O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.”
Source: Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
“One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.”
“One should always consider when acting, not only the joy and pleasure that follows, but also the anguish and length of discomfort; especially when it torments another party.”
“One should always dress like a marble column.”
“One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”
“One should always hark back to this very simple formula of karma: how you treat others is how karma treats you.”
“One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.”
“One should always keep a balance when they are measuring and comparing things and as for people, we can’t measure them.”
Source: I Saw The Devil
“One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.
-Sherlock Holmes”
“One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.”
“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945
“one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started”
“One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.”
“One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.”
“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
“One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.”
“One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.”
“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”
Source: Travels with Virginia Woolf
“One should be able to find the trails of moonlight even in the thick dark, for this is the unconquerable summer even in a winterland.”
“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”
“One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?”
“One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.”
“One should be accountable to his own soul.”
Source: The Science of Spiritual Enlightenment: A Book for Eternity
“one should be afraid of life, not of death.”
“One should be allowed to choose one's burden.”
Source: Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings
“One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.”
“One should be careful not to buy into the notion that someone else's life is somehow more complete or fulfilling than yours based solely on what you see online.”
“One should be cautious about "general conceptions." I think a strong case can be made that activism today is as high as ever, perhaps more so, and is also taking new and significant forms. There has never been anything like the international solidarity movements that began to take shape in the 1980s, right in the mainstream, or the global justice movements that have become a very powerful force in later years. It's true that the society is highly atomized, which does induce a sense of hopelessness often - quite mistakenly I think.”
“One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.”
Source: Complete Plays: 1920-1931
“One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.”
“One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.”
“One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.”
Source: The Quiet Girl
“One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.”
Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art
“One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.”
“One should be known for a kind heart,because you are not just a so and so person,you are an identity who is part of the almighty god,who above all likes kindness,because he is the bestower of all desired attributes,but is benevolently looking for kindness from his creations”
“One should be labelled as a villain in society’s eyes in order to commit kind deeds untrammelled. The society never associates freedom with kindness, for sometimes the free spirits allow themselves to defy common rules, and the society deems it as villainy. If I am called a villain for the said reason, I shall bear that label with pride, for it proves I am a free man.”
Source: Galaxy Pirates
“One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”
“One, should be mindful, the conflicts inside you are greater and more destructive than those involving others and the environment. The internal conflict, centers on decisions and choices; where confliction takes root. Should we push the button lite by the conscious or the one, others have chosen for us. If the heart is in the picture, run in that direction.”
“One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what media shout. Vote as per your own conscience . Reject those who targets people because of race or religion.”
“One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.”
“One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“One should be revitalized and reborn at every beat and with each new breath.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“One should be weary of drawing too many inferences from a single poll. You can find wildly disparate results with two different polls. There is no question that American Muslims remain one of the most marginalized and demonized groups in United States. There has been a sustained propaganda campaign against Muslims for over a decade and it doesn't disappear over night. Those attitudes are hardened. But one of the things that polling often doesn't measure is the intensity of opinions.”
“One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.”
“One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.”
Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou