O Quotes
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“Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.”
“Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.”
“Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.”
“Other than our disagreement over Syria, I would say our relationship with Russia is very good and we are seeking to broaden and deepen it. Twenty million Russians are Muslims. Like Russia, we have an interest in fighting radicalism and extremism. We both have an interest in stable energy markets. Even the disagreement over Syria is more of a tactical one than a strategic one. We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.”
“Other than our love our labor is one of the most sacred gifts we can give. When your labor is your love, life is sacred. Love what you do or change.”
“Other than our 'mind', what is it that we have, which we can call our own? Everything else is gifted by nature and made usable by science. At the same time, if you talk of joy of mind, it lies in "art". But then it is difficult to understand that in this process, where do we feel the need for these 'so-called religions'?”
“Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.”
“Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.”
“Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.”
“Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.”
“Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.”
“Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.”
“Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.”
“Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not necessarily people, it's the essence of the time period, whether it be the '90s or the '70s or the '40s. The specific time and what vibe it gave you, what the emotion of that time was, and trying to get that emotion again.”
“Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.”
“Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.”
Source: Fading Away
“Other than they may or may not have discussed the relative merits of the Electoral College vs. the popular vote, what I am told by sources close to Al Gore is that this was at the instigation of Ivanka Trump, that she reached out to the former vice president recently to discuss climate change, and that he was really impressed with the way she was thinking about the issue, framing the issue.”
“Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?”
Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
“Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.”
“Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of this kind of pot. You would perhaps see a case with 20 different examples. So you realize that these pots could be repeated again and again, and each time there would be minor variations in them.”
“Other thing we need to understand is that the financial power of the fossil fuel industry has so far prevented even any minor progress. They have a sweetheart deal unlike any other business on Earth: they're allowed to dispose of their waste for free, to use the atmosphere as an open sewer. And they will do all they can to defend that special privilege.”
“Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate.”
Source: The Chocolate Touch
“Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.”
“Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.”
“Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.”
Source: Cosmos
“Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.”
Source: The importance of creativity
“Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.”
Source: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
“Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
“Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.”
“Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.”
“Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.”
“Other times they played some of their own games such as 'going to see the coyote' or ban-madr-che_gio as the Pimas called it. The game was played by very young Pima Indian children.
A group of children line up in a single file with hands holding on to the one in front and marching towards another, usually a boy, lying down pretending to be asleep away from the crowd. When they reach the place where the boy is lying asleep, they march around him singing, alha, alha. When they have marched four times around him, the leader pokes the sleeping boy in the ribs and he jumps up and tries to catch one of the children in the line. The business of the leader of the lines is to prevent the coyote from catching one of the children. The coyote and the leader struggle while the line of children sways back and forth to keep from being caught.
When the coyote grabs one of the children he runs off with him or her and that means he is supposed to have eaten him or her up. When he comes back, another coyote is lying asleep and the game is played over again. The first one caught by the coyote will be the next in turn to lie asleep as the coyote.
We played this game when I was a boy, but the game is not any longer played among the Pima children. Now they play 'London Bridge is Falling Down.'
Sometimes a toka contest is held between two villages. Toka is played only by the women. It is like hockey. Sticks about six feet long were used to throw a pair of small wooden balls tied together about three inches apart with a string of raw-hide. A team is ten or more women on each side.
They pick up the set of balls with the end of the stick and toss it as far as they can. Another on that team will toss it again if she can, and run after her toss, until she gets it over the goal line. The playing field is a hundred steps long and fifty steps wide.
When an argument arises they often use the sticks to settle it.
[page 42, Pima Games]”
Source: A Pima Remembers
“Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me.”
Source: Misadventurous
“Other times when I hear the wind blow
I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”
“Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.”
“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”
“Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.”
“Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.”
“Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.”
“Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.”
Source: The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today
“Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.”
Source: Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral
“Other victims of neurotic dependency are battered wives. The fact that they are so often financially dependent upon the men who beat them makes for a vicious kind of entrapment. It's emotional dependency, though that puts a double lock on the trap. "There's a kind of panic that many women have about being able to make it in any way other than being dependent on their husbands (...) They've been taught their whole lives that they can't. It's a conditioning process."
In situations in which they have no effect on their environments, animals begin to give up. (...) the same thing happens to humans. Stay long enough in a situation in which you feel you have no control, and you will simply stop responding. It's called learned helplessness. (...) Having been "shaped" to believe there is nothing she can do about the situation, the battered wife goes on being battered.Only after she begins to disengage from her belief in her own helplessness can she break out of the vicious cycle of dependency and its brutal effect on her life.”
Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
“Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.”
“Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously a public health issue. One out of eight premature deaths worldwide happens because of air pollution. The worst power plant in America kills 278 people a year and causes 445 heart attacks. So, when we improve air quality we improve our lives, and at the same time we improve the climate as well. We must see climate policy from this perspective and not as an abstract threat that may threaten our survival in 100 years.”
“Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.”
“Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.”
“Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.”
“Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.”
Source: To the Lighthouse