O Quotes
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“Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.”
Source: Strategy Six Pack
“Other control-oriented spankees are submissives. For these folks, spanking is something they accept because they know that giving a spanking pleases their dominant, or because their dominant has decided that they require one in order to shape their behavior. They are rarely resistant or mouthy; instead, they get their script from gamely doing their best to please.”
Source: Spanking for Lovers
“Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.”
“Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.”
“Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.”
“Other countries have far greater problems than we have.”
“Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.”
“Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.”
“Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving.”
“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]”
“Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.”
“Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.”
“Other Courtesies have been -
Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry.”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.”
“Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.”
“Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? —”
Source: Lark Rise to Candleford
“Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.”
“Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.”
“Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.”
“Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.”
“Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.”
“Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.”
“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”
“Other feelings too can be philosophical—pain, grief, tedium, delight, exultation—if they are experienced on behalf of humankind. “I looked around me, and my soul became wounded by the suffering of mankind” is the opening of Alexander Radishchev’s “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” (1790), which laid the foundation of all subsequent Russian philosophy. It is a philosophy shaped by feelings of suffering and compassion, by the Karamazovian question of how to justify a child’s tears. The range of philosophical feelings is wide.”
“Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.”
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror or pity, yet it was far more than mere frenzy.”
Source: Oath of Swords
“Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.”
Source: The Papa Prayer: The Prayer You've Never Prayed
“Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”
Source: The Raven
“Other friends have said, "I don't understand why you've used this trumpet-style sound rather than a real one when you know you can write for trumpet." But it's most important to get the energy right.”
“Other girls play with soft toys,” I said, “and you play with knives…”
Source: Playmates
“Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.”
“Other hatreds come and go - but it's always open season on women. The threat of femicide is always there in the background, like white noise - the mood music which accompanies the danse macabre of misogyny - and authorities seem intensely relaxed about statistics which would provoke a frenzy of breast-beating if it involved any other group.”
Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials
“Other heights in other lives, God willing.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“Other historians have confined themselves to the recording of victories in war and triumphs over enemies, of the exploits of the commanders and the heroism of their men, stained with the blood of the thousands they have slaughtered for the sake of children and country and possessions; it is peaceful wars, fought for the very peace of the soul, and men who in such wars have fought manfully for truth rather than for country, for true religion rather than for their dear ones, that my account of God’s commonwealth will inscribe on imperishable monuments; it is the unshakeable determination of the champions of true religion, their courage and endurance, their triumphs over demons and victories over invisible opponents, and the crowns which all this won for them at the last, that it will make famous for all time.”
Source: The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
“Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.”
“Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.”
“Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.”
“Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.”
“Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.”
“Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.”
“Other kids are kids almost just like you - it's true.
Other kids are kids too, but there's no other you, but YOU!”
Source: Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
“Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.”
Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!
“Other kids get white rice, but the food you give us makes it look like we're living a subsistence life.”
“I buy white rice for the New Year's Festival,” I said, stung. Then, defensively, “I often put barley in your lunch –”
“Which is even more embarrassing, because that means we're really poor.”
“What a lucky child you are to say that. You don't know what poor means –”
Source: The Island of Sea Women
“other kids pack lunch”
“Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.”
“Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.”
“Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.”
Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake”
“Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.”
Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days