O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.”
“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”
“One has to beckon the spiritual warrior inside oneself whenever it is deemed necessary for the task at hand. Courage is the fuel. Healing is the direction. Forgiveness is the balm. Love is the atmosphere Divine.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.”
“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”
“One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.”
“One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.”
“One has to calm the mind to hear this deeper reality's voice. The seed of completeness lies in our 'Self.' A conscious 'Self' is always free from illusion. It is always in harmony with nature and the laws of the universe. It has a tuning with to the cosmic rhythm.”
“One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.”
“One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.”
“One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.”
“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.”
Source: Lennon Remembers
“One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.”
“One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.”
“One has to die to the separate self in oder to find the universal Self or God […] as the mystics everywhere have repeatedly told us, it is only in accepting death that real life is found. (A Universe within, p. 79)”
Source: Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber
“One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.”
Source: Moominland Midwinter
“One has to 'do' for worldly happiness, for material happiness. However, one does not have to 'do' anything for liberation (moksha) or to attain God. Yet what do the people of the present times teach? 'Do', 'do', 'do'.”
Source: Right Understanding To Help Others
“One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.”
Source: Aphorisms
“One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.”
“One has to do something new in order to see something new.”
“One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect”
“One has to find a balance. I don't say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice, but there have to be times when you throw yourself into it, and then there are times when you just relax and realize that wherever you go, you cannot get out of the dharma.”
“One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.”
Source: And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
“One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.”
“one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.”
“One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And if this majority group looks down on itself ... If a minority group is not given some pride in assimilating to the culture of another group then the process is very difficult.”
“One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.”
“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”
“One has to grow old to understand the functioning of science. Then one may remember the papers which a long time ago aroused great interest and one may compare them to the present-day textbooks. [...] History becomes smooth, too smooth in writing. Right starts are forgotten, wrong expeditions into the desert disappear without a trace. Only a few papers will be cited.”
Source: The Lac Operon: A Short History of a Genetic Paradigm by Müller-Hill, Benno (1996) Paperback
“One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.”
“One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.”
“One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.”
Source: Tony Kushner in Conversation
“One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.”
“One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.”
“One has to imagine a setting in a forest sometime as far back as 2000 BCE or earlier, where a sage, who has spent decades perhaps in the search for truth and wisdom, shares thoughts, most often elliptically, with a group of students eager to begin their own journey in unravelling the mysteries of life. The conversation is not in the form of a formal dialogue, but through parable and suggestion, story and allusion, or statements of deep penetrative insight into what constitutes the transcendent reality underlying our lives and this universe. What is significant is that while obviously having the role of a mentor, the guru is open to questions being asked and instead of delivering a monologue from a pedestal, is willing to have a conversation which is guided as much by what the guru has to say as by what is being asked by the shishya. Significant too is that what the sage says is not in the nature of a command, but more in the format of an insight, inviting discussion and interrogation. Considering the fact that for many Hindus (including Adi Shankaracharya), even though the Upanishads are seen as shruti or revealed texts, the fact that they were dialogic, and not prescriptive, set the tone for the further evolution of Hinduism itself.
Other foundational texts of Hinduism carry forward this dialogic tradition. One of these is the Brahma Sutra by Badarayana written sometime around 450 BCE. In Indian tradition, Badarayana is identified with the legendary Vyasa who compiled the Vedas. The Brahma Sutra is known by many names—Nyaya Prasthana, because it puts the teachings of the Upanishads in a structured order; Vedanta Sutra, since it is a text on the Vedanta; Sariraka Sutra, since it deals with the nature and evolution of the embodied soul; and Uttara Mimamsa Sutra, since it deals with the final section of the Vedas, unlike the Purva Mimamsa which deals with the earlier sections.”
Source: The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward
“One has to judge things by their fruits. And one of the fruits of modern science, clear for all to see, and implicit in the philosophy on which it is based, is the dehumanization both of man and of the society that he has built in its name.”
Source: The Rape of Man & Nature: An Inquiry Into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science
“One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.”
“One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.”
“One has to know the size of one's stomach.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart. That is self identity and also self knowledge. Also, one becomes one with the all-pervading Divine power of love. Our awareness is enlightened by the Spirit and Divine vibrations start flowing through our central nervous system enlightening our being.”
“One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.”
“One has to live a life that creates a writer.”
“One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.”
Source: Discourse Summaries
“One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?”
“One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.”
“One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.”
“One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people.”
“One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.”
Source: Management
“One has to make one's own mistakes, not other people's. Do what you have to do and come back soon. Or whenever you can.”
Source: The Labyrinth of the Spirits