O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only now do we value every breath that escapes our lips. Perhaps now we will learn to be grateful.”
“Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.”
Source: Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
“Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.”
Source: Santa: My Life and Times
“Only now I can’t remember, damn it, where the lies ended and I began. It’s all blurred. Everything suddenly seems to have become so messy, so gray, so undefined and terrifying. All I know is that things went terribly awry, this wasn’t the plan. The plan was to get better, to feel better, by any means. But I don’t feel better, I feel empty, empty and broken, still. And alone. More alone than ever before.”
Source: The Way I Used to Be
“Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were probably what the women called love.”
Source: I Who Have Never Known Men
“Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.”
“Only now, in rhythmic waves, was she struck by her stupidity, her blindness, her estheronautiness, and, above all, her longing, the insult of the power of her longing, and she knew very well that is was these shortcomings that had made her so eager to interweave in his story the threads of her secret dreams of candor and of painful, purifying honesty; of a generous togetherness in which everything was possible. For a moment, with all that had been spun and stabbed and defiled within her, her face took on the expression of a frightened, abandoned girl who lunges out to bite, who lives unimaginably close to the skin’s surface, ready to be drawn out like a final plan of retreat.”
Source: Her Body Knows
“Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“Only now that he had great swathes of time could he begin to have hobbies. This was why art was such an incalculable luxury: it sent out a message saying, "I have time to subcontract all the menial, dull chores out to others; I waste hours in idle contemplation of a piece of cloth covered in spots; I am an art lover; I am time-rich. I can mooch about in a sea of pickled sharks.”
Source: The Improbability of Love
“Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”
“Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever.”
Source: The Winter Without Milk: Whimsical and Cerebral Short Stories – Reimagining Oedipus, Lady Macbeth, Scheherezade
“Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.”
“Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
“Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless.”
Source: Personal geography: almost an autobiography
“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”
Source: Animal Farm
“Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job where Asian boobs and ass ran free.”
Source: The Red Lantern Scandals
“Only on one condition,' I said.
'You have a condition now?'
I nodded, my heart thundering. 'I don't want to pretend,' I whispered. 'I'm Poppy and you're Casteel, and this is real.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
“Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .”
Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences
“Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.”
“Only on the hard path can you actualize your potential, grow, mature, have peak human experiences and enjoy epiphanies. The hard path alone allows you to fulfill yourself. The easy path destroys your soul.”
Source: God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics
“Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.”
Source: Undiscovered Gyrl
“Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.”
“Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.”
“Only once did anyone speak loudly enough for Rand to hear clearly. "You must handle it," Moiraine said in answer to something unheard from Lan. "He will remember too much as it is, and no help for it. If I stand out in his thoughts...”
Source: The Eye of the World
“Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.”
Source: Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition
“Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.”
“Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.”
Source: Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel
“Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.”
“Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.”
“Only once in this lifetime, you get to capture the Magic and feel the music. Witness it, and make sure to live it!”
Source: A Life, Less Ordinary
“Only Once In Your Life”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you've never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.”
“Only once you can truthfully say you are grateful for your victimization have you transcended it.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are”
“Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.”
Source: Aphorisms and reflections
“Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.”
“Only one advantage still remained to Mandred, an edge that Vrrmik could never take from him. The soldiers who marched behind his banner were men and it was the hearts of men that beat within their breasts, hearts that could be moved to selflessness, could be stirred to valour and fired with courage. However numerous Vrrmik’s horde, they were skaven, they were cringing beasts driven by fear and greed, incapable of believing in anything more vital than their own skins. Terror and avarice were the forces that drove them on, but such things could only stretch so far, overcome only so much. Mandred’s troops could endure more than Vrrmik’s monsters. That was the one strength the skaven could never equal.”
Source: Wolf of Sigmar
“Only one answer will give a person the certain privilege, the joy, of entering heaven. “Because I have believed in Jesus Christ and accepted Him as my Savior.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Only one book is worth reading: the heart.”
“Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety’s off and I put on her. Oh stick ‘em up, stick ‘em up. Ready to shoot.”
“Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive.”
Source: Hopeless
“Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.”
“Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.”
“Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.”