O Quotes
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“Orson Welles, one of the best of the best. One of the strongest. As strong as an animal. He somehow was pushed out of the business because he would spend the entire budget of the film before he had even done half the pre-production.”
“Orson Welles, who said to Anita Bryant, Stop picketing me. What I said was I was a thespian. Never got a dinner!”
“Orta yaşa vardığında uzaklarda bir tren görürsün ve çok geçmeden o trenin önünden hızla geçtiğini izlersin ve en sonunda tren şimşek gibi ufukta kaybolur! Ve o tren, sevgili dostum, senin hayatındır!”
“Orta Çağ’da bile köleliği insan haysiyetine karşı suç şeklinde gören nice fikir türleri gelişmiştir. O en karanlık bilinen dönemlerde, köleliği doğal bilen zihniyete karşı isyan edenler çoktur.
Oysa ki İslam’da böyle bir gelişme görülmez: ne din adamları ve ne de ne düşünürler arasında sesini yükselten olmuştur. İslam dünyası bu açıdan insan şahsiyetinin haysiyetine âdeta yabancı kalmıştır. Kur’an’ın köleliği doğal gören hükümlerine karşı "Hayır" diyebilecek cesarette bir kimse çıkmamıştır. Aksine bu hükümlerin köleliğe engel olmadığını savunanlar çıkmıştır. Geçmiş dönemler boyunca İslam bilginlerinin yaptıkları şey, İslam dininin kölelere, kendi özgürlüklerini satın alma hakkını tanıdığını ve kölelerin durumunu iyileştirdiği masallarını tekrarlamaktan ibaret kalmıştır: onlara göre güya İslam şeriatı bu "olumlu" yenilikleri getiren ilk ve son dindir. Oysaki söyledikleri yalandır, çünkü İslam’dan 2500 yıl önceleri Babilonya'da, köleler için kendi özgürlüklerini satın alma hakkı vardı. Yine bunun gibi İslam’dan bin yıl önce uygulanan Manu kanunlarına göre Hindistan'da kocalara, kölelerini döverlerken, karılarını dövdükleri gibi dövmeleri emredilmiştir. Eski Mısır’da, örneğin Ramses III zamanında, kölelerin yerli halktan kimselerle evlenerek bir kaç kuşak sonra özgürlüğe kavuştukları görülürdü.”
Source: Şeriat ve Kölelik
“Ortada komplocular olsun istiyordu. Ayrıcalık ve güçle delirmiş adamların, bir yerlerde, dumanlı bir odada, brendi yudumlayarak komplolar kurduğunu hayal etmek çok daha iyiydi. Böyle bir imgeye tutunmak zorunda hissederdiniz kendinizi, çünkü bunu yapmazsanız, köpeklerinin tüylerini fırçalayan veya çocuklarını yatırmadan önce onlara masal okuyan sıradan kişilerin, dışarı çıkıp başka sıradan kişilere korkunç şeyler yapabildiği için kötü şeyler yaşandığı gerçeğiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalırdınız. Kimliği belirsiz Onlar'ı suçlamak her zaman çok daha kolaydı. Söz konusu Onlar'ın aslında Biz olduğunu düşünmek ise iç karartıcı ve moral bozucuydu. Eğer Onlar yapıyorsa, bütün bunlar kimsenin suçu değildi. Ama eğer Biz yapıyorsak, o zaman... O zaman Ben neydim? Ne de olsa, Ben de Biz'in bir parçası olmak zorundaydı, değil mi? Ben'i asla Onlar'dan biri olarak düşünmezdiniz. Kimse kendini Onlar'dan biri olarak düşünmezdi. Bir her zaman Biz'den biriydik, kötü şeyleri yapanlar ise Onlar'dı.”
Source: Jingo
“Ortada komplocular olsun istiyordu. Ayrıcalık ve güçle delirmiş adamların, bir yerlerde, dumanlı bir odada, brendi yudumlayarak komplolar kurduğunu hayal etmek çok daha iyiydi. Böyle bir imgeye tutunmak zorunda hissederdiniz kendinizi, çünkü bunu yapmazsanız, köpeklerinin tüylerini fırçalayan veya çocuklarını yatırmadan önce onlara masal okuyan sıradan kişilerin, dışarı çıkıp başka sıradan kişilere korkunç şeyler yapabildiği için kötü şeyler yaşandığı gerçeğiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalırdınız. Kimliği belirsiz Onlar'ı suçlamak her zaman çok daha kolaydı. Söz konusu Onlar'ın aslında Biz olduğunu düşünmek ise iç karartıcı ve moral bozucuydu. Eğer Onlar yapıyorsa, bütün bunlar kimsenin suçu değildi. Ama eğer Biz yapıyorsak, o zaman... O zaman Ben neydim? Ne de olsa, Ben de Biz'in bir parçası olmak zorundaydı, değil mi? Ben'i asla Onlar'dan biri olarak düşünmezdiniz. Kimse kendini Onlar'dan biri olarak düşünmezdi. Biz her zaman Biz'den biriydik, kötü şeyleri yapanlar ise Onlar'dı.”
