O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he for real? Or is he just kissing ass? Almost all Negroes, are almost always acting, but before a white audience - which is quite incapable of judging their performance.”
“One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.”
“One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.”
Source: The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.”
Source: The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird
“One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.”
“One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.”
“One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.”
“One never escapes karma, every action is stored subconsciously.”
“One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.”
“One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.”
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”
“One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.”
Source: The Prisoner of Heaven
“One never gets the same summer twice.”
Source: Wideacre: A Novel
“One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.”
“One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.”
“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”
“One never graduates from life. We are forever students.”
“One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.”
Source: Conversations with Graham Greene
“One never knows how loyalty is born.”
“One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her — is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.”
“One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.”
“One never knows what fate has in store.”
Turning toward Rohan, Amelia discovered he was glancing over her in a slow inventory that spurred her heart into a faster beat. “I don’t believe in fate,” she said. “People are in control of their own destinies.”
Rohan smiled. “Everyone, even the gods, are helpless in the hands of fate.”
Amelia regarded him skeptically. “Surely you, being employed at a gaming club, know all about probability and odds. Which means you can’t rationally give credence to luck or fate or anything of the sort.”
“I know all about probability and odds,” Rohan agreed. “Nevertheless, I believe in luck.” He smiled with a quiet smolder in his eyes that caused her breath to catch. “I believe in magic and mystery, and dreams that reveal the future. And I believe some things are written in the stars … or even in the palm of your hand.”
Mesmerized, Amelia was unable to look away from him. He was an extraordinarily beautiful man, his skin as dark as clover honey, his black hair falling over his forehead in a way that made her fingers twitch with the urge to push it back.
“Do you believe in fate too?” she asked Merripen.
A long hesitation. “I’m a Roma,” he said.
Which meant yes. “Good Lord, Merripen. I’ve always thought of you as a sensible man.”
Rohan laughed. “It’s only sensible to allow for the possibility, Miss Hathaway. Just because you can’t see or feel something doesn’t mean it can’t exist.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.”
“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”
“One never knows what sins lurk below the surface.”
Source: Running Stop Signs
“One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.”
Source: Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
“One never knows when one is old for certain.”
Source: Four Plays
“One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.”
“One never knows, do one?”
“One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.”
“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
Source: Wicked
“One never learns how the witch becomes wicked or if it was the right choice for he — is it ever the right choice?”
“One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.”
“One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“One never paints violently enough.”
“One never perishes through anybody but oneself.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
Source: MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER
“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”
“One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.”
Source: Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”
“One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.”
“One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.”
Source: Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel
“One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.”
Source: The Neighbors Are Watching
“One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.”