O Quotes
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“Or, am I inconsequential to it all? A random, forgettable moment in your delicate, pastel existence?”
Source: Raw Thoughts
“OR am I the only warlock you know?" "No... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.”
“Or- and I know this is ridiculous, but hear me out- we could just not get shot anymore,”
Source: The Disasters
“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?”
Source: Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott
“Or are you suggesting you'd rather exchange passionate letters by candlelight?
Should I tell you that when we're apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I've just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?
I think perhaps Hamilton said it better in a letter to Eliza: You engross my thoughts too intirely to allow me to think of any thing else- you not only employ my mind all day; but you intrude upon my sleep. I meet you in every dream- and when I wake I cannot close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetness.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Or are you suggesting you'd rather exchange passionate letters by candlelight?
Should I tell you that when we're apart, your body comes back to me in dreams? That when I sleep, I see you, the dip of your waist, the freckle above your hip, and when I wake up in the morning, it feels like I've just been with you, the phantom touch of your hand on the back of my neck fresh and not imagined? That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?
I think perhaps Hamilton said it better in a letter to Eliza: You engross my thoughts too intirely to allow me to think of any thing else- you not only employ my mind all day; but you intrude upon my sleep. I meet you in every dream- and when I wake I cannot close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetness.
We can't change the world, and a lot of time we can't even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to...be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
“Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.”
Source: Chaucer
“Or as Gabe had done, to rescue your betrothed from some evil force. That appealed to him. But he'd yet to find a damsel in distress, oppressed by evil and in need of rescue.”
Source: The Captive Maiden
“Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'”
“Or as one friend of mine put it, 'In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.”
Source: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Or, at the very least, turn me little again.' He wiped his eyes with a sleeve, and stared at the plate of mung bean cakes. 'Little enough that all I wanted to reach for was the banquet table. When all I knew to desire was a sweet cake. And even if everyone punished me, or yelled at me, or hated me, at least back then I didn’t know why. If you can’t turn me into a fish, at least turn me little.”
Source: The Poet Empress
“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.”
“Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.”
“Or, cine isi cunoaste clipa de fata, pana nu devine trecut? Sensul ei total ne apare mai tarziu, asa cum mergand pe un drum necunoscut, desi avem iluzia ca il cunoastem cu fiecare pas pe care il facem, abia uitandu-ne in urma ne dam seama cat de drept sau de sinuos a fost...”
Source: Viața ca o pradă
“Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the account of the apple, the Tree of Knowledge, the Fall, and the expulsion from Eden.) In The Garden, God tells Eve and Adam that He has intentionally left the Universe unfinished. It is the responsibility of humans, over countless generations, to participate with God in a "glorious" experiment - the "completing of the Creation."
The burden of such a responsibility is heavy, especially on so weak and imperfect a species as ours, one with so unhappy a history. Nothing remotely like "completion" can be attempted without vastly more knowledge than we have today. But, perhaps, if our very existence is at stake, we will find ourselves able to rise to this supreme challenge.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Or consider another field where one can use games to implant an understanding of basic principles. All scientific thinking is in terms of probability. The old eternal verities are merely a high degree of likeliness; the immutable laws of nature are just statistical averages. How does one get these profoundly unobvious notions into children’s heads? By playing roulette with them, by spinning coins and drawing lots. By teaching them all kinds of games with cards and boards and dice.”
Source: Island
“Or consider the relative power of the three branches of government ... some political scientists claim that a fourth branch - the CIA, National Security Council, and other covert agencies - has developed in the last thirty years. The Constitution cannot save democracy when officials in the FBI, CIA, State Department, and undercover agencies determine not only our policies but also how much the people, the Congress, and perhaps even the president need to know about them.”
“Or could it be that there is something about globalisation itself that produces local culture, and promotes the constant formation of new forms of local identity, dress, cuisine, music, dance and language?”
Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
“Or deep down, maybe there was more. Maybe I wanted someone to figure out who wrote the note and secretly come to my rescue.
