O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.”
“Other people cannot live the pain out of you. The bright side is, you can learn to honor the pain so you can welcome love in.”
“Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”
“Other people cared a lot about what Jesse thought of them, but Seiji couldn’t picture Nicholas caring. Everyone liked Jesse better than Seiji, but Nicholas wouldn’t. Not even if, for some reason, Nicholas got to know Jesse and Jesse actually tried to be charming. Even then, Seiji was sure, though he didn’t have much basis for the certainty, that Nicholas would still like him better.”
Source: Striking Distance
“Other people could be comparing your progress to those of others. But you're in your own world and should be concerned mostly about your development. The external pressure is unnecessary.”
“Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.”
“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”
Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition
“Other people do not owe me their availability.”
“Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.”
“Other people don’t get to tell you what you can have!
Someone else doesn’t get to tell you who you can be!
The world doesn’t get to decide what you can try.
You are the only one who can make that decision.”
Source: Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
“Other people don’t have the challenges we have... but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own.”
Source: Call It What You Want
“Other people don’t survive, Princess. They live.”
“Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know.”
“Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.”
“Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.”
“Other people had something I lacked something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too.
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.”
“Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.”
“Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.”
“Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?”
“Other people have analysis. I have Utah.”
“Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.”
Source: The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume I - The Years, The Waves
“Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.”
“Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.”
“Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.”
“Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.”
“Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.”
“Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.”
“Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.”
“Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.”
“Other people just possess you, she'd told her friend, the butcher.
Is that so bad ? he'd asked. To be possessed ?
It's the worst fate of all, she'd say. The donkey skin, she thought, was everything else in the world; it was solitude : anonymous, bloody, and happy ever after.”
Source: And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
“Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.”
“other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours”
“Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.”
“Other people may tell us, "Oh, you're so much nicer." Of course you can't hope that other people will tell you that you're so much nicer, but that's always a good sign. Perhaps people find that you're easier to live with.”
“Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.”
“Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.”
“Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.”
“Other people paint what they see. I paint what I feel.”
“Other people's criticisms about what you are capable of, have nothing to do with you.”
“Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.”
Source: Finding Audrey
“Other people's grief is sweet; success is not joy.”
“Other people's happiness is the single most annoying thing to bitter people.”
“Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol. 1
“Other people's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones; she would see suddenly -- with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism -- the extent to which other people's preoccupations differed from her own.”
Source: Passing On
“Other people's life stories are not a topic for debate. One should hear them out, and reciprocate in the same coin.”
Source: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Other people's lives were no less impossible to understand than my own.”
Source: The Isle of Youth: Stories