O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.”
“Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.”
“Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.”
“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls
I’m talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs”
“Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.”
“Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians.”
Source: Kolyma Stories
“Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.”
“Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.”
Source: A Casual Commentary
“Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love”
“Only one, I noted, was a little smarter and better fed than the others, his clothes slightly less threadbare, and I wondered what wickedness – pickpocketing, perhaps, or burglary – had furnished him with the means not just to survive but, in his own way, to prosper. He could not have been more than thirteen years old and yet, like all of them, he was already quite grown up. Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”
Source: The House of Silk
“Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”
Source: Not Knowing Whither: The Steps of Abraham's Faith
“Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.”
“Only one is a wanderer.
And when she was sad, she'd go into the streets to be with people.”
“Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever ‘degree’ one is sitting at, that ‘degree’ of religion he requires.”
“Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.”
“Only one kiss. That was what he had intended. But Ciera’s lips were sweet like the juice of a pomegranate, and her skin under his hands felt like velvet. When she put her arms around him, he deepened the kiss, pulling the pins out of her hair until it cascaded over her shoulders. The tiny jingle of the bits of metal falling to the floor was almost lost in the moan she let out when he moved his lips down her neck, and then he was lost too.”
Source: Dangerously Divine
“Only one knows, speaks, and lives according to what he has within. One who has the universe within him knows the true meaning of the universe. Living as the will of the universe by becoming the universe is true life.”
Source: The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living
“Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.”
“Only one life, it will soon be past,
only what’s done for Christ will last.”
Source: A Woman After God's Own Heart
“Only one life, a few brief years,
Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears;
Each with its clays I must fulfill.
living for self or in His will;
Only one life, 'twill soon be past,
Only what s done for Christ will last.”
“Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”
“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me”
“Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.”
Source: The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
“Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.”
“Only one more day to go. Surely even I couldn't mess that up. As usual, I didn't have a clue how wrong I was.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
“Only one music comes out of me.”
“Only one night a year brought this kind of stillness—a quiet that hummed with the possibility of everything the villagers feared, Halloween." Chapter 1”
Source: Whispers of the Halloween Night: A Forbidden Love with Dark Secrets Beneath the Full Moon
“Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.”
“Only one number can stake any claim to any special status, and that is zero – the origin – upon which all other numbers depend. It is the perfect balance point of all the other numbers, which is why the monad is the “container” of all other numbers, their source. There it is, slap bang in the middle of the Euler unit circle, controlling all. It’s the SOUL of the circle.”
Source: The God Equation
“Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.”
“Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her. 'Come on, you can do better than that!' he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room. The second jet of light hit him squarely in the chest. The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.”
“Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old, and my mom dressed me up in a church dress and stockings to go to the party and park.”
“Only one person," he whispered to her. "Only one thing.”
Source: Storm's Heart
“Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.”
“Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.”
“Only one person in the room didn't cry that day and it was the man hunched on a chair, singing passionately from the darkest corners of his soul.”
“Only one person in this house was allowed to shed tears, and it wasn't me”
Source: The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
“Only one person needs to believe in you, and that's YOU.”
“Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) party - Dennis Slamon. Having spent the afternoon planning the next phase of Herceptin trials with breast oncologists at ASCO, Slamon had jumped into his rundown Nissan and driven home.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency.”
Source: How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country
“Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.”
“Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN
“Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.”
Source: The Less Deceived