O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Other people's minds aside, not even my own mind flows in the way that I wish.”
Source: ひるなかの流星 2 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 2]
“Other people's opinion have no impact on your self esteem unless you allow it.”
“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
Source: Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness
“Other people’s pockets are our money’s dream home.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Other people’s reactions usually say more about their own inner weather report than they do about the magnificent (albeit occasionally messy) renovations happening in your Inner Springfield.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Other people's success is not your failure.”
“Other people’s words have almost nothing to do with you and almost everything to do with them.”
Source: Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life
“Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.”
“Other people say: hold on, if he's carrying the entire universe in a sack, right, that means he's carrying himself and the sack inside the sack, because the universe contains everything. Including him. And the sack, of course. Which contains him and the sack already. As it were.
To which the reply is: well?”
“Other people say that I consider myself the best.
I don't consider myself, I'm sure I'm the best.”
“Other people sing in the shower, but I don't.”
“Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.”
“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”
Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“Other people spoke, and I tried to keep up with the translations. All the stories were about Dimitri's kindness and strength of character. Even when not out battling the undead, Dimitri had always been there to help those who needed it. Almost everyone could recall sometime that Dimitri had stepped up to help others, going out of his way to do what was right, even in situations that could put him at risk. That was no surprise to me. Dimitri always did the right thing.
And it was that attitude that had made me love him so much. I had a similar nature. I too rushed in when others needed me, sometimes when I shouldn't have. Others called me crazy for it, but Dimitri had understood. He'd always understood me, and part of what we'd worked on was how to temper that impulsive need to run into danger with reason and calculation. I had a feeling no one else in this world would ever understand me like he did.”
Source: Blood Promise
“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Other people think destiny is a time in one's life, such as the moment one becomes an adult, or the instant it becomes necessary to construct a hiding place out of sofa cushions. And still other people think that destiny is an invisible force, like gravity, or a fear of paper cuts, that guide everyone throughout their lives, whether they are embarking on a mysterious errand, doing a treacherous deed, or deciding that a book they have begun reading is too dreadful to finish,”
“Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.”
“Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.”
“Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.”
“Other people, with nothing at stake, see there is a look of sadness about her, as if she lives too much in the past or perhaps expects more of life than is reasonable.”
Source: So Long, See You Tomorrow
“Other people would probably say: I wasn’t myself. But Granny Weatherwax didn’t have anyone else to be.”
Source: Lords and Ladies
“Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.”
“Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.”
Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel
“Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.”
“Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.”
“Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.”
“Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.”
“Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.”
“Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.”
Source: Mission to America
“Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.”
Source: Coming Home
“Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.”
“Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.”
“Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.”
“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
Source: The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
“Other people's opinions do not determine your potential.”
Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
“Other people's opinions of you are none of your business.”
“Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.”
“Other people's risks are statistical. When it's your risk, your own child, it isn't statistical anymore.”
Source: Sideshow
“Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.”
“Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.”
Source: Gifts
“Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.”
“Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent”
“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”
“Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.”
“Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.”
Source: The Moviegoer
“Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.”
“Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.”
“Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.”
Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual
“Other peoples' success represents the possibility of what you can do.”