O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”
Source: The Essential Oscar Wilde
“Ordinary people we meet everywhere with their thoughtful faces reflecting their worried souls are the best proof that there is no good order in the world!”
“Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.”
“Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.”
“Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.”
“Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.”
“Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.”
“Ordinary people who walk with an extraordinary God of grace and power, really can make a difference in other as yet unreached lives.”
Source: The Antioch Factor: The Hidden Message of the Book of Acts
“Ordinary people will never understand the king's burdens and pain, but the king can only successfully escape the people's burden for a few minutes.”
“Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.”
“Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.”
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.”
Source: Obedience to Authority
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”
“Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.”
“Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.”
Source: Darconville's cat
“Ordinary points of bravery, the synchronistic moments we all engage in, and the transformative power of minding our voices, forgiving, trusting, and learning to love ourselves and our lives, while we wait.”
Source: Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
“Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.”
“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.”
“Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
“Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.”
“Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.”
Source: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
“Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me”
“Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.”
“Ordinary will please, but never impress.”
“Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.”
Source: Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature
“Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.”
“Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.”
“Ordinary won't change the world.”
“Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.”
“Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.”
Source: Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)
“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Ordning är inget annat än en vänskap med kaos.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Oregano, garlic powder, cayenne. The words ring in my head and, although I hadn't been planning on it, I grab some fresh ginger that 'Buela uses for tea. I pull some soy sauce packets out of a drawer we throw fast-food items in. "Put those onions in the pan with the olive oil, 'Buela."
"Sofrito?" she asks. But I'm not making the usual base.
"Something a little different this time." She tosses the onion into the oil, peels and crushes the garlic in el pilón, and then spoons that into the skillet, too.”
Source: With the Fire on High
“Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.”
“Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.”
“Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.”
“Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.”
“Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines.”
“Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.”
“Oremos por el Papa, por los Obispos, y sacerdotes nos pide San Padre Pio En estos tiempos de tanta relatividad moral.
San Pablo previniendo a los cristianos les dice: “Mas si aun nosotros, o un ángel del cielo, os anunciare otro evangelio diferente del que os hemos anunciado, sea anatema. Como antes hemos dicho, también ahora lo repito: Si alguno os predica diferente evangelio del que habéis recibido, sea anatema. Pues, ¿busco ahora el favor de los hombres, o el de Dios? ¿o trato de agradar a los hombres? Pues si todavía agradara a los hombres, no sería siervo de Cristo.” Gálatas 1,8”
Source: San Padre Pio y el papa Francisco
“Oremos por un último aterrizaje
sobre el globo que nos vio nacer.
Fijemos nuestros ojos en el cielo aborregado
y las frescas, verdes colinas de la Tierra.”
Source: The Green Hills of Earth
“Orengeado is candied orange peel, and it was enormously popular from Elizabethan times until well into the eighteenth century. A pie made from orengeado, perhaps layered with apples, was a very expensive delicacy.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering
ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
Source: Electra
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again.
ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes.
ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever.
ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home.
ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now?
ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.”
Source: Electra
“Orfeo son io, che d'Euridice i passi
Seguo per queste tenebrose arene
Ove giammai per vom mortal non vassi.”
Source: Orfeo (Rororo Opernbücher)
“orFor one thing, he wasn't sure what kind of small talk to make with a guy who'd recently come back from Tartarus. Catch that last episode of Doctor Who? Oh, right. You were trudging through the Pit ofEternal Damnation!”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Organ damage is a common finding in Long COVID patients.”
Source: Long COVID Supplements