O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.”
Source: Children of Dune
“One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
“One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.”
“One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.”
Source: A Collection of Essays
“One must choose between loving women and knowing them.”
“One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.”
Source: Emile: Or, On Education
“One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.”
Source: Harbours of Memory
“One must choose in all things a mean just and good.”
“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”
“One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.”
“One must command from each what each can preform.”
“One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”
“One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written.”
“One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.”
“One must confront vague ideas with clear images.”
“One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .”
“One must consider that small children are virtually incapable of making much impact on their world. No matter what path taken as a
child, survivors grow up believing they should have done something differently.
Perhaps there is no greater form of
survivor guilt than “I didn't try to stop it." Or “I should have told." The legacy of a helpless, vulnerable, out-of-control, and humiliated child creates an adult who is generally tentative, insecure, and quite angry. The anger is not often expressed, however, as it is not safe to be angry with violent people. Confrontation and conflict are difficult for many survivors.”
“One must consider the final result”
Source: The Portable Machiavelli
“One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.”
Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
“One must constantly meditate upon the absurdities of chance, a subject even more edifying than the subject of death.”
Source: The Black Prince
“One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.”
“One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.”
“One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.”
Source: The substance of man
“One must dare to be happy.”
“One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.”
“One must desire something to be alive.”
“One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.”
“One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.”
“One must die at the present level to be reborn onto a higher plane not just in the physical state, but also in the conscious and emotional state.”
Source: Death Is Only the Beginning: Making Way For the New
“One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.”
Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
“One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.”
“One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.”
“One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the wild." This is why I love parks, and why I chose to use them in my work - they are beyond nature. I see nature as a resource.”
“One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.”
“One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.”
Source: Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)
“One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.”
“One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“One must do what one can to keep warm in the autumn months.”
Source: In Limbo
“One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.”
“One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.”
Source: Three Lives
“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”
Source: The substance of man
“One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.”
“One must endure without losing tenderness.”
“One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.”
Source: Table-talk
“One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.”
“One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh - a process taking (say) 500 years.”
“One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.”
Source: Extraordinary Minds: Portraits Of 4 Exceptional Individuals And An Examination Of Our Own Extraordinariness
“One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad
“One must face the harsh music and recognize that emotional investment has lost the battle against fleetingness and volatility if a relationship appears to have been only a wild-goose chase. ("Was it all worthwhile?")”