O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.”
“One good turn asketh another.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“One good turn deserves another.”
Source: The Satyricon
“One good turne asketh another.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.”
“One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.”
“One good woman more in the world is worth every single unicorn gone.”
“One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“One good you can do to your children is to inconvenience them in order to assist others. Weird? Grateful beneficiaries of your kindness can get to where you can't and prepare a place for your kids. Moreover, your kids would have learned the meaning of sacrifice.”
“One good you can do to your children is to inconvenience them in order to assist others. Wierd? Grateful beneficiaries of your kindness can get to where you can't and prepare a place for your kids. Moreover, your kids wld've learned the meaning of sacrifice.”
“One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.”
Source: The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day
“One GOP Congressman named Carlos Curbelo actually suggested that Donald Trump may be a 'phantom candidate' that has been planted by Democrats. The DNC strongly denied this - while Hillary said, 'Crap, they figured it out! Take off the wig, Bill.'”
“One got a savor out of life by casting overboard all the little rules which clutter up existence.”
Source: Early Autumn
“One grain of incense with devotion offer'd
'S beyond all perfumes of Sabaean spices.”
Source: The Plays
“One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.”
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbour 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 rotifers, 500 nematodes, 400 mites, and 200 fly larvae. These numbers tell us something about the astounding quantity of life in a handful of moss.”
“One graphic element captured the essence of spring”
“One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. Â A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. Â A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungus itself. If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate. If the grave wants to make you be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate.”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.”
“One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.”
“One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.”
“One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.”
“One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.”
“One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.”
Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart
“One great enemy we must all endeavor to fear not conquering is fear. Fear can cripple purpose and purposeful life. Fear asks question we must fear. Fear makes vision a nightmare. One must always cross the barrier of fear to get to the great city of true purposefulness. A great number of us who are unable to live to accomplish the true reason for our existence on earth are unable to cross the barrier of fear in the first place.”
“One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.”
“One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.”
Source: Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
“One great film The 33, based on a book The 33 or Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar. A story about miners, which are locked in a cave and survive 69 days with not a lot of food. The book can't show a lot of images, but if you want to feel everything the film is the best choice, a lot of different emotions, one moment you see anger, other rage and many others... but survive, still remaining brothers up to today!”
“One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.”
Source: A Critic's Notebook
“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.”
“One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.”
Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
“One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.”
“One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9/11 that he was coming after the U.S.? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.”
“One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.”
“One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.”
“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.”
“One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”
“One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about
it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth
every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering.
Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this.
>From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the
greatest degree of happiness.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.”
“One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.”
“One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.”
“One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing”
Source: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
“One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.”
“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“One great thing about subbing is that if I go to a different school every day I can wear the same outfit all week.”
Source: Mrs. White's SUB SNIPS: Substitute Teaching Cartoons From Real Life
“One great thing about the course of life is that there will be a multitude of times when you'll think to yourself, "I wish everything could be just like this, all the time."
And you'll think it more than once.
And you'll mean it more each time.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”