O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only the “˜intercourse’ part.” Miranda makes quotation marks with her fingers. “Why do they call it intercourse anyway? It makes it sound like it’s some kind of conversation. Which it isn’t. It’s penetration, pure and simple. There’s no give-and-take involved.”
“It’s an act of war,” Miranda objects, getting heated.
“The penis is saying, “˜Let me in,’ and the vagina is saying, “˜Get the hell away from me, creep.”
Source: Summer and the City
“Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.”
Source: Labour in Irish History
“Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.”
“Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge”
“Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Only the leaders and famous people will be remembered. The rest will be like pieces on the chessboard.”
“Only the liar knows he's lying”
“Only the liberals and soft-leftists persist in agonizing as they give their (actually unqualified) loyalty, in advance, to people who publicly spit on them. I don’t know whether the masochist or the sadist commits the greater evil, but I do know that you can’t have one without the other.”
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
Source: Entdeckung Des Orgons
“Only the life within hm was real, the anguished beating of his heart, the nostalgic sting of longing, the joys and fears of his dreams. To them he belonged; to them he abandoned himself. Suddenly, in the middle of a page or a lesson, surrounded by his classmates, he'd sink into himself and forget everything, listening only to the rivers and voices inside himself which drew him away, into deep wells filled with dark melodies, into colorful abysses full of fairy-tale deeds, and all the sounds were like his mother's voice, and the thousands of eyes all were his mother's eyes.”
“Only the lighted houses remaining, the lemon blush of their inhabited windows.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking
“Only the living can learn from their mistakes.”
Source: Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
“Only the living souls can praise the living God.”
“Only the living water can satisfied our thirst.”
“Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.”
Source: The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography
“Only the Lord God gives everlasting life.”
“Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.”
Source: The Reason for My Hope: Salvation
“Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.”
“Only the Lord leads us to walk in the path of light.”
“Only the loss remains which can never be recuperated. The event is over. The event has been overcome and yet the loss is only beginning. Every day it grows deeper. More and more is forgotten. Less and less is really known for certain. And nothing will ever bring his father back from the realm of memory into the reassuringly concrete world of material fact. Tangible and specific fact. And how - how is it possible to accept this or even to understand what it means?”
Source: Intermezzo
“Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.”
“Only the mad girls chase me, I think.”
“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”
“Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“Only the Maker knows the final moment of mortals.”
“Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.”
“Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.”
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”
Source: The Coming World Civilization
“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.”
Source: Incarceron
“Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free”
Source: In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message
“Only the man who says no is free”
“Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.”
Source: Healology
“Only the man who
truly understands what
going deeper really means
will know how to satisfy
a woman's needs.”
“Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.”
Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
“Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!”
“Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.”
“Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.”
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
Source: Choice of the Elect
“Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.”
“Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.”
“Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”
Source: Anthony Adverse
“Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.”
“Only the mind knows what it takes to not mind the heart.”
“Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.”
Source: On Freedom
“Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.”
“Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.”