O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material
“Only the penitent man will pass...”
Source: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
“Only the people can build their Nation individually and collectively. It is a sign that we are sick when we trust a select few to build our nation for us.”
“Only the people who are born of God can become victors and overcomers in this evil world”
“Only the people who are rooted in the house of God will thrive, prosper, become rich and still have joy in every situation”
“Only the people who are working the victory by faith will experience the joy of harvest”
“Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.”
“Only the perfect man can teach in silence, because he has reached it, and therefore he alone can stimulate it in others. He speaks through the silence infinitely more potently than through any human language. But those who are not yet Jivanmuktas naturally prefer to use speech and pen.”
Source: Concentration: A Guide to Mental Mastery
“Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.”
“Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.”
“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Only the person who risks is truly free”
“Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.”
“Only the petty keep count of the good they do for others, but the great does good every step of the way, yet never remembers them.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Only the petty keep tabs on even the tiniest favor they do for others, but the great does favors every step of the way, yet never remembers them.”
“Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.”
Source: Writings on religion
“Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.”
“Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack”
“Only the pleasures of the now are real. Everything else is but an illusion.”
Source: The Strange Adventures of Turquoise Moonwolf
“Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.”
“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together.”
“Only the police should have handguns.”
“Only the poor are handicapped by honor.”
Source: Cairo Modern: An Egyptian Novel
“Only the poor can create art.”
“Only the poor can feels the pain of Heavyweight laws.”
“Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.”
“Only the poor remained, those who had no money and nowhere else to go. Another governor, more merchants and soldiers would come to take the place of those that left. But the poor always stayed. They always stayed put. And they always stayed poor.”
Source: The Keys of Hell and Death
“Only the possibility of a journey creates space because space, before and after, becomes (is) the same; only the Way on a journey creates time, and the idea of the goal gives birth to time. Time does not measure time but the length of a passed road. The journey is space since nothing journeys (travels) from one to another or apart from one another. Nothing is ever separated; rather, all travel with all; all looks for itself within and in the other, and every path is the idea of the Being that finds itself on its journey because it is the Way.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.”
“Only the power of gospel of Christ can change a heart of stone to a heart of flesh.”
“Only the power of light illuminates our thoughts and our being.”
Source: From Poet's Hand
“Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity.”
“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.”
Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation
“Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.”
Source: Women, money & power
“Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.”
“Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”
Source: The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
“Only the present counts.”
“Only the present is real. The past and the future exist only in our imagination.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert
“Only the present moment contains life.”
Source: Happiness (EasyRead Edition)
“Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.”
“Only the promise of greater comforts kept me travelling.”
Source: Burying the Shadow
“Only the prophets are the true disciples of God.”
“Only the prophets see the obvious.”
“Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.”
Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
“Only the raindrops
Which falling on your shoulders,
Know my thirst.”
“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.”
“Only the rational and useful is beautiful.”