O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.”
“One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”
“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”
“one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.”
Source: The Prodigal Women
“One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.”
Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice
“One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.”
Source: Acacia
“One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“One must finish something to start something.”
“One must first allow the presence of gray to take root,
then release it to weigh its absence before being certain about anything.”
Source: Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within
“One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.”
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
“One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.”
“One must first learn to fall if one would fly.”
“One must first learn to heal people to be great. To hurt people is easy.”
“One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.”
Source: The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
“One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.”
“One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature”
“One must forever be grateful to those who arrived with a lamp, turning darkness into dawn.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“one must forget the past—more accurately, one must remember the necessity of forgetting.”
Source: Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting
“One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.”
“One must gauge one's trust carefully.”
Source: Kushiel's Chosen
“One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.”
“One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
outwitting the market.”
Source: A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
“One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.”
“One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.”
“One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.”
Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932
“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. One must have a strong imagination in order to feel sympathy. So closely is ethics connected with intellectual capacity.”
“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”
Source: Summers of the Sisterhood
“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”
“One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.”
Source: Edgar Degas: Paintings
“One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.”
Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution
“One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“One must have a reason to "be happy." Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
This need for a reason is similar in another specifically human phenomenon - laughter. If you want anyone to laugh you have to provide him with a reason, e.g., you have to tell him a joke. In no way is it possible to evoke real laughter by urging him, or having him urge himself to laugh.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.”
“One must have a tough mind, and a soft heart.”
“One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One must have ambition and one must understand the minds ... of men.”
“One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.”
Source: Existence
“One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end.
~Dr. Barron”
Source: Destination unknown
“One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“One must have first of all a solid foundation.”
“One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.”
“One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.”
“One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.”
“One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.”
Source: Essays on Music
“One must hesitate when calling these protests pro-Palestinian because in that labelling, we lose their truth. They are protests against senseless killings, they are a rejection of regimes that support occupation and a cry for an end to war as a pathway to peace. These protests are pro-humanity in its true sense of the word, an all-encompassing humanity that is not cherry-picked by the powers that be. They are protests against hypocrisy and for a right to life.”
“One must, however, take care not to understand this conversation with God--the conversation of which I have to speak in this book and in almost all the works which followed--as something happening solely alongside or above the everyday. God's speech to men penetrates what happens in the life of each one of us, and all that happens in the world around us, biographical and historical, and makes it for you and me into instruction, message, demand. Happening upon happening, situation upon situation, are enabled and empowered by the personal speech of God to demand of the human person that he take his stand and make his decision. Often enough we think there is nothing to hear, but long before we have ourselves put wax in our ears.
(Postscript, October 1957)”
Source: I and Thou
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”