O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One must travel, to learn.”
Source: Mark Twain's Pleasure Trip on the Continent
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad
“One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.”
Source: Theory in practice: increasing professional effectiveness
“One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.'
'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...'
'Life won't leave one alone as it is.”
Source: War and Peace
“One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.”
“One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.”
“One must understand the importance of an endless drive to get information and seek value.”
“One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.”
Source: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions
“One must use the night.”
Source: Fair Play
“One must use the weapons one finds in one's path.”
“one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others”
“One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.”
“One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.”
“One must wait till it comes.”
Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.”
“One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.”
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“One must work with time and not against it.”
“One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
“One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.”
“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.”
Source: The Man with the black coat: Russia's literature of the absurd : selected works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky
“One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.”
“One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.”
Source: Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
“One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.”
“One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.”
“One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.”
“One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.”
“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”
“One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.”
Source: The Prisoner of Heaven
“One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.”
“One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.”
“One my closest friends doesn't care about sharing her clothes or jewelry, but she never shares her fragrance.”
“One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.”
“One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn’t true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.”
Source: Yes! You Can Manage Stress: Regain Control of Your Life Using the Five Habits of Effective Stress Management
“One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and somewhat ignores or minimizes the influence of the immaterial part of the universe.”
“One naked star has waded through
The purple shallows of the night,
And faltering as falls the dew
It drips its misty light.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
“One nasty rumor, and the woman gets railroaded,” John grumbled. “It was the sister-in-law that spoke to the papers. None of what she said has any ground at all, but naturally, it was dragged to the finish line before the truth could beat it back.
-Johnathon Roberts, Page 321”
Source: Power & Influence
“One nation banking recognises that banks must not be isolated from the rest of the economy. Because banks and small businesses must succeed or fail together, banks must lend to small businesses so we can get the growth and jobs we need for the future. As things stand, that is not happening enough. Lending was down £10.8billion last year.”
“One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other.”
Source: The Federalist
“One nation's common sense is another nation's high blood pressure.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all’ may be one of the biggest government lies being told to the masses.”
“One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.”
“One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.”
Source: Geological Sketches
“One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.”
“One Need activates hundreds of Desires. Find long lasting happiness and fulfillment by knowing your Personality Needs instead of following your desires.”
Source: Modus Vivendi - Your Life Your Way: 7 Days to Self Transformation
“One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.”
“One need carry nothing going into sexual encounters.”
Source: Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life
“One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate”
Source: The Remains of the Day