Maybe. I don’t know. But I was careful never to give myself away.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Or did I know by intuition that wonderful and terrible things were really imminent at last, trembling into being just behind the curtain of the future?”
Source: The Black Prince
“Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Or do you like being frightened?”
Hugh, though generally intelligent, is dense in certain ways; this is one of them.
“Why, of course, I like being frightened,” I said. “I want to be made to creep and creep and creep. Fear is the most absorbing and luxurious of emotions. One forgets all else if one is afraid.”
“Or does he even have a soul? Actually, each one of us has one; some just never reach out to their own soul…”
“Or even a solo trip - if the yoga teacher was correct, wasn't it my duty as a human being with eyes and legs and a beat-beat-beating heart to experience things, to explore? All the hand-wringing about women tempting fate by going on adventures, how it was our responsibility to protect ourselves... wasn't it simply a way to keep women's lives small? To keep us cowering at home, controlled, contained?”
Source: We Were Never Here
“Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night..." Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.”
“Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.”
“Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you were a Christian Slave. I saw, I took, I cast you by, I bent and broke your pride... And a myriad suns have set and shone, since then upon the grave, Decreed by the King in Babylon, to her that had been his slave. The pride I trampled is now my scathe, for it tramples me again. The old remnant lasts like death for you love, yet you refrain. I break my heart on your hard unfaith, and I break my heart in vain.”
“Or, femeia nu poate decât să se deschidă şi să primească... E ceva împotriva legilor firii, înţelegi tu?... E o adevărată tragedie... Existenţa nu e doar un fenomen de înghiţire a lumii, ci şi un fenomen de asimilare... Noi trăim ca să mâncăm lumea şi ceea ce mâncăm se face una cu noi, nu se mai întoarce afară, sau se întoarce, da, intri în budă şi se întoarce, dar asta nu contează... Ce vreau să spun e că sexualitatea femeii constă într-o permanentă frustrare şi că frustrarea asta cuprinde tot, pielea, părul, ochii, unghiile, oasele... N-ai observat că femeile îmbătrânesc mai repede decât bărbaţii? Când o primeşti în tine şi apoi eşti obligată s-o dai afară e ca şi cum existenţa ţi-ar da cu tifla...”
Source: Pupa russa
“Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.”
“Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.”
“OR give me praise or give me blame
Each I would learn to bear,
But teach me not that hateful name
Indifference to hear.”
Source: The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations
“Or had I come with a far more menial purpose? To find him living alone, waiting for me, craving to be taken back to B.? Yes, both our lives on the same artificial respirator, waiting for that time when we'd finally meet and scale our way back to the Piave memorial.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?”
Source: The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus
“Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.”
“Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”
“Or how cornmeal was better than flour because it had weight, and having weight is how you know your worth, so don't let anyone tell you different.”
Source: Other Birds
“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole world through the relation of supply and demand—a relation which, as an English economist says, hovers over the earth like the fate of the ancients, and with invisible hand allots fortune and misfortune to men, sets up empires and overthrows empires, causes nations to rise and to disappear—while with the abolition of the basis of private property, with the communistic regulation of production (and implicit in this, the destruction of the alien relation between men and what they themselves produce), the power of the relation of supply and demand is dissolved into nothing, and men get exchange, production, the mode of their mutual relation, under their own control again?”
Source: The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
“Or: I am only trying to slither back into my first skin.
Or: I am only trying to remember how it felt not to leak.”
Source: Soft Science
“Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.”
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that.”
“Or, I suppose, you could just name every place of residence the same thing, like how someone would name all the dachshunds of their lives Eleanor. You disappear the loss under a facade of continuity. Eleanor and Eleanor and Eleanor.”
Source: Home Making
“Or I will get the best or nothing… no need somebody to swallow my material, I'm already a big boy.”
“Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.”
“or if I stand
if I move one hand
I hear the hiss of flowers closing their eyelids”
Source: Falling Awake
“Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.”