O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“One should never start one's day without a complete spin of Dark Side of the Moon.”
“One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.”
“One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.”
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
“One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore
“One should never underestimate the power of books.”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies
“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”
“One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”
“One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”
“One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.”
“One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.”
“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.”
“One should not be adventurous being a woman.”
“One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.”
Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson
“One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.”
“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”
“One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will throw you in a jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate in front of God? God won’t put you in jail, but his contentment towards you will break away.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won’t put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).”
“One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.”
“One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.”
“One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”
Source: A Sport and a Pastime
“One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.”
Source: Single-Minded
“One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.”
“One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.”
“One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.”
“One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.”
“One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi.”
“One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.”
“One should not, in any case, attempt to make a virtue out of one's limitations.”
Source: The Unconsoled
“One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.”
Source: WOF : Bhagat Singh
“One should not interpret 'vyavasthit' (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) as, ‘Nothing is going to happen outside of vyavasthit.’ If we want to say, "[It is] Vyavasthit," then our efforts should be there. It should be our desire to make some effort. Thereafter, whatever efforts vyavasthit makes us do, is correct! The effort [being made] should be sahaj (natural and spontaneous).”
Source: Worries
“One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.”
“One should not look down on this eagerness to be trendy—it belongs to the heart that is common to all. Day after day, night after night, it is this desire that holds up and sustain this city’s prosperity. This common heart, being pure and clear, is best able to take stock of the changing times. Like the evergreen, it is eternal.”
Source: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
Source: Memoirs
“One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.”
“One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.”
“One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.”
“One should not run on a new road.”
“One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.”
“One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.”
“One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.”
“One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.”
“One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.”
“One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.”
“One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.”
“One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.”
“One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna