O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only the fear of God, can deliver us from evil.”
“Only the fearless made proceed.
Brave ones, foolish ones.
Both walk not the middle road.”
“Only the federal government has the power to spend beyond its current revenue. It shouldn't do that when the economy is at full employment. But it's an essential step for an economy mired in recession.”
“Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.”
Source: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-town Life
“Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.”
“Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.”
“Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.”
“Only the fittest will survive.”
“Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.”
Source: Toward a Psychology of Being
“Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.”
“Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.”
Source: The Art of Perversity
“Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.”
“Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.”
“Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.”
“Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.”
“Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.”
“Only the fools are certain and assured.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.”
“Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again
“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.”
Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated
“Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).”
Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism
“Only the free mind knows what Love is.”
Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities
“Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.”
Source: Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure
“Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.”
“Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra”
“Only the friends you choose and those who choose you as their friend will often care about you.”
Source: Becoming True Friends In A Turbulent World
“Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.”
Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash
“Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.”
Source: Innovation and the General Manager
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
“only the gentlest hands can brush away tears”
“Only the Germans came out at night, like the undead, to celebrate their undisputed rule. They came to Le Lethe, uniforms gleaming, medals polished, voices loud, and René Bordelon greeted them in an exquisitely tailored dinner jacket, his smile unforced. Like Renfield, Eve thought, from Bram Stoker's tale: a human turned base and craven in the service of the nightwalkers.”
Source: The Alice Network
“Only the gods truly know the hearts of men, and women are full as strange.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“Only the good die young, the bad petite-mort”
Source: And That’s Why I’m Single
“Only the good die young.”
“Only the goodness of heart and an intellect to match can produce such a perfect woman in nature.”
Source: The Road Taken
“Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.”
“Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.”
“Only the gospel exposes the cancer of idolatry.”
Source: The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative
“Only the great can afford to have great defects.”
“Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“Only the great Souls can and know how to love.”
Source: Parsifal Unveiled: The Meaning of Richard Wagner’s Masterpiece
“Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.”
“Only the gullible would believe that maximizing value for shareholders comes in second to helping patients in Big Pharma's scheme of things.”
Source: The Truth About Statins: Risks and Alternatives to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“Only the half-mad are wholly alive.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Only the hand fails to throw as straight as the eye sees.”
Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
“Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!”
“Only the harshest personal experiences open our eyes to the immaculate possibilities and the splendor of our world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls