O Quotes
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“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
Source: By Space Possessed
“Otherwise [digital revolution] hasn't changed my way of filmmaking, I'm not nostalgic in postulating we should still make films on celluloid. I love celluloid but I don't need to continue on celluloid.”
“Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.”
Source: Kon-Tiki
“Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.”
“Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.”
Source: Otherwise: new and selected poems
“Otherwise I'll do something that I won't be able to live with. And that's important to me, being able to live with my actions. My thoughts are a different story. They've my own and they don't hurt anyone but me.”
Source: White Horse
“Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.”
Source: Forbidden
“otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark.”
Source: Em and the Big Hoom
“Otherwise: the dark, and our bodies, two strange women trying to touch each other.”
Source: Soft Science
“Otherwise: the dark, and our bodies, two strange women trying to touch each other. Breathing strange. Moving toward and away from each other as the red ghost in the sky opened, called us gone, showed us the door to another world. Otherwise, the dark, and our mouths, tearing at what bones we found, grinning and hungry for something - something we couldn't, with all our words, name.”
Source: Soft Science
“Otherwise, the dark and our mouths, tearing at what bones we found, grinning and hungry for something—something we couldn't, with all our words, name.”
Source: Soft Science
“Otherwise the history just gets completely flattened out, and people imagine that everything was always available and accessible. One of the things that struck me was the way in which the landscape of experimental music seemed different at different points in time, on the basis of where one was situated geographically, if one had access to live performances, and what was released at a particular time.”
“Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.”
Source: The Wisdom of Perversity
“Otherwise, there were no long goodbyes or emotional scenes. That isn’t part of foster care. You just leave and you just die a little bit. Just a little bit because a little bit more of you understands that this is the way it’s going to be. And you grow hard around the edges, just a little bit. Not in some big way, but just a little bit because you have to, because if you don’t it only hurts worse the next time and a little bit more of you will die. And you don’t want that because you know that if enough little bits of you die enough times, a part of you leaves. Do you know what I mean? You’re still there, but a part of you leaves until you stand on the sidelines of life, simply watching, like a ghost that everyone can see and no one is bothered by. You become the saddest thing there is: a child of God who has given up.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care.
“Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us”
Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan
“Otherwise, you are not wise”
“Otherwise you have to repeat a lot when you're filming. And I've seen the film and it's in a border town in Mexico close to the border with the United States, so of course you have a lot of traffic and noise and dogs barking right nearby, and for that you have to repeat a lot and Robert Rodriguez didn't do that. Smart, smart, smart, you better have smarts also.”
“Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.”
“Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.”
Source: Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein
“Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.”
“Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey.”
“Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.”
“Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.”
“Otherwise, their only engagement I'm going to have with [Donald Trump] is fighting back against their attempts to undo Dodd-Frank, their attempts to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all of those things.”
“Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn’t even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.”
Source: Lover at Last: Number 11 in series
“Otherworldiness can be a real temptation in the religion, but the Incarnation itself is a corrective. Down to earth, real flesh and blood. And even at feasts such as the Ascension, which might seem otherworldly, the scripture texts for the day are anything but: "Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?" (Acts 1:11, KJV). As if to say, take a look around; your work is here! One of my favorite passages in the Roman Catholic Breviary, used during Advent, has a practical and yet visionary tone, a combination I find irresistible. Heaven seems to be an important construct in the human imagination, and these words by St. Augustine tempt me to believe that the power to imagine such a heaven is almost heaven enough.
"Let us sing alleluia here on earth, while we still live in anxiety, so that we may sing it one day in heaven in full security... We shall have no enemies in heaven, we shall never lose a friend. God's praises are sung both there an adhere, but here they are sung in anxiety, there in security; here they are sung by those destined to die, there, by those destined to live forever; here they are sung in hope, there in hope's fulfillment; here, they are sung by wayfarers, there, by those living in their own country. So then ... let us sing now, not in order to enjoy a life of leisure, but in order to lighten our labors. You should sing as wayfarers do - sing, but continue your journey ... Sing then, but keep going.”
Source: Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
“Othneil was sent by Yahweh, of that I have no doubt. But he is only a man. Just as Mosheh was only a man. And even though we have won some battles, without the covering of the Almighty we will ultimately fail. Yes, the sword will be important in this fight, and we must raise up as many able-bodied men as we can to be ready, but without out hearts turned fully to Yahweh, without the am seagull embracing their true identity as the beloved people of our Creator, then we will only slide directly back into apathy and idolatry like we did before.”
Source: Like Flames in the Night
“Otimista é quem acha que tem que haver uma luz no fim deste túnel. Pessimista é o que não tem muita certeza de que isto é um túnel.”
Source: Verissimas: Frases, reflexões e sacadas sobre quase tudo
“Otin kissan syliin en omista kissaa
olen allerginen voikukille ja
toisten tuoksulle ja nyt polvilla torkkuu
vieras eläin
aivastan hänet karkuun”
Source: Sinun osasi eivät liiku
“Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.”
“Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'”
“Otis Grows is a kid’s book that looks at adult problems. It playfully engages us all to consider: what’s tough, what’s inherent, but most of all, what’s possible.”
Source: Otis Grows
“Otis," I said.
"Shhh," he said. "I'm incognito. Call me...Otis."
