O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?”
“Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.”
“Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.”
“Our contemporary poverty is as transparent as glass and as invisible as the air. Our poverty is kilometer-long lines, the constant elbowing, spiteful officials, trains late without reason, the water cut off by some disaster (...), the monotony of living without any hope whatsoever, the decaying historic cities, the provinces emptying the rivers poisoned. Our poverty is the grace of the totalitarian state by whose grace we live.”
Source: A Minor Apocalypse
“Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.”
Source: The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters
“Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Our contemporary Western celebrations forget the dead altogether, or at least remove them from any association with grief and loss. They offer no comfort to those who mourn. We are, after all, a society that has done all it can to erase death, to pursue youth to the bitter end, and to sideline the elderly and infirm. For most of us, the old tradition of laying out our own dead is long forgotten, and the idea that we might be intimate with death is now some kind of a gothic joke. Today's Halloween simply reflects what we secretly think—that death is a surrender to decay that makes us monsters.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.”
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.”
Source: The Hatred of Poetry
“Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.”
Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household
“Our content carries the Forbes name, and our whole mantra is to put authoritative journalism at the center of the social media experience.”
“Our content Is our best having.”
Source: King Richard III. King Henry VIII
“Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.”
“Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle.”
“Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and with peer support. And that needs to be reimbursed [by health insurers], because it shows huge reductions in overall spending.”
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.”
“Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.”
“Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.”
“Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.”
“Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.”
“Our continuous learning is always the sign that we are alive and evolving, and we can be sure that with patient persistence, we will grow towards the light that illuminates our whole being, allowing us to be the guiding lights for others.”
“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”
“Our conversation flowed soft and easy, like a breeze on a summer’s day—such a pleasure.”
Source: A Decade of Desire: Erotic Memoirs from The Office Diaries
“Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up.”
“Our conversation was deep, so he lightened the mood in a second, finding an easy distraction in front of us – taking the call to join in with the cheering, and I followed. A Mexican wave got too big to ignore, pulling us to our feet, popping us out of our bubble, reminding us that we were not alone. But back down in our seats, our Gemini souls found more words, our minds unable to stop.”
Source: The Shift: A Memoir
“Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.”
“Our conversations are fateful. What we think, say, and do influences every moment in our lives.”
Source: Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement
“Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes.”
“Our conversations have the power to dissolve the illusion of our differences.”
Source: My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different
“Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...”
“Our conviction that God made a mistake is shaped by our inability to see the utterly ingenious purpose that lays behind His design. And we don’t see that purpose because our focus is riveted on the effort to correct something that was never wrong.”
“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.”
Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
“Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.”
Source: Thinking photography
“Our core addiction is to struggle. All of the other addictions are an attempt to numb out from the heartache and stress that come hand and hand with struggle.”
“Our core beliefs serve as the primary framework for shaping our perception and the construction of our reality.”
Source: Manifestation Mindset: The 12 Universal Laws of Creation
“Our core necessities constitute clean air and water, nutritional food, meaningful social interactions, knowledge, shelter, and safety. Everything exceeding this core requirement only serves as social ‘fluff’.”
“Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.”
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is intended for the nonscientist, it provides an accurate guide to the best current thinking about the nature and constitution of our universe. If I wanted to give a gift to a person I would like to become a close friend, this is the book I would choose.”
“Our costliest expenditure is time.”
“Our could always run
but we could never hide
Our souls crave this magic.”
“Our countries are like our families. It’s fine for us to find fault with our own, but I don’t like it when other people feel free to criticize my family and expect me to agree and join in the condemnation.”
Source: Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner
“Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us from epidemics. These things cross borders. But the kind of cooperation that would protect us from those things was completely lacking and because of this there's been a backlash. People feel vulnerable.”
“Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.”
“Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.”
“Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.”
“Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.”
“Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.”