O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.”
“One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.”
Source: O Pioneers
“One jealousy that, one knows, it is formal, and another jealousy that occupies one's conscience, it is informal and holds ignorant, perilous and denial within it. It kills one's neutrality, modesty, and honesty. One remains unaware of it.”
“One jests because one wants to contemplate.”
Source: The Essential Plotinus
“One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.”
“One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward.”
Source: The Sense of Movement
“One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.”
“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”
“One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?”
Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.”
“One, just one, but definitely one of the great benefits of private prayer is that you can’t hide from your motives. In corporate prayer, we can sound like “all that”. We can blow Jesus smoke like nobody’s bizness in a crowd but, get alone with Him, and He won’t let you get away with the fake stuff. Try blowing Jesus smoke in your prayer closet and you’ll cough on it every time. Truth? That penetrating gaze of His hurts, but afterwards, it never fails to heal.”
“One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.”
“One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners.”
“One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.”
“One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.”
“One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.”
“One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn't been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening act? Johnny Mathis must have been busy. Matthew Hayden's Mongoose? Looks a bit like Bob Willis' bat with the "flow-through holes"; Saint Peter batting mitts are surely overdue a revival. The only genuinely intriguing step this year, bringing the IPL to YouTube, was forced on Modi by the collapse of Setanta; otherwise what Modi presents as 'innovation' is merely expansion by another name, in the number of franchises and the number of games.”
“one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.”
Source: Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir
“One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles unashamed.”
Source: The Day Before the Revolution
“One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.”
Source: The Outlaws of Sherwood
“One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.”
“One Kerry man seduced and was taking her to the ball. She felt like Cinderella it had taken her 16 and half years to get him to take her out anywhere not a mind to the school ball.”
“One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.”
Source: The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity
“One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.”
“One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.”
“One key habit I adopted is washing or sanitizing of hands every time, especially after using the toilet, before eating or handling food and whenever I go to visit someone in hospital and after leaving the hospital. Also use proper protective clothing in other circumstances like assisting ailing relatives and friends with communicable diseases.”
Source: Making Success Deliberate
“One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.”
Source: Teaching the iStudent: A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom
“One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.”
Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
“One key point is that different people may benefit from different types of meditation, as well as other interventions. This question of optimal matching between the form of practice and the type of person has not received much scientific attention.”
“One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year.”
Source: Become a Better You
“One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.”
Source: Prescription for Herbal Healing
“One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.”
“One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.”
“One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.”
“One key to moving forward is knowing what to leave behind.”
“One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.”
“One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.”
“One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.”
“One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.”
Source: The Wisdom of Crowds
“One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.”
Source: Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
“One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.”
“One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.”
“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.”
“One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.”
“One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.”
“One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.”
“One kills oneself because life is not worth living, that is certainly a truth yet an unfruitful one because it is a truism. But does that insult to existence, that flat denial in which it is plunged come from the fact that it has no meaning? Does its absurdity require one to escape it through hope or suicide—this is what must be clarified, hunted down, and elucidated while brushing aside all the rest.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings
“One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.”