O Quotes
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“Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.”
“Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans learned that the United States had carried out an operation that resulted in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. I think we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for. And what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics.”
“Obviously, what's happening in China right now is crucial, in the party congress, which as someone said has anointed a new emperor of China in President Xi. So there's the rise of China, and their active involvement in the United States internally in our business and financial realms. That certainly bears watching.”
“Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.”
“Obviously, when I learn about something new that I can do in my everyday life that makes a whole lot of sense and can help the environment, I do it. Eventually, it just becomes second nature. If we all begin to learn from one another and share some of the things we do, we just might be able to affect the world for the better through these little rituals. In a curious way, this would be a great wave of awareness: doing the right thing without being told to or having to think why.”
“Obviously, when you're in theater, you have to be in character. You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don't necessarily happen every night, or aren't supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character. In six months, 192 shows, those things did happen. And the experience of that, the ability to stay in character, I feel like I've learned a great deal.”
“Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.”
Source: Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood
“Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.”
“Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.”
“Obviously, you can't operate a system at 100 percent capacity. You need room for growth. And because there are peak times, you need surge capacity. But it is easier to reduce and manage excess capacity in larger units than smaller, especially when you have a diversity of users who have different peak periods and different growth rates. That's why the utility model is intriguing.”
“Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.”
Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
“Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.”
“Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.”
“Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.”
“Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.”
“Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.”
“Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].”
“Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.”
“Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.”
“Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.”
“Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.”
“Obviously, you've got to make the chase first, so first things first - get in the chase. But I've been saying it all along since last year, I want to skip the first 26 races and I want to go right to the last 10 again. That's where they pay the money. That's the championship is the last 10, so kind of whatever we do in the first 26 has a big impact because you've got to make the chase and the higher up you are the better, but the real focus is those last 10.”
“Obviously, you've spent some time in New York. I moved there and it was a bit much. It was a bit overwhelming for me. I didn't want to go out. I just felt a little homesick. I was just waiting to feel excited about something. I went through a phase of feeling kind of dull. It's really easy to shut off in New York and stay in your apartment.”
“Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections
“Obwohl ihn immer wieder die Bilder verfolgen, als sie vor ein paar Wochen halbnackt, nur mit diesem losen Kimono bekleidet, vor ihm stand. Damals war er wie ein Feigling geflohen, aber nicht, weil er nicht gewusst hatte, was er sagen sollte, sondern, weil er seinen Händen nicht getraut hatte. Zusätzlich wollte er nicht, dass sie sah, wie eindeutig sein Körper auf sie reagierte. Zum Glück hatte er auch damals eine gutsitzende, verstärkte Lederhose getragen, die seinem verräterischen Judas in den südlichen Gefilden wenig Spielraum ließ.”
Source: Essenz der Götter I
“Obwohl wir alles hatten, alles was wir brauchten, um
glücklich zu sein – trotzdem sahen wir gern in den Himmel, in die unendliche Weite der Nacht. Und fragten uns, was da draußen noch auf uns wartete. Was das Leben wohl für uns bereithielt.”
Source: Seelenfall
“Oby Bóg uczynił bezpiecznym każdy mój krok,
Oby Bóg otworzył dla mnie każdą przełęcz,
Oby Bóg oczyścił każdą z moich dróg
I oby zawsze brał mnie w swoje Święte Dłonie.”
Source: The Fiery Cross
“Obyvatelé antického Řecka se ve volném čase věnovali hudbě nebo jiným uměním, včetně tělesného umění – sportu. V umění je politický cíl v různé míře vždy přítomný. Je touhou měnit představu lidí o společnosti, o kterou chtějí usilovat, a o světě, ve kterém chtějí žít. Názor, že sport by neměl mít nic společného s politikou, je tak sám o sobě politickým postojem.”
“Obélix, mange et ne fais pas de commentaires! En Bretagne, il faut faire comme les Bretons!”
“Občas jsou v životě prostě chvíle, kdy si člověk uvědomí, jaké malichernosti řešil a jak málo na nich záleží. A mezi ně patří i snaha zalíbit se druhým a potlačovat přitom sebe samého. Strašná hloupost.”
Source: Léto mezi řádky
“Occam's Razor is a term plagiarized by the fact it is not easy to find its source and meaning. My attempts to find an author lead me nowhere, and I can only find unsatisfactory descriptions of how it works. Therefore, it is meaningless to me and I will use it as a placeholder to define:
That which is unnecessary tends to be false.
Necessity is by purpose.
Therefore, purpose writes itself.
Now, I have a tool.”
“Occam's razor."
"Yes. When formulating a theory, eliminate as few assumptions as possible. In other words, the simplest explanation is the most likely.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort.”
Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
“Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.”
“Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.”
“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.”
“Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.”
Source: The Most Successful American Privateer: An Episode of the War of 1812
“Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.”
“Occasionally a car swooshed by in the rain and its headlights would swing round momentarily and illuminate the room-the pool table, snowshoes on the wall and the rowing machine, the armchair in which Henry sat, motionless, a glass in his hand and the cigarette burning low between his fingers. For a moment his face, pale and watchful as a ghost's, would be caught in the headlights and then, very gradually, it would slide back into the dark.”
Source: The Secret History
“Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.”
“Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.”
Source: Summer Time in the Country
“Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.”
“Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion
“Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.”
Source: Experimental Researches In Chemistry And Physics
“Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?”
“Occasionally at a Center Meeting, not that often, every couple of months, I'll break down and demonstrate a little mystical kundalini; but not that often, simply because it wouldn't be that effective.”
“Occasionally, at the moment of the first star in the still bright sky, under a shower of shimmering light, I thought I knew. I did know, in truth. I still know, perhaps. But no one wants any of this secret; I don’t want any myself, doubtless; and I cannot stand apart from my people.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Occasionally during the day, ask yourself: "How am I doing today and what can I do to do a better job?”
“Occasionally even I fall short in the strength department, and in those times of heartache and loneliness, never do I say, "please, take away my weakness", instead I utter, to whom I don't know, and I don’t care, "give me strength". Or perhaps, I do know to whom I am saying it, but it took me a long time to accept the hard reality of the matter. As long as I keep it a secret as to who is the source of my strength, people will speculate and bring in all sorts of mystical notions, due to the lack of facts, but the moment I reveal to you most blatantly and rather clearly that, I am the source of my own strength, then suddenly all the mysticism and mystery vanish into thin air, and what remains is the exuberant radiance of truth.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy have hung large pieces of cloth over each window in the nursery. But as the person grows older, the idea of curtains becomes clearer through the prism of experience. The person will learn the word "curtains" and notice that they are actually quite handy for keeping a room dark when it is time to sleep, and for decorating an otherwise boring window area. Eventually, they will entirely accept the idea of curtains of their own, or venetian blinds, and it is all due to the prism of experience.”
Source: The Austere Academy