O Quotes
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“Oud manager Heineken: 'Ik kan je vanuit de grond van mijn hart zeggen dat we bij Heineken zaken willen verbeteren en positief willen bijdragen aan de samenlevingen waar we opereren. We proberen ons aan alle regels te houden, hoe moeilijk dat ook is. Het steekt me dat dat onderuit wordt gehaald met opmerkingen dat alles voor ons marketing en commercie is. Het is heel lastig om een eiland van perfectie te zijn in een zee van ellende, maar twijfel niet aan de oprechtheid.'
Heineken als eiland van perfectie. En Afrika? Het continent waar Heineken sinds meer dan een eeuw vele miljarden heeft verdiend? 'Een zee van ellende.'
Maar twijfel niet aan de goede bedoelingen.”
Source: Bier voor Afrika
“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”
Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete
“Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?”
“Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.”
Source: Black Boy
“Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.”
Source: Bruce Springsteen - Sheet Music Anthology: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection
“Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.”
“Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.”
Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986
“ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.”
“Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.”
Source: One on the House
“Oui , but if all the men in your life are happy, you are happier, and it makes my life easier." - Jean-Claude”
“Oui, enfin, moi j'en ai marre d'entendre les pères s'écrier la main sur le cœur "Mes enfants c'est toute ma vie"... Puis de constater qu'ils ne payent pas la pension alimentaire et ne viennent pas les chercher quand c'est leur tour...”
Source: Les femmes ne meurent pas par hasard
“Oui, je sens que mon âme est cadenassée dans le verrou de mon corps, et qu’elle ne peut se dégager, pour fuir loin des rivages que frappe la mer humaine, et n’être plus témoin du spectacle de la meute livide des malheurs, poursuivant sans relâche, à travers les fondrières et les gouffres de l’abattement immense, les isards humains. Mais, je ne me plaindrai pas. J’ai reçu la vie comme une blessure, et j’ai défendu au suicide de guérir la cicatrice. Je veux que le Créateur en contemple, à chaque heure de son éternité, la crevasse béante. C’est le châtiment que je lui inflige.”
Source: Les Chants de Maldoror
“Oui, je suis libre.Et l'aigle a raison, je suis les montagnes et les lacs.Je n'ai pas de passé, de présent
ni de futur. Je connais ce que l'on appelle « éternité ».”
Source: Adultery
“Oui oui, mon ami, je m'appelle Lafayette!
The Lancelot of the revolutionary set!
I came from afar just to say "Bonsoir!"
Tell the King "Casse toi!" Who's the best? C'est moi!”
“Oui, tout son mal venait de ce rire qu'il avait bu.”
Source: La Faute de l'abbé Mouret
“Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet)”
Source: Embrace the Darkness
“Oulipo ends where the work begins.”
“Oulu on minulle vain kauppahalli, siikoja ja Oulun sedän lämmin muisto. Muuten tavanomainen kaupunki.”
Source: Humusavotta: kirjailijan päiväkirja 1974–75
“Ouma always woke up before the birds did. She called it waking up at ‘mossiepop’ — Afrikaans for sparrow’s fart.”
Source: Cape of Storms
“Oupphörligt talar vi, och det är orden och inte verkligheten som är vår verklighet.”
Source: Autisterna
“Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.”
“Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.”
Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations
“Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.”
“Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.”
“Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our # willpower .”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.”
“Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.”
“Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873
“Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.”
“Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.”
“Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.”
“Our [Afghanistan] main problem is education. Over 90 percent of our population is uneducated. So what can you expect? The terrorists come from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, saying the Quran says this, Quran says that, and the Afghans believe that because they speak Arabic, they think they know the language of Quran, and they know Islam better than us, let's follow them. So they simply follow them.”
“Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of problems are ignored.”
“Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.”
“Our [black people's] path is clear: We refuse to be inferior. We want to be exactly what Allah (God) has desired for us to be and we can't be that in their [white people's] house. We either have to take over their house or go and build a house of our own.”
“Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.”
“Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.”
“Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!”
“Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.”
“Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.”
“Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind of claimed political persecution in Russia, which they use our documents to back up.”
“Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.”
“Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.”
Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About
“Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.”
“Our ability to accept life's difficult offerings is a testament of our relationship with God.”
Source: Finding Parker
“Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.”
Source: His Master's Voice
“Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But once you've found a solution, there is no need to continue the adaptive behavioral parrying, which is bioenergetically very expensive to maintain. We are built to find answers, then hang on to them as long as we can.”
“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”
Source: The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4
“Our ability to choose is sacred. It’s what makes humans special.”
Source: Ending Easter