O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.”
“Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”
“Our best is all we can do, and all we can hold on to is each other. And, zounds, that is more than enough.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.”
“Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly lasting well into 2015 or even 2016. The worst economic trends due to demographics will hit between 2014 and 2019. The U.S. economy is likely to suffer a minor or major crash by early 2015 and another between late 2017 and late 2019 or early 2020 at the latest.”
“Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.”
Source: My Life and Some Letters
“Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile - a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore. People are nowhere near so fluid, being both material and opaque [...] The new machines are so clean and light. Their engineers are sun-worshippers mediating a new scientific revolution associated with the night-dream of post-industrial society.”
“Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We’re not supposed to have it handed to us.”
Source: Not Your Mother's Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better
“Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.”
Source: Select Works
“Our best pictures happen by grace.”
“Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.”
“Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.”
Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers
“Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.”
“Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth.”
“Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.”
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...”
Source: The Fabric of Reality
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
“Our best today; better tomorrow.”
Source: A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
“Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.”
“Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.”
Source: Thoughts of Power
“Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.”
“Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.”
“Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.”
Source: Novels, 1955-1962
“Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.”
Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood
“Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001
“Our big opportunity may be right where we are right now. We have the sense to realize that a single idea can change the way we think, the way we feel, and the way we live, that right now is one of those moments when we have the ability to influence the future right now. Believe it!”
“Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.”
“Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been a great television series. Something like The Wire gives us a rich and fully achieved picture of the wasteful, cruel War on Drugs; something like The White Ribbon gives a perspective on World War I that could only have been presented long after the event itself.”
“Our biggest challenge in this digital age that we are entering is how do we effectively begin to train people for the jobs that are going to exist and not have them be stuck on jobs that are going to go away? And this is a big deal. And it requires the businesses of this country to, in my opinion, first of all, demand changes in the education system and also develop innovative, creative ways to have industries train people for the skills that are necessary for the jobs that are coming.”
“Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people”
“Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.”
“Our biggest challenge is that we have an overwhelming desire for an extraordinary love story but low capacity to hold space for it in our nervous system.”
“Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.”
“Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.”
“Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.”
“Our biggest dreams always start as a simple thought; what those thoughts become depends upon how they are nurtured.”
Source: Living Without Limits: A Memoir by Andi Jones
“Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear”
“Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.”
“Our biggest fear is never to find out that we don't know how to find ourselves.”
Source: The Lacetier
“Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.”
Source: The Clutter Breakthrough: Your Five-Step Solution to Freedom from Clutter Forever
“Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.”
“Our biggest illusion is believing that we are loving someone unconditionally.”
“Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.”
“Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.”
“Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.”
“Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.”
“Our biggest oppressor is our mind. There results of it are seen on black on black hate . Look how black people treat other black people when they have power or in higher positions . Look at how poor black look at those successful black people. They wish and pray for their downfall. They want to destroy everything good they have. We are a jealousy nation. The jealousy we have for each other is what started witchcraft in the olden days. Today we still using witchcraft in a modern way by using technology , internet and Social media instead of using traditional herbs. We use technology , internet and Social media to kill each other and to destroy one another. To bully and humiliate one another. Until we change our mentality. We will forever be slaved by poverty. We will forever be slaved by our mind and thinking even thou constitutionally we are free.”
“Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.”
“Our biggest problem is that our intelligence is not intelligent”