O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.”
Source: Notebooks
“OpenInkStand on YouTube has excellent videos of Spencerian cursive script in action.”
“Openlijk narcisme hangt samen met extravert en agressief gedrag. Verborgen narcisme hangt samen met introvert en angstig gedrag.”
Source: De narcistische wereld ontvlucht
“Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded me. The morning was beautiful like your smile.”
“Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.”
“Openly supporting refugees today is like coming out as gay in the 1980s - kindness is in short supply.”
Source: Life As A Kite
“Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.”
“Openness and acceptance to change will enrich your life. They will soften your responses.”
Source: Edge of Knowing
“Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.”
“Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows”
“Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.”
“Openness gives us the necessary humility to accept, or at the least entertain, the concept that our inability to explain certain things does not render them false or unreal.”
Source: Intuition: Discover the Inner Workings of our World - Book 1
“Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.”
“Openness in political decision-making matters. It is key to maintaining confidence in public institutions and to achieving fairness and due process.”
Source: Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models
“Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.”
Source: The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
“Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.”
“Openness is like a sport, we need to practice it every day to get the best ability to be open to others’ ideas after some time.”
Source: When Life Makes Sense: Exploring the meaning of life through science, philosophy and faith
“Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.”
“Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.”
“Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.”
“Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.”
“Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God’s character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.”
Source: Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent
“Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.”
Source: The Hanged Man: Psychotherapy and the Forces of Darkness
“Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.”
Source: Create Your Own Religion: A How-To Book without Instructions
“Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
“Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.”
“Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.”
“Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.”
“Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is that I also happen to love Jesus. When I'm approaching these songs, I'm not approaching them like Mozart. I see my faith and the struggle of my ancestors and of a people seeking freedom beside what these songs are going to be in terms of their arrangement and delivery.”
“Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart.”
Source: Levels of Life
“Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.”
Source: Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You've silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness, and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished your physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”
Source: The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire
“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”
“Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.”
“Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.”
“Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.”
“Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.”
“Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?”
“Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.”
“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”
“Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.”
“Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.”
Source: Bubbles: an encore
“Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.”
“Opera is something you have to educate yourself about. You have to make sure you understand the stories, what was happening politically, socially during the time these things were made and how they've changed through history.”
“Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.”
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”