O Quotes
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“Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.”
“our dreams draw blood from old sores.”
Source: Spell number seven
“Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.”
“Our dreams evolve with us; never feel as though you are abandoning your dream if it no longer harmonizes with who you are today.”
“Our dreams exist outside of our comfort zone and the way we're used to doing things.”
Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom
“Our dreams
have been assaulted
by a memory that will not
sleep”
“Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.”
“Our dreams make us large.”
“Our dreams make us who we become. Never ever stop dreaming.”
“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.”
“Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.”
“Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.”
Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)
“Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.”
Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)
“Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”
“Our dreams require a day to day commitment; we must remain relentless in pursuit of our goals.”
“Our dreams seldom approach us; the rule is this: We must approach them!”
“Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.”
Source: The Book of Idle Pleasures
“Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.”
“Our dreams, like the disciples’, are always too small. We are here to fulfill God’s dream—that we will bring Him glory through a remarkably abundant life. That’s how we find our greatest personal fulfillment, now and for eternity.”
Source: Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance
“Our drinking of God as the living water is for the church as His increase; our drinking is for the producing of His enlargement, His fullness, for His expression.”
Source: Life-Study of Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel
“Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.”
“Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.”
“Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“Our duty as Latter-day Saints is to prepare ourselves, this earth, and its inhabitants for the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being prepared and being strong as the gospel teaches ensure happiness here and hereafter and make this 'grand millennial mission' possible.”
“Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.”
“Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.”
Source: Trusting God Study Guide: Even When Life Hurts
“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.”
“Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.”
“Our duty is to call on God, his duty is to respond at the right time.”
“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”
Source: Karma Yoga
“Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us”
“Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.”
Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things
“Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.”
“Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.”
Source: 1903-1905
“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us
by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country
during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to
that all personal and local considerations.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”
Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places
“Our duty would be to create, in the place of the outdated (Ottoman) Empire, a new national entity in harmony with its historic and linguistic unity and its desires.”
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
“Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.”
Source: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.
“Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe”
“Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.”
“Our earliest ancestors evolved a psychological switch that allowed them to dehumanize and kill members of their own species, and our modern weapons help too, by depersonalizing killing.”
Source: Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
“Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.”
“Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.”
“Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.”
“Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.”
“Our early days - our audiences were always very sparse. We played very obscure places in very obscure parts of the world, mainly Kansas. We played frat parties, we played high school proms, we played clubs.”
“Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth”
Source: A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
“Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.”
Source: A Child Is Born - A Modern Drama of the Nativity