O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.”
“Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.”
“Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.”
“Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again.”
Source: Wayward
“Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.”
“Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.”
“Only recently have we begun to understand the specific cognitive skills that contribute to business success and how to measure them. Hopefully, this insight will allow us to more keenly focus our attention on indentifying and cultivating decision-making abilities in the executive population.”
“Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.”
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize”
“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”
“Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.”
“Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.”
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
“Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.”
“Only reincarnation can alleviate the fear of death. Thus, causing human beings to refer to it with all soft names.”
“Only religion can lead to such evil.”
“Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.”
“Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.”
“Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.”
“Only relinquish all things into My hands: for I can work freely only as ye release Me by complete committal both of thyself and others. Even as was written of old: "Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in Him: and He shall bring it to pass". (Psalms 37:5) I will be thy sustaining strength; and My peace shall garrison thy mind. Only TRUST ME that all I do is done in love.”
Source: Come Away My Beloved
“Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.”
Source: Soldier of Rome: The Legionary
“Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Only repeated knock will open the door.”
“Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.”
“Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.”
“Only rice likes to be drowned. The war is the worst scream. (Seul aime être noyé le riz. - La guerre est le pire des cris.)”
“Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.”
“Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.”
“Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as bad as the people who need St. Patty's Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know.”
Source: I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
“Only sage is the idiot.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“only said you loved me
one time i cornered you...
now i understand
only want the tightest hand
to just let go,
yeah, letting you go, go, go
ready, set, go
ready, set, go
ready, set, GO!!!
Now, I'm racing so slow!
Snails RRR running the show!
At my own pace, LET GO!
Said, pour another, Moe,
I'm just tryin' to let go...”
Source: Altered States of the Unflinching Souls
“Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.”
“Only saints have infinite capacity of gratitude, Normal people have limited capacity, If you are doing so much favour to someone that they won’t be able to return it, it may make them feel guilty, not grateful.”
“Only Scammers argue for a value that is not evident”
“Only
school friends
know the real truth
of all those nonsensical talks and keep them sequestered.
Times like these
never come back
and memories never leave.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.”
“Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.”
“Only seconds slip by without me scrambling for the aid of someone better, more knowledgeable, to walk beside. Writers are good for that. They like nothing more than to tell you what they know.
Dorothy Sayers, with all her essays and treatises, was good for that. Are women human? What constitutes the mind of the Maker? How did Dante survive the Inferno? Ask Dorothy; she’ll tell you and gladly.”
Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations
“Only secret to success is determination.”
“Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.”
“Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.”
“Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.”
“Only Self, Can Find Itself.”
“Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.”
“Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.”
Source: Herzog
“Only sensitivity to our own experience can drag us back from self-deception,”
Source: Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety
“Only sensual women can reignite men’s creativity and fire. They can increase their will to work hard and reach their fullest potential.”
“Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.”
Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
“Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.”
Source: Mao II
“Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
Source: Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology
“Only she who trusts nothing can know real peace.”