Source: Jingo
“Ortez sauntered over to the nearest wall intercom. "Bridge, this is the captain -- what the hell's going on up there? I didn't schedule a combat drill for today." Hell, it occurred to him -- he hadn't scheduled any kind of drill for at least four months. On the other end of the line, young 2nd lieutenant Cedric Pankow, the com officer, let it fall.”
Source: Space Sucks!
“Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone.”
“Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken by its past, and our past would be our future.”
“Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“Orthodox Jews often ask you: "Are you an Israeli first, or a Jew?" I see no difference between the two. After all, I'm also simultaneously the son of my parents, the husband of my wife and the father of my children.”
“Orthodox Jews, or, as they are known in the Talmud, the Really Chosen Ones, are committed to the idea that the entire Torah was dictated by God verbatim to Moses at Mount Sinai... Other forms of Judaism dispute this claim, although it does explain certain passages in the first Torah, such as, I'm sorry, am I boring you? and What do you like better, Moses, Lord Almighty or Big Hoohah?”
“Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.”
“Orthodox Judaism mandates that men have greater obligations in prayer and study, while women’s primary role is in the family. Therefore, women do not participate as much in those ongoing rituals that create a relationship to God.”
Source: Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism
“ORTHODOX PARADOX
Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated
Kamil Ali”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.”
“orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.”
Source: Black Oxen
“Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.”
Source: What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
“Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.”
“Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.”
“Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.”
“Orthodoxy is the departure lounge for irrelevance.”
“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
“Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.”
Source: Education and the Social Order
“Orthodoxy is the wide open field within which successful breeding can take place. If one maintains that Jesus was an eater of magic mushrooms or a Martian, then this will not make for fertility. There is not enough in common for there to be intercourse in any sense. How different can two believers be for the encounter to be fertile? This is a complex question which we do not need to explore here. Of course ultimately we must share orthodoxy, but this is not to narrow the scope of the conversation; it is to enter the broad terrain of the mystery, in which we are liberated from the tightness of ideology. It is a serious misuse of language to use the word 'orthodox' to mean conservative or, even worse, rigid. Orthodoxy does not lie in the unvarying and thoughtless repetition of received formulas. As Karl Rahner pointed out, that can be a form of heresy. Orthodoxy is speaking about our faith in ways that keep open the pilgrimage towards the mystery. Often it is hard to know immediately whether a new statement of belief is a new way of stating our faith or its betrayal. It takes time for us to tell.”
Source: What is the Point of Being a Christian?
“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.”
Source: Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects: Written Originally in French
“Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.”
“Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.”
“Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.”
“Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.”
“ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.”
Source: Poems of Ambrose Bierce
“Ortiz is now synonymous with walk-off homers. After all, he hit a total of nine game-ending blasts from 2002-07. And that was just in the regular season. It was his blasts in the 2004 postseason that cemented his legacy in Boston.”
Source: Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
“Ortodoxia înseamnă a nu gândi - a nu avea nevoie să gândești. Ortodoxia înseamnă lipsa conștiinței.”
Source: 1984
“ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.”
“Oruç da, ziyafet de, hepsi oyun,
Eğer uzaksa candan can.
Eğer içimizde iyilik yoksa,
Mumlar, fişekler, hepsi yalan.”
Source: Yabancı Yarim: Sessizliği Dinle, Kâinati Duyacaksın
“Oruç ruhu nefis ile bedene esir olmaktan kurtararak ona hürriyet veren bir ibadettir. Onun bize verdiği ilahi ders de merhamettir.”
Source: Kalbin Sesi - Bir Hicret Risalesi
“Orvil mainly listens to powwow music. There's something in the energy of that big booming drum, in the intensity of the singing, like an urgency that feels specifically Indian. He likes the power the sound of a chorus of voices makes too, those high-pitched wailed harmonies, how you can't tell how many singers there are, and how sometimes it sounds like ten singers, sometimes like a hundred.”
Source: There There
“Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.”
“Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"”
“Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.”
“Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.”
“Orwell, in his 1936 essay "Shooting an elephant", noted that an imperialist 'wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it'. The wife also wears a mask and her face grows to fit it, in all its variations.”
Source: The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.”
“Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks about "endless war" or war that might last fifty years, he could be Big Brother. You have Bush incessantly going on about the evil ones.”