O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don't know all, and what they do know, they often won't tell you- because they've got their own agendas, or because they want to shield you from the hard truths "for your own good." Adults lie, they betray, they screw up in every way possible...”
Source: Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
“One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.”
“One of the greatest truth’s is that most ‘truth’ is not.”
“One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.”
“One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.”
Source: The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
“One of the greatest virtue you could observe in a man is their attitude towards time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.”
“One of the greatest ways in which to understand the unsurpassing ingenuity of God is to hold up who we used to be against who we’ve become. But possibly the greatest way to see His ingenuity is to allow what He’s done to begin revealing the vision of where He’s yet to take us. And that is exactly the kind of genius that I will gladly bow before and give the whole of my life to.”
“One of the greatest ways to stay young is to have little kids.”
“One of the greatest ways to triumph over wanting to eat constantly is to teach yourself how to focus on something else -- something you enjoy doing. In other words, get a hobby!”
“One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.”
“One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.”
“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”
Source: The Long Goodbye
“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
“One of the guiding principles of Altuzarra is that fashion can be transformative, changing not just the way you look, but also the way you feel. By partnering with Target, we hope to bring that same experience to a much broader range of women.”
“One of the guiding principles of dryadology,” I said, “is this: do not cross the sort of Folk who make collections of human body parts.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.”
“One of the guys took the flashlight, and I prepared myself for all kinds of forest-at-night
horrors. Ticks. Poison Ivy. Were there bats? Bats.
-Andy and the Extroverts”
Source: Andy and the Extroverts
“One of the hallmarks of a life well lived, a life worthy to return to God's presence and receive a fulness of the Father, is to be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus". Paul was valiant, and we can be valiant as well. To be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus" is to be faithful.”
“One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward”
Source: Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Committment
“One of the hallmarks of great teachers is that they rejoice when their students surpass them. Encouraging an atmosphere of questioning and inviting people to grow within your classroom isn’t necessarily easy; which must explain why people who want to create cults or die hard followers discourage questioning in general. They would rather have people reciting their dogma than asking hard questions.”
Source: Create a Safe Space: An Inspirational Guidebook for Yoga Teachers Who want to Further Serve their Students
“One of the hallmarks of happiness is having close, meaningful connections with others. But keeping up a facade of having it all together keeps us isolated, because it keeps us from forging real, honest, deep relationships where we can fully be ourselves and feel accepted exactly as we are.”
Source: Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
“One of the hallmarks of lamentation is its excess. Talking becomes screaming, singing becomes wailing. Mourners act out their pain on their own bodies, tearing their clothes and hair, beating their chests, even inflicting injuries. This intensity sets it apart from other forms of public witnessing. Lamentation is communication as it reels toward the unsayable, the inexpressible pain of loss. I see in practices of exhumation, in the lengths gone to recover the dead after annihilating violence, something of this excess. The enormous forensic undertakings are scientific and legal efforts, but they are also expressions of pain and acts of faith. As a postcard pinned to an office door at the FAFG forensic laboratory says: “Archeology is my religion.”
“One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead;”
Source: America America
“One of the hallmarks of social wellness is being inclusive, not exclusive, with our friendship.”
“One of the hallmarks of the team is this sense of looking to be wrong. It's the inquisitiveness, and sense of exploration. It's about being excited to be wrong, because then you've discovered something new.”
“One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.”
“One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.”
“One of the hard decisions about being an author is do you reveal your secrets to progress science, or do you stay silent to maintain your private life?”
“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.”
“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. The cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”
Source: Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. They cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”
Source: Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
“One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.”
Source: Penrod
“One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.”
“One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.”
“One of the hardest jobs in this world is to be able to preserve the innocent face of our childhood in our adulthood as well!”
“One of the hardest journeys you make is the one you take from the bus you were thrown under.”
“One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.”
Source: The Man Who Laughs
“One of the hardest lessons I have learned social justice work is that, even when oppressive systems are confronted and dismantled, those responsible will- more often than not- take hold of the narrative to mitigate responsibility. As a result, the oppressed still tend to bear the brunt of the fallout.
And what makes that even harder to process is that many people who would declare themselves "allies to the cause" will passively or actively buy into that false narrative because it is far easier and less costly than to walk in genuine solidarity.
I don't say this so that people will feel hopeless about their commitments to justice. Quite the opposite. If you know that this happens, you won't be as crushed when it does.”
“One of the hardest lessons I've had to learn is that no matter how good a person you are, no matter how much you try to understand others, be empathetic, or reach out to help, some people just will not like you. Ever.”
Source: Do It For You: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Find Peace
“One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.”
Source: Night Watch
“One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.”
Source: Complete writings of John Burroughs
“One of the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it's perfectly OK to say no.”
“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”
“One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.”
“One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.”
“One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.”
“One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.”
Source: Stay