"I'm not sure that's how incognito works, but okay."
Otis, aka Otis climbed into the chair I'd reserved for Sam.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor
“Otis, on the other hand, didn't miss home a bit. He had always hated the stairs in our house in Massachusetts. He was now five years old and very large for a golden retriever. I thought he was fat, but Bruce insisted he was just "big-boned". Either way, climbing the steep stairs at home was a challenge. Whenever Bruce and I went upstairs, Otis would sit near the bottom step, carefully calculating whether we would be on the second floor long enough to make it worthwhile to heave himself up the stairs. And on the way down the stairs, Otis was like a fully loaded eighteen-wheeler barreling down a steep hill. We just got out of his way.
But in the new Washington apartment building, Otis had an elevator. As far as he was concerned, life was sweet.”
“Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.”
“Otis! Will you PLEASE stop killing me!”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“Otkako su ljudska bića zaposjela Zemlju, noćno je nebo bilo sudrug i nadahnuće. Zvijezde su smirivale čovjeka.
Nekima je nebo otvaralo put prema vjeri. Drugima je svemir pružao poticaj za najneobičnija maštanja.”
Source: Contact
“otkazat’sya, “the abandoned.” It was another word for orphan”
Source: Shadow and Bone
“Otkači srce od Dunjaluka! Doslovno. Otkači! I prodiši. Zaista je Allah Dovoljan.”
Source: Logika duše
“Oto ironia, przed którą stają wszystkie rozwijające się firmy: wzrost rodzi złożoność, a złożoność zabija wzrost”
Source: Winning Not Fighting: Why you need to rethink success and how you achieve it with the Ancient Art of Wing Tsun
“Oto on. Bohater tej książki. Raptor – pies z piekła rodem i mój najlepszy przyjaciel. Poznaliśmy się pewnego chłodnego dnia, kiedy on miał siedem tygodni, a ja... No cóż, ja byłam dorosła. I wydawało mi się, że wiem, co robię.”
Source: Psy z piekła rodem. Zdobywca świata
“Otoha picked up her spoon and took a bite. It was typical curry and tasted good. At first it seemed mild, but then it got spicier, with a unique aroma. I could really get to like this, she thought.
"It's good, isn't it?" Miami whispered.
"Sure is."
The carrots and onions cut in small cubes she recognized, but there was another vegetable, likewise stewed to translucency, she didn't. When she tasted it, it felt like it would easily fall apart.
"What is this?" Otoha asked. "This vegetable is so soft and fresh..."
She'd never seen this sort of vegetable in curry before.
"That's daikon radish."
"Seriously? Daikon?"
Daikon in curry--- now that was a first. It worked, surprisingly.
"When Mr. Kinoshita was scouted for this job, the owner made it a condition that he re-create and serve several recipes from novels and essays the owner chose. Since Mr. Kinoshita's an excellent cook as well as barista."
"What else is in this?" Otoha asked. "It's savory, as if there's meat, but I don't see any."
The small cubes of vegetables were front and center, with torn-off scraps of some kind of meat hidden beneath. But this, too, must lend the curry its unique flavor. She raised her spoon and stared at it intently. "Ah---!"
"You get it?"
"It's corned beef!" Otoha exclaimed.”
Source: Dinner at the Night Library
“Otra amiga me dice: —Las mujeres mentales
Perdedoras salimos en negocios de amores.
Tenemos, ciertamente, muchos adoradores:
Buscan pequeños sorbos en caídas vestales.
Su corazón lo ponen no en las espirituales,
Que fatigan al cabo. Como cultivadores
Adoran lo que crean: piensan que las mejores
Son aquellas plegadas a sus modos carnales.
Las mujeres mentales somos las plataformas:
Mejoramos los hombres, y pulimos sus normas,
Refinan en nosotras su instinto desatado.
Y cuando, ya cansadas de esperar, les pedimos
El corazón, en cambio del propio que le dimos,
Se lleva la que pasa lo que hemos adorado”
Source: Antología poética
“Otra vez aparecí con alarmada prisa en Valencia, en ansia de distanciarme de seres desconocidos que parecían tener la desaforada y perjudicial aspiración de matarme, lo que, dado el pacífico carácter de mis relaciones con la sociedad, me pareció una exageración que había que evitar a toda costa.”
Source: De portería a portería
“Otra vez he andado en sueños, amor mío. Lo que temo son los monstruos inhumanos…”
Source: THE SHINING
“Otras cosas habrá que las callamos, porque tan buenas son para hacerse, que pierdan el valor si las hablamos."
Juan Boscán (1490-1542)”
“Otras formas de combate: leer, escribir, amar.”
“Otras partes del mundo tienen monos; Europa tiene franceses. Una cosa compensa la otra.”
Source: L'arte di insultare
“Otras veces, las cosas que hace Paula pueden poner contentas a otras personas.
Si le deja su juguete preferido a su hermano Eric o cuando le dice te quiero a su mamá”
Source: Paula y su cabello multicolor:
“Otrera stayed dead the second time," Kinzie said, batting her eyes. "We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend...well, I think you'd look great in an iron collar and an orange jumpsuit." Percy couldn't tell if she was kidding or not. He politely thanked her and changed seats.”