O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.”
“One or two of their players aren't getting any younger”
“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”
Source: Waverley Novels
“One or two steps alone do not guarantee the evidence of your success unless you have your own peculiar definition for success. And I assure you; that definition is wrong! Do it again and again!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“One or two things are all you need
to travel over the blue pond, over the deep
roughage of the trees and through the stiff
flowers of lightning --- some deep
memory of pleasure, some cutting
knowledge of pain.
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But to lift the hoof!
For that you need
an idea.
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For years and years I struggled
just to love my life. And then
the butterfly
rose, weightless, in the wind.
"Don't love your life
too much," it said,
and vanished
into the world.”
Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.”
“One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites]”
“One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference”
Source: Woman of Influence: Ten Traits of Those Who Want to Make a Difference
“One original thinker can outsmart a dozen distinguished experts.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.”
“One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings”
“One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.”
“One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.”
Source: Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica
“One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.”
“One other specific piece of guidance we've offered is that low-quality content on some parts of a website can impact the whole site’s rankings, and thus removing low quality pages, merging or improving the content of individual shallow pages into more useful pages, or moving low quality pages to a different domain could eventually help the rankings of your higher-quality content.”
“One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.”
“One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of nowhere, she took me to the gun range. She finished one clip with her right hand then unloaded the other clip with her left hand. I certainly got the message. She was not to be messed with or messed over. I was scared straight by this woman.”
Source: Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
“One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.”
“One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth. You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.”
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
“One ought, Milena, to take your face between both hands and look steadily into your eyes so that you would recognize yourself in the eyes of the other and from then on be incapable even of thinking the kind of things you wrote in the letter.”
“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
“One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome”
Source: Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams
“One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.”
“One ought not to quarrel with the aim of impartiality. It is just that, as an objective, it is harder to attain than its advocates imagine.”
“One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.”
“One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.”
“One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.”
“One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.”
“One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.”
“One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.”
“One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.”
Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
“One ought to be just before one is generous”
Source: Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948
“One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.”
“One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie”
“One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.”
“One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.”
“One ought to pretend that there is still hope, in this late season, for astonishment.”
Source: Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
“One ought to recognise that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you’re freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark it’s stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties from Conservatives to Anarchist—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind wind.”
Source: Orwell on Truth
“One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
“One ounce of love is more powerful than a hundred pounds of intellect.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.”
“One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.”