O Quotes
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“Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Our Destiny is very scripted and unpredictable by the universe. What ever happened was meant to be”
“Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Our destiny will make you find me again.”
“Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.”
Source: The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of D. W.; the Declaration of Independence; and Washington's Farewell Address, Etc
“Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.”
“Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.”
“Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.”
“Our devices don’t have feelings (yet!) — if they did, they would be equivalent to the needy narcissistic partner for whom no amount of attention is ever enough. They superficially appear to care about you, give you just enough positive feedback to keep you interested in them, but never genuinely ask how you feel about your relation- ship. You doubt that you should get more serious, but it’s too easy to stay.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes”
Source: A War of Words: Chicano Protest in the 1960s and 1970s
“Our devotion should center on the cause of the oppressed, the tyrannized, the humiliated and hurt masses that have no place at the table, given the system that is at hand.”
“Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.”
“Our dietary problems arise from a mismatch between the tastes evolved for Stone Age conditions and their likely effects today. Fat, sugar, and salt were in short supply through nearly all of our evolutionary history. Almost everyone, most of the time, would have been better off with more of these substances, and it was consistenly adaptive to want more and try to get it. Today most of us can afford to eat more fat, sugar, and salt than is biologically adaptive, more than would ever have been available to our ancestors of a few thousands years ago.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Our differences are beautiful, yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like the fact that we are all trying, all struggling, all wanting to be seen and to be loved. Perhaps if we start there, with this basic understanding of what it means to be alive, we will grow in our connection to one another and learn to love the beautiful differences that embody our improbable human reality.”
“Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.”
“Our differences are special. They're our gifts to be shared.
They shouldn't be shameful or a reason to be scared.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“Our differences are special. They're our gifts to be shared. They shouldn't be shameful or a reason to be scared.
Of everything you could be and everything you do, the greatest thing of all, Henri, is simply to be you.”
Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love
“Our differences expose our blind spots and magnify our strengths to multiply our impact.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“Our differences in beliefs
do not truly separate us,
or elevate us over others.
Rather,
they highlight the rich tapestry
that is humanity.”
“Our differences should not be exaggerated.”
“Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.”
Source: Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
“Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.”
“Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.”
“Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.”
Source: Christianity and Culture
“Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.”
“Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Our digital devices and the outlooks they inspired allowed us to break free of the often repressive timelines of our storytellers, turning us from creatures led about by future expectations into more fully present-oriented human beings. The actual experience of this now-ness, however, is a bit more distracted, peripheral, even schizophrenic than that of being fully present. For many, the collapse of narrative led initially to a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder—a disillusionment, and the vague unease of having no direction from above, no plan or story. But like a dose of adrenaline or a double shot of espresso, our digital technologies compensate for this goalless drifting with an onslaught of simultaneous demands. We may not know where we're going anymore, but we're going to get there a whole lot faster. Yes, we may be in the midst of some great existential crisis, but we're simply too busy to notice.”
Source: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
“Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language”
Source: From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.”
Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings
“Our dignity is the armour we wear.”
“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.”
“Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.”
“Our directives must be reassessed.”
“Our disappointment sits between us.”
“Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.”
“Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
“Our discourse reveals the answer to what powered the Big Bang. If we claim that matter, as we see and understand it, is not matter, the conclusion is that matter (energy) is the product of an immaterial Being or Universal Mind.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Our discussion has been about education and not about schools, for schooling is only a means, and not always an absolute necessary one, toward education. Parents had the duty of educating their children long before there were any schools, and the duty would remain were all schools abolished. Even today, if the parents have the ability and the leisure to give adequate instruction to their children at home, they have no moral obligation to send them to school at all. (p. 436)”
Source: Right And Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice
“Our discussion of equity was quite wide-ranging and went far beyond the matter of treating similarly meritorious individuals similarly and into the domain of also treating all individuals with a baseline level of respect and autonomy.”
Source: Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models
“Our dispersing party watched as he braced my waist in his broad hands and easily hefted me off the horse, none more closely than Ianthe.
I only patted Lucien on the shoulder in thanks. Ever the courtier, he bowed back.
It was hard, sometimes, to remember to hate him. To remember the game I was already playing.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.”
“Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.”
Source: Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society
“Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.”
“Our Disruptive Thinking Canvas provides a streamlined six-step process, consolidating the foundational principles of our work in one location.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Our distracted digital world is here to stay, so the question is more of how we can truly embrace the beauty that is the stillness and the silence.”
Source: Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck
“Our distrust is very expensive.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.”