O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.”
“One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.”
“One half who graduate from college never read another book.”
“One hand for my mom, one hand to stop the fall. No hands for anyone else.”
Source: Obelisk
“One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.”
Source: Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”
“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."”
Source: Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan
“One hand washes the other.”
“One hand washes the other...both hands wash the face.”
“One hand washeth another, and both the face.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“One hand washeth another, both the face.
[Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]”
“One hand went around her shoulders and the other one tipped her chin up. For several seconds he lost himself in her blue eyes and then his lips found hers in a lingering kiss and both her arms went instinctively around his neck.
“I’ve wanted to do that all morning,” he said.
“I’ve wanted you to do that all morning,” she whispered. “I guess we don’t need to talk about this thing anymore now.”
“I’m ready to do lots of things, Annie Rose. Talk is not anywhere on the list.”
Source: How to Marry a Cowboy
“One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.”
Source: The Namesake: A Novel
“One handcuffs itself, with its vanity character; it breaks the best ties and contacts.”
“One handles truths like dynamite.”
“One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.”
“One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.”
Source: Shiver
“One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.”
“One hard truth is that, when you’re inside a corrupt system, it’s hard to recognize it as corrupt or even as a system. The other is that, when you’re inside a corrupt system, the corruption is inside you too.”
Source: Defenses Against the Dark Arts: The Political Education of Harry Potter and His Friends
“One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.”
“One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.”
Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer
“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”
“One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.”
“One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.”
“One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.”
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”
“One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.”
“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.”
“One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.”
Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
Source: Camille
“One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.”
“One has become entrenched in kusang (association that takes one away from the Self; bad company). That is why the disease of worldly life has become chronic. And what if one were to become entrenched in satsang?”
“One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.”
“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.”
“One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.”
“One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool”
“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.”
“One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”
“One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.”
“One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark”
Source: I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings
“One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.”
“One has much wealth; his wife, so sweet and yet so bold,
Distributes it to those who'll crown him a cuckold.
The other, still a wretch, but with a kinder fate,
Observing gifts presented to his lifelong mate,
Maintains his peace of mind free from all jealousy,
For she says her virtue attracts this gallantry.”
Source: Molière The School for Wives: A Translation in Rhymed Verse
“One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others”
“One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation