O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One is, after all, very adaptable; one has to be. One finds diversions; these, indeed, confront one at every turn, the world being so full of natural beauties and enchanting artifacts, of adventures and jokes and excitements and romance and remedies for grief. It is simply that a dimension has been taken out of my life, leaving it flat, not rich and rounded and alive any more, but hollow and thin and unreal, like a ghost that roves whispering about its old haunts, looking always for something that is not there.”
Source: The Towers of Trebizond
“One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.”
“One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.”
Source: Murder Preferred: Including: The Patriotic Murders; A Murder is Announced; Murder in Retrospect
“One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.”
Source: Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations
“One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.”
“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”
“One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.”
“One is always at home in one's past.”
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.”
“One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.”
“One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.”
“One is always greater than hundred because without one there is no hundred”
“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”
Source: Jakob von Gunten
“One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.”
“One is always in the hold of the world, but one doesn't physically feel it's hold, doesn't account for its effect. Cannot draw comfort from the hold of the world, which registers only as a neutral emptiness. But the sea one feels. And so surrounded, so steadily held, so gently rocked - so differently organized - one's thoughts come in another form.”
Source: Forest Dark
“One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.”
Source: Table-talk Or Original Essays. - London, Colburn 1822
“One is always nearer by not keeping still.”
“One is always on time if time doesn't matter to them, little mouse”
Source: Blue in Wonderland
“One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.”
Source: Further Confessions of a Story Writer: Stories Old and New
“One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.”
Source: The House on Durrow Street
“One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.”
“One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.”
“One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare”
Source: The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents, and Adventures as They Appeared to the Author
“One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.”
Source: On Education
“One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.”
Source: Out of my time
“One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.”
Source: Essays, letters, miscellanies (2 v. in 1)
“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”
“One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.”
“One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.”
“One is born to be a great dancer.”
“One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.”
“One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.”
Source: The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel
“One is but a shade of the other.”
Source: Angelology: A Novel
“One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?”
“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.”
“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better”
“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“One is Christianized to the extent that he is a Christianizer. One is evangelized to the extent that he is an evangelist.”
“One is clumsy at first. So is the apprentice of any skilled craft... The secret is to draw with intelligence - to be sure of what you want; for if you are undecided, so will your drawing be.”
Source: Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art
“One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“One is considered as a son if he were to remove all of his father's troubles.”
Source: Generation Gap
“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.”
“One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload”
Source: Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen
“One is easily fooled by that which one loves.”
“One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.”
“One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.”
“One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why it should be so. Each one is traveling his own way and, though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck the fruits; the procession scrambles toward the exit sign, and such a panic is there, such a sweat to escape, that the weak and the helpless are trampled into the mud and their cries are unheard.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.”