O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“One should make morals judgements for oneself.”
“One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden. Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.”
“One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.”
Source: Catherine-Paris
“One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.”
“One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle.”
“One should mature over 20 years.”
“One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish”
“One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage”
“one should never assume anything”
Source: Crossfire
“One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.”
“One should never be where one does not belong.”
“One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.”
“One should never believe the words I speak.”
Source: The Deadly Game
“One should never, but never, pass by an opportunity to celebrate.”
Source: The Bag Lady
“One should never conceal their path to the field from their source.”
“One should never condemn what one cannot understand.”
“One should never confuse religion and faith because they are both different. One is man-made and the other comes from the heart in what we believe.”
“One should never create tension between one's footwear.”
“One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.”
“One should never despair too soon.”
“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.”
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.”
“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
“One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.”
“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”
“One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.”
“One should never get used to temporary pleasures in the extreme, because it has the capability of turning your normal into a hell.”
“One should never giggle in handcuffs unless one were naked. I was sure I'd read that rule somewhere.”
Source: Pirate's Alley
“One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.”
“One should never go by what people say.”
Source: Murder at the Vicarage
“One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.”
“One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.”
“One should never know too precisely whom one has married”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.”
“One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.”
“One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.”
“One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.”
Source: Gone Girl
“One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”
“One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.”
“One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.”
“One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.”
“One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.”
Source: The Hydrogen Sonata: A Culture Novel
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.”
“One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.”
“One should never say, ‘I have no mistakes.’ It is only after one attains absolute Knowledge (keval gnan) that mistakes do not remain.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“One should never say never.”
“One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.”
“One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time