O Quotes
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“Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.”
“Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgement by that name; in reality it is a constant court in perpetual session.”
“Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.”
“Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981
“Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who tell you to face reality and let go of your imagination. All they may truly ask for is that you shift your imagination from what you want to what they want.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”
“Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.”
“Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable
advantage in all instances.”
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.”
“Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it. It puzzles our minds; we are unable to describe it in words; it is a sensation that our eyes cannot see, derived from both the one who observes and the one who is looked upon. Real beauty is a ray which emanates from the holy of holies of the spirit, and illuminates the body, as life comes from the depths of the earth and gives colour and scent to a flower.”
Source: The Broken Wings
“Only out of a great delusion would I say, We have learned how to send men to the moon. No such thing is true. We have not. Somebody has, to be sure, but not "we". We have not wiped out polio, nor have we learned the secret of atomic energy. A few of us, and a very few of us, have done all such things. Unless I remember that, I am continually subject to the delusion that tells me that I am somehow "better" and more "advanced" than my very distant ancestors who painted pictures on the walls of caves, and just because I happen to be a member of we.”
Source: The Gift of Fire
“Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!”
Source: Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
“Only pain can define the meaning of tears.”
“Only pain is free.
For Happiness you need to pay, and the price is your kindness”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.”
“Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.”
Source: London Fields
“Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.”
Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia
“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
“Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.”
“Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.”
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
“Only pay attention to your own silence, nothing around you exists. And then, listen.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Two
“Only peace between equals can last.”
“Only peace can save the world and only love can create a liveable earth!”
“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”
“Only people can change people”
Source: Omnilogos
“Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.”
“Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.”
“Only people that have faith in themselves reign on earth”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Only people that have faith in themselves rule on earth”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.”
Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden
“Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.”
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Source: Complete Works
“Only people who are far ahead of their time can create very deep and very intelligent changes in their own time!”
“Only people who are living a purposeful or focused life can talk about converting their time into concrete products or value chains”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Only people who are well off can be - complex.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“Only people who believe deeply and almost fanatically in a dream can struggle so hard with inner doubt and conflict, and without losing, in the presence of frequent disagreement on particulars, a deep sense of purpose and mutual respect.”
Source: Models of My Life
“Only people who believe in themselves are able to do exploits”
“Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.”
“Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.”
“Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day.”
Source: To Paradise
“Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day.”
Source: To Paradise
“Only people who have a world-historical perspective can change history. The average person has only a domestic, ahistorical perspective. Look at social media. It’s full of people without a clue what’s going on. Immense historical forces have been unleashed all around them, and all they care about is posting their brain-dead, vacuous observations and their self-pitying, whining woe-is-me statements about how shitty their lives are and how no one understands them. As well as countless memes and selfies, of course. You just have to love those lolcats on skateboards, right, hoomans? They are forever trapped in their parochial little world of trivia. Why are our books so unsuccessful? It’s because they announce, with the volume of Stentor at Troy, a world-historic agenda, but we are surrounded by pygmies who stare at us like cows in line at the abattoir.”
Source: The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning
“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.”
Source: Under the Eye of God
“Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.”
“Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.”
“Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.”
Source: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs