O Quotes
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“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There's something very beautiful in that. It was worth making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It's worth it.”
Source: Kieslowski on Kieslowski
“Or, tant que les féministes continueront à revendiquer une égalité entre hommes et femmes, elles continueront à conserver, perpétuer et justifier une différenciation entre les personnes, et donc des positions de dominants et dominées. C’est une impasse logique.”
Source: Sortir de l'hétérosexualité
“Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?”
Source: Forget You
“Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“or the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word never. And it's really awful. You say the word a hundred times a day but you don't really know what you're saying until you're faced with a real "never again."”
“Or the guy I went to homecoming with, who vanished halfway through the dance, and I found out later he’d been arrested for covering the principal’s car with chicken nuggets?”
“How did he do that?”
“Apparently barbecue sauce is fairly sticky.”
Source: Picture-Perfect Boyfriend
“or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.”
“Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.”
“Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them.”
Source: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
“Or the woman in front of me in the security line who asked if they would put her cat, Dave, through the luggage X-ray machine because she wanted to see if he'd eaten a necklace.”
Source: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“Or there's peer tutoring. Oh my god. I'm tutoring the cutest little second grader right now. I totally taught her how to stay within the lines with her eyeshadow.”
Source: Princess Mia
“Or they laughed at Indiana, because the people there proudly call themselves Hoosiers even though they have no idea what Hoosier means. Some historians believe it comes from the Shawnee expression “ho’o-sa’ars,” or “people who cannot explain their nickname.” - from Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland”
“Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.”
Source: Out of this world: science fiction and fantasy
“or those who have one, please use your voice. So many of us don't have that ability.”
“Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)
“Or, to choose another example, we feel that freedom of speech is the last step in the march of victory of freedom. We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally—that is, for himself—which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts. Again, we are proud that in his conduct of life man has become free from external authorities, which tell him what to do and what not to do. We neglect the role of the anonymous authorities like public opinion and "common sense," which are so powerful because of our profound readiness to conform to the expectations everybody has about ourselves and our equally profound fear of being different. In other words, we are fascinated by the growth of freedom from powers outside of ourselves and are blinded to the fact of inner restraints, compulsions, and fears, which tend to undermine the meaning of the victories freedom has won against its traditional enemies. We therefore are prone to think that the problem of freedom is exclusively that of gaining still more freedom of the kind we have gained in the course of modern history, and to believe that the defense of freedom against such powers that deny such freedom is all that is necessary. We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigor, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self, to have faith in this self and in life.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Or, to express it differently, planning and competition can be combined only by planning for competition but not by planning against competition.
It is of the utmost importance to the argument of this book for the reader to keep in mind that the planning against which all our criticism is directed is solely the planning against competition — the planning which is to be substituted for competition. This is the more important, as we cannot, within the scope of this book, enter into a discussion of the very necessary planning which is required to make competition as effective and beneficial as possible. But as in current usage "planning" has become almost synonymous with the former kind of planning, it will sometimes be inevitable for the sake of brevity to refer to it simply as planning, even though this means leaving to our opponents a very good word meriting a better fate.”
Source: The Road to Serfdom
“Or, to put it another way, presuppositional apologetics--such as that developed by Francis Schaeffer, but also by Cornelius Van Til and, to a degree, Herman Dooeyeweerd--rejects classical apologetics precisely because presuppositionalism recognizes the truth of Derrida's claim that everything is interpretation (though I am admittedly radicalizing their intuitions).”
Source: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
“Or walk out that door, but know that I won't just sit back and let you leave like he would. I'll chase you and drag you back to me because that's what you really want. You want someone that loves you with the same all-consuming desperation you've felt your whole life.”
Source: Faded Pages
“Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences.”
Source: Death in Venice and Other Tales
“Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did.”
Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Or was it a kind of egotism masquerading as strength? She knew men were taught (primarily by other men, of course) that they were to keep their pain to themselves, but she also knew marriage was supposed to undo some of that teaching”
Source: Sleeping Beauties
“Or was some act of revenge still pending, some thunderbolt long cherished and prepared?”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?”
Source: Cibola Burn
“Or we can picture God as a caring parent with traits with love, generosity, and sensitivity- an infinite Being who personally interacts with and responds to creation. Accordingly, God considers prayers much as a wise parent might consider requests from a child.”
“Or we could skip all that, and I could show you my favorite view of the river."
"Where's that?"
"My condo."
Her eyes widen almost imperceptibly. "So, I'm guessing that the view of the city is a euphemism?"
"It might be," I admit. "I know you said you wanted your day out. But Jez--"
"Shut up, Pierce," she says, silencing me with a finger on my lips. "And let's go. I'd hate to miss an exceptional view.”
“Or were we like people who have died before their time and are given a second chance by some minor deity, but with so many provisos that the new life feels like a deferred death?”
Source: Enigma Variations
“Or what
The evil for us, if we had ne'er been born?—
As though, forsooth, in darkling realms and woe
Our life were lying till should dawn at last
The day-spring of creation! Whosoever
Hath been begotten wills perforce to stay
In life, so long as fond delight detains;
But whoso ne'er hath tasted love of life,
And ne'er was in the count of living things,
What hurts it him that he was never born?”
Source: OF THE NATURE OF THINGS
“Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.”
Source: The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder
“Or, when I wasn't practicing the guitar and he wasn't listening to his headphones, still with his straw hat flat on his face, he would suddenly break the silence:
'Elio.'
'Yes?'
'What are you doing?'
'Reading.'
'No, you're not.'
'Thinking, then.'
'About?'
I was dying to tell him.
'Private,' I replied.
'So you won't tell me?'
'So I won't tell you.'
'So he won't tell me,' he repeated, pensively, as if explaining to someone about me.
How I loved the way he repeated what I myself had just repeated. It made me think of a caress, or of a gesture, which happens to be totally accidental the first time but becomes intentional the second time and more so yet the third.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?”
Source: Shakespear's Sonnets
“Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?”
“Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.”
“Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?”
“Or, worse yet, when you meet a woman, and start something with her, the first woman you ever really loved; and then after a brief off-season you return to McMurdo an your reunion with her only to have her dump you on arrival as if your Kiwi idyll had never happened. Or when you see her around town soon after that, trolling with the best of them; or when you find out that some people are calling you 'the sandwich,' in reference to the ice women's old joke that bringing a boyfriend to Antarctica is like bringing a sandwich to a smorgasbord. Now that's heartbreak for you.”
Source: Antarctica
“Or, worse yet, when you meet a woman, and start something with her, the first woman you ever really loved; and then after a brief off-season you return to McMurdo an your reunion with her only to have her dump you on arrival as if your Kiwi idyll had never happened. Or when you see her around town soon after that, trolling with the best of tremor when you find out that some people are calling you "the sandwich," in reference to the ice women's old joke that bringing a boyfriend to Antarctica is like bringing a sandwich to a smorgasbord. No that's heartbreak for you.”
Source: Antarctica
“Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.”
“Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.”
“Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.”
“Or you can stay frigid," says WIll, his green eyes glinting with mischief. "You know. If you want." Christina throws a roll at him. He catches it and bites it. "Don't be mean to her," she says. "Frigidity is in her nature. Sort of like being a know-it-all is in yours." "I am not frigid!" I exclaim. "Don't worry about it," says Will. It's endearing. Look you're all red.”
Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
“Or you just not ask her."
"You might as well slit my throat.”
Source: The Witness
“Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen.
(Out of Doors in February)”
Source: Jefferies' England: Nature Essays by Richard Jefferies
“Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.”
Source: Help, Thanks, Wow
“Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.”
“Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.”
“Or, bide thou where the poppy blows
With windflowers fail and fair.”
“Or, if I take that same auditorium and I make it much bigger and put more space between seats, it'll be quieter because it's much harder when you're not in physical contact with people to spread a virus from person-to-person, right? There are all sorts of patterns that we see in epidemiology that help us understand why something spreads.”
“Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale
“Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).”
“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
Source: Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education