O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
“One must act in painting as in life, directly.”
“One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“One must also acknowledge that there are moments in an organisation's development when fresh blood and new vision are required, which may imply that an outsider may be better suited to the leadership role.”
“One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.”
“One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.”
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“One must always be careful of books.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“One must always be careful with books and treasure them.”
“One must always be civic-minded.”
“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.”
Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
“One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.”
“One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.”
“One must always do what one really cannot.”
“One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.”
“One must always forgive another's passion.”
Source: South of Broad
“One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.”
Source: Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith
“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.”
“One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.”
Source: DUNE
“One must always leave ample time to get ready, so there is a slow, incremental rise in joy.”
Source: Happy Hour
“One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.”
“One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.”
“One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.”
“One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.”
“One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.”
“One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.”
Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader
“One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.”
“One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.”
“One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.”
Source: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
“One must appreciate the easy things as it helps to transform the dreams into reality”
“One must as willingly be nothing, as something.”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
“one must at times
zoom out to see the bigger picture”
“One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.”
“One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves”
“One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.”
Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…
“One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.”
“One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.”
“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”
“One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.”
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.”
“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
Source: Table-talk
“One must be able to let things happen.”
Source: Alchemical studies
“One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs”
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore