O Quotes
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“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”
“Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.”
“Our fathers are never what they are," she says, " but what we imagine them to be.”
“Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not but three oaks.”
Source: Urne Burial
“Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb”
Source: A Grain of Wheat
“Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their
fathers. These laws were good.”
“Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.”
Source: The Story of an African Farm
“Our fathers never leave us. Ever.”
Source: The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1
“Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders”
“Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.”
Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.”
Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters
“Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.”
“Our fathers were both rude and bold,
And would not live like brothers;
But we are of a finer mould -
We’re much more like our mothers!”
“Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.”
Source: What Really Happened in Peru
“Our Fathers were demons. Our Mothers were Hero's”
“Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.”
Source: New-England's Memorial
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.”
“Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.”
Source: Lodore
“Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.”
Source: The works
“Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.”
“Our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.”
Source: Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)
“Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.”
“Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.”
Source: Tablets
“Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!”
Source: The Story of My Life
“Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.”
“Our fear builds fictional prisons within which too many of us voluntarily serve out fictional life sentences that become the fact of our existence.”
“Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.”
“Our fear leads us to say no all the time.”
“Our fear of aloneness incites us to look for love. The terror of never finding anyone to share of with lives eventually causes us to forgo our natural shyness, mingle with other people, and express compassion.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861
“Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.”
“Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.”
“Our fear of others only ends when we bring them in from the terrifying darkness to our fireside and share our bread and companionship with them. Then, and only then, may we find the light together.”
“Our fear of the dark reveals our true nature. In the darkness, the light can be seen for what it is... The salvation of civilization. Yet, place anyone under a big enough magnifying glass, he'll get burned. ~Oliver Oyanadel”
Source: Little Arson Annie: Short Stories
“Our fear originates on a completely different level -that of the failure of the Grand Narrative of our society. This is the narrative of mechanistic science, in which man is reduced to a biological organism. A narrative that ignores the psychological, symbolic, and ethical dimensions of human beings and thereby has a devastating effect at the level of human relationships. Something in this narrative causes man to become isolated from his fellow man, and from nature; something in it causes man to stop resonating with the world around him; something in it turns the human being into an atomized subject.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.”
Source: The Anti-communist Impulse
“Our fear. That was how the god's grew great.”
Source: Ariadne
“Our fear, the saga of our good deeds, the stories of our thoughts should be spread so far, that even our enemies should praise us... "What is the matter....??" "क्या बात है....??”
“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.”
“Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.”
“Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.”
“Our fears are illusions created by the mind of the beholder”.”
“Our fears are those that cause cancer and those fears operate in the regions that the drugs we use to hide our fears is the most predominate feeling. Our minds cause our inner illness for the most part.”
“Our fears become unhealthy and can be used as weapons when they originate from imagined dangers and prevent us from doing things we may otherwise enjoy.”
Source: The Almost Broken Mind: How to Regain Mind Control Through Mind Management to Get the Mind on Track With Mental Fitness to Stop the Mind Wondering so You Can Mind Your Business
“Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.”
“Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.”
“Our fears keep us from forming good, sound relationships with others and stops the vital heart beat of life, that compassionate heart that cares and understands others.
Quote from: The Spirit Of Truth is Power: Reviving Faith In Jesus Christ The first book in the Foundational Faith in Truth Bible Study Series”
Source: The Spirit of Truth Is Power: Reviving Faith in Jesus Christ