O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.”
“Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.”
“Only three people have silenced the Maracanã - the Pope, Frank Sinatra and me (Alcides Ghiggia)”
Source: Goal!: I Scored a Goal in a World Cup Final
“Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.”
Source: Get Smart!
“Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.”
“Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love”
“Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”
“Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.”
Source: The Help
“Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.”
“Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.”
“Only through absolute submission can the soul ascend through dance.”
Source: The Book of Dance
“Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.”
“Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.”
“Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.”
“Only through communication can human life hold meaning.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?”
Source: The Last American Man
“Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.”
“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Source: Fight Club
“Only through diversity of opinion is there, in the existing state of the human intellect, a chance of fair play to all sides of the truth.”
Source: On Liberty
“only through fear can the spirit of war be broken”
“Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.”
“Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.”
“Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.”
Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom
“Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.”
“Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.”
Source: How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships
“Only through love can we obtain communion with God.”
“Only through love will we find our way to create a world worthy of our children and our grandchildren.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
“only through new words might new worlds be called into order”
Source: , said the shotgun to the head.
“Only through pain do we gain knowledge. Only suffering grants us wisdom. Only in sacrifice can we become powerful.”
Source: The City of Lost Fortunes
“Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.”
“Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.”
“Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.”
“Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.”
“Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.”
Source: Defy the Stars
“Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.”
“Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.”
“Only through struggle, have I found rest.”
“Only through suffering can we find ourselves.”
“Only through suffering do we learn”
“Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.”
“Only through the conversion of time can greatness be bought.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Only through the Destruction of my Muscle Fibers until Pain Threshold, I'm able to calm the blazing Fire inside my Chest and obtain the total Control over my Mind.”
“Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.”
“Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those who make us suffer; chastity in every age and situation of life; patience in suffering and when one is shocked by the silence of God in the tragedies of history or of one's own personal existence. You must always be Eucharistic souls in order to be authentic Christians”
“Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach that level at which the divine might be glimpsed, a dissolution of individuality was necessary. The tragic quality of the group was also necessary, the quality that constantly raised the group out of the abandon and torpor into which it was prone to lapse, leading it to an ever-mounting shared suffering and so to death, which was the ultimate suffering. The group must be open to death — which meant, of course, that it must be a community of warriors.”
Source: Sun & Steel
“Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds”
“Only through the Sacrifice it is possible for an inferior energy to be transformed into energy of a superior and different type.”