O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.”
“One man can make another's life so much better.”
“One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.”
“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole”
Source: Young India
“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers
“One man cannot make a team.”
“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
Source: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic
“One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!”
“One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.”
“One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.”
“One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.”
“One man gathers what another man spills”
Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs
“One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely body oriented. Nobody has ever thought that by running meditation is possible - but I know, I used to love running myself. It happens. If you go on running, if you run fast, thinking stops, because thinking cannot possibly continue when you are running very fast. For thinking an easy chair is needed, that's why we call thinkers armchair philosophers; they sit and relax in a chair, the body completely relaxed, then the whole energy moves into the mind.”
“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.”
“One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.”
Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year
“One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man”
Source: Complete Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling: 25 Illustrated Collections: 440+ Tales in One Volume – Ultimate Short Story Collection: Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three, The Jungle Book, The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, Land and Sea Tales…
“One man in his time plays many parts.”
“One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.”
“One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.”
Source: Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll
“One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.”
“One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.”
“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”
“One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.”
“One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.”
“One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.”
“One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.”
Source: Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus
“One man lives out his life beating his fears into submission, while another lives out his life letting his fears beat him into submission. And while the fears are the same, the kind of men that they produce are not.”
“One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
“One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.”
Source: The farthest shore
“One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.”
“One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.”
Source: Essays
“One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.”
“One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
“One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey.”
Source: Skeleton Crew
“One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.”
“One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
“One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.”
“One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.”
“One-man regimes belong to old eras; they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!”
“One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]”
“One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.”
“One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”
“One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.”
Source: Broken Shells
“One man's generalisation is another man's succinct yet profound summation of a complex theory or argument.”
“One man’s illusion is another’s reality.”
Source: Shadow's Messenger
“One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering.”