O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought”
Source: Frankenstein
“One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.”
“One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.”
“One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.”
Source: The Book of Jhereg
“One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.”
“One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.”
“One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.”
“One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.”
“One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.”
“One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.”
“One man's pornography is another man's theology.”
“One man's priority is another man's extravagence.”
“One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“One man's style must not be the rule of another's.”
Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
“One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter”
Source: Harry's Game: A Thriller
“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.”
“One man's transparency is another's humiliation.”
“One man's trash is another man's girlfriend.”
Source: It's Good to Be the King... Sometimes
“One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.”
“One man's trash that's another man's come up.”
“One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.”
“One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.”
“One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.”
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
“One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.”
“One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.”
“One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.”
“One mans cult is another mans religion.”
“One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.”
Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
“One man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“One map, titled “Mediterranean without Borders,” by French cartographer Sabine Réthoré, turns our view ninety degrees to the right, the “west” facing up—imagine North Africa to the left and Europe into Turkey to the right with equal stature, the Levant stretching to Egypt at the bottom, and the Rock of Gibraltar at top. Our perspective shifts, the Mediterranean Sea unfolding almost like a lake, the shores mirroring each other along these ancient corridors dotted by islands and waterways. It’s a busy thoroughfare. The Mediterranean is “probably the most vigorous place of interaction,” as eminent historian David Abulafia observed, “between different societies on the face of this planet.”
There in the upper reaches, the island of Sardinia sits in the middle, a focal point of entry and inspection. Instead of being on the periphery of empires or a nebulous island west of the Italian mainland, Sardinia is central to the Mediterranean story and a nexus for navigators heading in any direction. The idea of isolation, as one medieval historian would note, no longer appears “tenable.”
Source: In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
“One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.”
“One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.”
“One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.”
Source: The Art of War
“One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”
“One mark of good verse is surprise”
Source: Sweet Songs of Zion: Selected Radio Talks
“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”
Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China
“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who followed the north side of the Platte in 1836 on horseback, "becoming the first white women to cross the American continent," and who, along with her husband, Marcus, was "massacred by Cayuse Indians" at their Protestant mission in 1847 in Walla Walla, Washington. (The Indians there were justifiably enraged at the whites for spreading measles to them.)”
Source: Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
“One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.”
“One market research project should have only one objective. More than one objective can affect the effectiveness of your research.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.”
“One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.”
“One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.”
Source: The Secret Garden
“One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.”
“One master defines Zen as the art of feeling the polar star in the southern sky. Truth can be reached only through the comprehension of opposites.”
Source: The Book of Tea
“One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.”
“One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.”
“One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.”
“One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.”