O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.”
“Our competition in life is solely with our old self.”
“Our competition is different. They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they'll do next?”
“Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.”
“Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.”
“Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.”
“Our computer can tell everything about us and this information can be good or bad. Let's secure them today.”
“Our concept is sharing,' lisped Sam, 'as a waiter once said to me in a restaurant I never went back to. The food was delicious, but I couldn't get past the "concept". I can just about put up with conceptual art—if I'm caught in a thunderstorm and there's a warm gallery across the street—but conceptual food is out of the question.”
Source: Parallel Lines
“Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.”
“Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we are naturally one of the most beautiful peoples out there, we don't see it. We don't get the point. Hollywood sets the standards.”
“Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.”
“Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.”
“Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.”
Source: Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism
“Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.”
Source: Metaphors We Live By
“Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
Source: Cosmos
“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”
“Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."”
“Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .”
Source: A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life
“Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.”
Source: Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi
“Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.”
“Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.”
“Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.”
Source: The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno
“Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.”
“Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.”
“Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; the world judges us by our behavior. People don't necessarily want to know what we believe about the Bible. They want to see if what we believe makes a difference in our lives. Our actions either bring glory to God or misrepresent His truth.”
“Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That’s why unity in the body of Christ is so important.”
Source: Understanding Your Blessings in Christ: Ephesians
“Our conduct will never change God's character.”
“Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking.”
“Our confidence comes from our preparation.”
“Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.”
“Our confidence is in Christ, in him we are made complete.”
“Our confidence is the grace of faith in Jesus Christ.”
“Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.”
“Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.”
Source: Choiceless Awareness
“Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.”
“Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.”
“Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.”
Source: Christian Science
“Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.”
“Our connection to Jesus is not a onetime thing; it is something to fight for and nourish.”
Source: Brave Surrender: Let God’s Love Rewrite Your Story
“Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.”
“Our connection was like a hidden force pulling us towards one another, and resisting it took a strength that I didn’t know I could keep up for much longer.”
Source: Remembrance
“Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.”
“Our connections to the Oneness of the Universe/God are both physical/atomic matter and nonphysical spiritual/energy.”
Source: The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
“Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.”