O Quotes
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“Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.”
Source: Fundamentalism
“Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.”
Source: You
“Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Our business is with life, not death.”
“Our business model has been to partner with bigger firms and team on projects to gain experience. A bigger firm always enhances my smaller firm’s position.”
Source: The Minority and Woman-Owned Small Business Guide to Government Contracts: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
“Our business,The Producers Guild, has a good record in some areas, and a bad record in others. There are many well-intentioned people trying to change things. The Producers Guild has been committed to this for years now, and I think personally does more than any other guild to give opportunities to people who come from outside of, I guess you'd call it, the expected avenues for advancement.”
“Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.”
“Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.”
“Our cake represents the best our families' bakeries Salt and Sugar have to offer," Pedro says, addressing the audience. "Two layers. There's the savory, nourishing quality of Parmesan corn and the sweetness of a guava-drizzled cake that's a reinterpretation of bolo de rolo. Two flavors that are dominant by themselves, meeting to complement each other." He points at each layer. "Salt and Sugar. Just like our families' bakeries."
The judge smiles. "Thank you, kids. And what do you call your cake?"
I meet Pedro's eyes. Deciding on the name wasn't hard. But saying it out loud in front of our families could go either way.
"Romário and Julieta," we say in unison.”
Source: Salt and Sugar
“Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.”
“Our call to action is to be in the flow of life, accepting life as it is and as it comes. We must allow life to be life in all its impermanent grandeur. Nothing remains the same, and those who fight change, or are in denial of it, create chaos within their own lives and the lives of those they have influence over.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Our calling is a heavenly calling, our inheritance is a heavenly inheritance, and our citizenship is in heaven.”
“Our calling is in our uniqueness”
“Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.”
“Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.”
“Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.”
“Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.”
“Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.”
“Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'”
“Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.”
“Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.”
“Our campaigns have not grown more humanistic because our candidates are more benevolent or their policy concerns more salient. In fact, over the last decade, public confidence in institutions-- big business, the church, media, government-- has declined dramatically. The political conversation has privileged the nasty and trivial. Yet during that period, election seasons have awakened with a new culture of volunteer activity. This cannot be credited to a politics inspiring people to hand over their time but rather to campaign, newly alert to the irreplaceable value of a human touch, seeking it out. Finally campaigns are learning to quantify the ineffable—the value of a neighbor's knock, of a stranger's call, the delicate condition of being undecided-- and isolate the moment where a behavior can be changed, or a heart won. Campaigns have started treating voters like people again.”
Source: The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
“Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got the message that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We often forget that we’re interdependent creatures whose very existence depends on the kindness of others, including—with a bow to Tennessee Williams—strangers.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more”
“Our canoe raced toward the rock.”
Source: The River Runs Orange
“Our canvas had faded, and slowly, we’ve started to repaint it together. Taking the washed out colours and bringing them back to life.”
Source: Card of Truth
“Our capabilities are never diminished by the fear that claims to shrink them.”
“Our capacities of humanity may not be as powerful as our innate primitiveness, but with each act of that humanity in our daily walks of life we make those capacities stronger, thus heading towards a future where those capacities of humanity will indeed be more powerful than our primitiveness.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.”
Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman
“Our capacity for happiness is inversely proportional to our capacity for sadness. You won’t feel happiness without experiencing sadness. The sadder you feel, the greater your capacity for happiness becomes.”
Source: Ups and Downs
“Our capacity for healing, health, and happiness is intricately tied to the well-being of the four dimensions of our heart: the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.”
Source: Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
“Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and with each moment we spend with those people. But, too often we neglect that part of ourselves in favor of others. And by the time we realize just how important it is, we find ourselves with fewer folks around to practice with.”
“Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.”
“Our capacity for reason brought us out of the jungles and gave us dominion, not only over the beasts that prey upon us, but also the beast within us.”
Source: Liberty and the Will to Power: A Manifesto for the Amoral Libertarian
“Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits”
Source: Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies (Third Revised Edition)
“Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.”
“Our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another.”
Source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Our capacity to disregard and discount viscerally painful experiences is so ingrained that we have come to believe that “moving forward” means not allowing ourselves to be moved at all.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”
“Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.”
Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition
“Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies heavily on memory and on the ability to retrieve and organize images and events from the personal pastIf we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.”
“Our capacity to resist has nothing to do with our intelligence but with the degree of access to our true self.”
“Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression”
“Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.”
Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise
“Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional owners capitalism where most of the rewards have gone to those who make the investments and assume the risks to a new and deeply flawed system of managers capitalism where the managers of our corporations our investment system, and our mutual funds are simply take too large a share of the returns generated by our corporations and mutual funds leaving the last line investors - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund owners at the bottom of the food chain.”
“Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.”
“Our car looks better than everything I've seen so far.”
“Our car would've burned up too, but Michael, who is only twelve, got in it and backed it away. I climbed in with him and noticed some of my school books in the car, so I took them out and threw them in the fire. I figured it would save me from doing a lot of homework, but unfortunately under the headline in the paper the next day that said HARPER'S MALT SHOP BURNS TO THE GROUND IN TRAGIC FIRE it also said that seen throwing her school books into the fire was little Daisy Fay Harper. Rat's foot! No wonder Hollywood stars hate reporters, and after all that some busybody do-gooder has already bought me a new set of books.”
“Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.”
“Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”
Source: Spontaneous Activity in Education