One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down.”
Source: TransAtlantic
“One golden day redeems a weary year”
Source: Poems
“One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.”
“One good act of vengeance deserves another.”
“One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.”
“One good break can change the trajectory of your life.”
“One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.”
“One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.”
“One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.”
“One good friendship can birth many different relationships in your life.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“One good idea applied immediately is better than five ideas memorized and stored unused in the mind.”
“One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.”
“One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty, but what is built upon Necessity; for unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.”
“One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.”
“One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."”
“One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.”
Source: Underdog
“One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.”
Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography
“One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.”
“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
Source: A Letter to Camille Jordan, of the Council of Five Hundred: Occasioned by His Report on the Priests, the Worship, and the Bells
“One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.”
Source: Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).
“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.”
“One good step breeds another one.”
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”
“One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
“One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.”
Source: Who Owns the Future?
“One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I love to listen to music, is the range that each piece is able to give you. Like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, 1975, that song is so epic. It goes in so many different places, it's and opera and it is heavy metal, and it's so crazy as it goes every which way. I kind of like films like that.”
“One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.”
“One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.”
Source: How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life
“One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!”
“One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.”
“One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.”
“One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.”
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
“One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”
“One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.”
Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts
“One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.”
“One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch.”
“One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.”
“One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.”
“One good thing about the rain is that it is not only destructive, in that it can bring dead plants back to life.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.”
“One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.”
“One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.”
Source: The Taming of a Scottish Princess