O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a web which looked to her as though the Milky Way had begun to fall like snow. The unicorn whispered, 'Weaver, freedom is better, freedom is better,' but the spider fled unhearing up and down her iron loom.”
“Only the spirit nourishes the soul.”
“Only the spirit of Christ Jesus empowered us for the great Commission, a command we must faithfully obey.”
“Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.”
“Only the steps of a one-step long journey can be taken all at the same time.”
“Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.”
“Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.”
“Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.”
“Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.”
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
“only the strong can stop a fight with kindness”
“Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.”
“Only the strong knew what suffering was. The weak never found themselves in the strong webs; the strong man was the one who found himself day and night bound and struggling, so that the work he did, the plotting and the owning and the buying, the decisions he made—and in a large family there had been many to make—were often hard-fibered.”
Source: The Land Breakers
“Only the strong survive.”
“Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.”
Source: Archangel
“Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.”
Source: The Education of a Speculator
“Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.”
“Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.”
Source: My Mortal Enemy
“Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.”
“Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.”
“Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.”
“Only the suffering God can help.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Only the summit can illuminate its own insignificance.”
Source: The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
“Only the suppressed word is dangerous.”
“Only the Supreme Being_Allah is Perfect!
For humans intention of being a perfectionist can cause sudden downfall and disgrace even below average.”
“Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.”
“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.”
“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the apparently (until they are broken) insignificant connections--have all vanished.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“Only the sweet innocence of childhood could make this music. Let’s appreciate their senseless yet timeless music while we have it.”
Source: The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel
“Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly”
“Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.”
“Only the things we are still holding on to can vanish into the past. If we no longer have it, it can’t be lost that way. Can’t vanish anywhere. Nonexistent, it is nonetheless unable, forever, to go.”
Source: Manazuru
“Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.”
“Only the thirsty knows the real taste of water; only the lonely knows the real weight of emptiness!”
“Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.”
“Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“Only the train of memories runs on a disused railroad!”
“Only the traveler knows the details of the journey.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Only the trees, only the trees. Like a key they see beyond the mystery, waiting patiently ever holding me while I hold the sky.”
Source: Blissful Musings: A Lyrical, Cosmic Dance of Embrace
“Only the truly evil do not believe in civil disobedience under any circumstance. If you refuse to disobey when the government demands that you commit atrocities, you are devoid of values. Every man with a conscience has some line in the sand over which the Government may not pass!”
Source: Survival Guide: Living Boldly in Trying Times
“Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving.”
Source: The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004
“Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!”
Source: Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)
“Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.”
“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Only the truth shall free us.”
“Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.”
“Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne”
“Only the unique is universal.”
“Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.”