O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
Source: DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA
“Only the unity of all can bring the well-being of all.”
“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.”
“Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure”
“Only the unselfish live, rest trudge through life as slaves to prehistoric tendencies.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Only the untended bonsai tree in the corner of the room didn't try to control Zaria.”
Source: All Things Weird & Strange
“Only the vanquished remember history.”
“Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.”
Source: Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
“Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.”
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Only the victor gets to write history; where half of the facts are distorted and the other half invented.”
“Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited
“Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that is sanctioned both socially and aesthetically. The male hero and acts of heroism require violence. Everyone is okey dokey with that. We are only beginning to see that constricting set of truths open up a little.”
“Only the virtuous man jumps over his shadow.”
“Only the Vitraags (the enlightened ones) can take a beating from the weak, no one else can.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Only the vulnerable can become brave.”
Source: 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning: How to Unlock Your Mind, Happiness, Power, and Your Enemy's Demise
“Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Only the weak are corrupted by power. The strong judiciously use it as a tool in service to others”
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
“Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.”
“Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.”
“Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear.”
Source: Troll Or Derby
“Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.”
“Only the willingness of learning can make you learn. The person who doesn't want to learn can never learn”
Source: Attainable
“Only the winner and coward may survive.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Only the winners decide what were war crimes.”
“Only the wise will realise.”
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
Source: The Analects
“Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.”
“Only the words that you speak with your heart will reach another heart, but those spoken with mere lips will reach nowhere.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.”
“Only the world of Oneness and Unity (Singularity) is a universal reality without hierarchies. Still, the World of plurality and dispersed Oneness is the world of hierarchies, orders, degrees of life, understanding, and evolution. In a World of total Oneness, there is no evolution. Evolution and real life are only possible when they become less “real,” when something leads to something else, when something seeks something else, when something is bigger than something else, and when we crave and desire. The purpose of reality is life. The real way of life is motion. Without motion, there is no life. What secures the motion, whether matter is real or a product of a Universal Mind, is less important than the ultimate purpose of it all, and the ultimate purpose is to preserve life and meaning against nothingness.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)”
“Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.”
“Only the wounded physician heals.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works”
“Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance.”
Source: Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“Only the young can be so stubborn, so decisive in the face of their own fear.”
Source: Human Acts
“Only the young die good.”
Source: The Complete Cynic
“Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.”
Source: Gitanjali
“Only their children return; only the future revisits the past.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Only their efforts to make him talk failed. He would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence—his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.”
Source: Clear light of day
“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“Only then, as she prepared to cross the avenue, did she again spot the man in the fedora hat. He was at the opposite side of the street from where he’d stood before, but the caramel color of his coat was unmistakable. He was loitering in front of what looked like a Ford V8 parked nose-up on the sidewalk. Florence adjusted her shawl over her shoulders and crossed to the opposite corner of the plaza. When she turned back to look again, he was gone”
Source: The Patriots
“Only then could he have a sad waffle with no syrup on it for breakfast. He didn’t think his mother made them properly: rumor in the village had it that waffles weren’t supposed to be gray.”
Source: Kill the Farm Boy
“Only then did he hear the small gasp—a soundless cry—and feel his mother’s cold fingers tightening on his arm. He turned toward her. Saw the red stain spreading across the front of her dress where the sword had driven in. Through him. Through her. There, just above her heart. The too-small hole of a too-great wound. His mother’s eyes met his.
“Rhy,” she said, a small, disconcerted crease between her brows, the same face she’d made a hundred times whenever he and Kell got into trouble, whenever he shouted or bit his nails or did anything that wasn’t princely.
The furrow deepened, even as her eyes went glassy, one hand drifting toward the wound, and then she was falling. He caught her, stumbled as the sudden weight tore against his open, ruined chest.
“No, no, no,” he said, sinking with her to the prismed floor. No, it wasn’t fair. For once, he’d been fast enough. For once, he’d been strong enough. For once—
“Rhy,” she said again, so gently—too gently.
“No.”
Her bloody hands reached for his face, tried to cup his cheek, and missed, streaking red along his jaw.
“Rhy …”
His tears spilled over her fingers.
“No.”
Her hand fell away, and her body slumped against him, still, and in that sudden stillness, Rhy’s world narrowed to the spreading stain, the lingering furrow between his mother’s eyes.
Only then did the pain come, folding over him with such sudden force, such horrible weight, that he clutched his chest and began to scream.”
Source: A Conjuring of Light