O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.”
“Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.”
Source: Just After Sunset
“Obliterate the fallacy, let's love.
Praise the adoration, let's love.
Now both of us have leisure, let's love.
Love needs both of us, let's love.
There is no peril pronto, let's love.
Thanks to love, let's love.”
“Oblivion and significance/brush our bones, leave us weeping for strangers.”
Source: Curses and Wishes: Poems
“Oblivion cures the old wounds.”
“Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped”
“Oblivion here thy wisdom is,
Thy thrift, the sleep of cares;
For a proud idleness like this
Crowns all thy mean affairs.”
Source: Collected Poems and Translations
“Oblivion is bliss. It makes one feel at peace.
But not quite.
Not quite.
My brain is at peace.
But my heart isn't.
It longs for its other half.
The half that comprises the whole.
The half that matches its beat.
The half that makes it throb.
The half that makes it strong to overcome anything.
Even oblivion.”
Source: Chroma Hearts
“Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.”
“Oblivion is not to be hired.”
Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence
“Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.”
Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence
“Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decided this was a project I really wanted to work on creatively, and I hope fans of the game enjoy the results.”
“Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.”
Source: Historical Essays
“Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”
“Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide.”
“Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.”
“Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.”
“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”
Source: People of the Whale
“Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.”
“OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Oblong cocooned little visitor, the baby shows her profile blindly in the shuddering flashes of color jerking from the Sony, the tiny stitchless seam of the closed eyelid aslant, lips bubbled forward beneath the whorled nose as if in delicate disdain, she knows she’s good. You can feel in the curve of the cranium she’s feminine, that shows from the first day. Through all this she has pushed to be here, in his lap, his hands, a real presence hardly weighing anything but alive. Fortune’s hostage, heart’s desire, a granddaughter. His. Another nail in his coffin. His.”
Source: Rabbit is Rich
“Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibrating nature’s
lunar-bound graces,
they wash ashore only for
closed palms to forsake them.
The cheerful will
cherish them, place them
on windowsills, or on graves.”
Source: Of My Maiden Smoking
“Obojica su istodobno spoznala da je tamo unutra uvijek ožujak i stalno ponedjeljak, shvativši da José Arcadio Buendía nije bio tako lud kako je obitelj mislila, već, štoviše, jedini dovoljno oštrouman da nasluti istinu o vremenu; i ono je bilo podložno greškama i kojekakvim nezgodama, tako da se moglo skrhati i u nekoj sobi zaboraviti jedan okršak za vječnost.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Obraz kamna je nespremenljiv.
Leti, miruje in pada z nasmeškom.”
Source: Težnost
“Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.”
“Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.”
“Obscenities are the emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.”
“Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.”
“Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.”
“Obscenity in matters of faith, however wrapped up, is always a token of fable and imposture; for it is necessary to our serious belief in God, that we do not connect it with stories that run, as this does, into ludicrous interpretations. This story is, upon the face of it, the same kind of story as that of Jupiter and Leda, or Jupiter and Europa, or any of the amorous adventures of Jupiter; and shews, as is already stated in the former part of 'The Age of Reason,' that the Christian faith is built upon the heathen Mythology.”
Source: The age of reason
“Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.”
Source: An Essay on Liberation
“Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. Pbscene is not the picture of a naked woman who exposes her pubic hair but that of a fully clad general who exposes his medals rewarded in a war of aggression; obscene is not the ritual of the Hippies but the declaration of a high dignitary of the Church that war is necessary for peace.”
Source: An Essay on Liberation
“Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.”
“Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture.”
Source: Obscene
“Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.”
Source: Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo
“Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.”
“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.”
“Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.”
Source: Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man
“Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.”
“Obscure, like muddy waters.”
“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.”
“Obscurity brings safety.”
“Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls”
“Obscurity establish greatness.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Obscurity Establish Greatness (Sonnet)
I grew up in a 20ft/20ft one-room house,
used to walk an hour to get to school -
and although I never knew what luxury was,
I'm just grateful, I never had to starve -
I never had to wear torn clothes,
never had to experience a leaky roof,
unlike my parents, who grew up poor,
as neither of my grandfathers were good providers.
Like my father, his father was a factory worker,
but unlike my father, he could barely feed his family,
and my other grandfather was a poor priest,
who too could barely provide for his family, with
the little money he earned from religious ceremonies.
My parents grew up in abject poverty, I grew up
in modest security, and all of it has kept me grounded.
Little obscurity is essential for building character -
luxury stunts growth, obscurity establish greatness.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.”
“Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.”