O Quotes
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“Our first kiss was there on the bridge in the woods. How do you describe a first kiss? It is like trying to hold water in your hands. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that compares kissing to drinking salted water. “You drink, and your thirst increases,” it says. Time, I’m sure, passed by, but we remained unavailable for comment.”
Source: Beware of Love in Technicolor
“Our first kiss would be in a sunlit wood or under a starry sky after a village dance, not in a tomb or some dank basement with guards at the door.”
“Let me get this straight,” Nina said. “You haven’t kissed me because the setting isn’t suitably romantic?”
“This isn’t about romance . A proper kiss, a proper courtship. There’s a way these things should be done.”
Source: Crooked Kingdom
“Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.”
“Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Our first murshid (spiritual guide), Suleyman Dede, never claimed to do anything himself. When Suleyman Dede visited the United States, he said, „God brought me to this country, and He has taken me to all these different places, and He has arranged for these meetings to occur, for people to come, and He has made me say certain things. It is really amazing because I am not doing anything.“ (p. 10)”
Source: In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching
“Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.”
Source: Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men
“our first photo was taken
sometime in nineteen ninety-three.
two toddlers in nappies,
neighbours, before we had a word
for what we’d grow to be.
inseparable.”
Source: half of these are about you
“Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox from birth or dressing up a dog to look like a fox. Or hiring David Attenbrorough, who probably knows a few foxes well enough to ask a favour.”
Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
“Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.”
Source: Sovereignty of God
“Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.”
“Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.”
“Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.”
“Our first priority is our kids.”
“Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.”
“Our first project, LIFE BEHIND BARS VOL. I is the most comprehensive photographic study to date of exotic and endangered animals and the necessity of their being kept in captivity for their own protection, and that of their species” declares Julian Starks.”
“Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.”
Source: The Rosie Project: A Novel
“Our first responders risk their lives to help others. The least we can do is make sure they have the resources they need to do their jobs.”
“Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.”
Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success
“Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.”
“Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.”
“Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.”
“Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.”
“Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.”
“Our first spiritual task is to develop friendship between North Korea and USA. The second spiritual task is to solve the issues of the Jerusalem and the middle east. The third spiritual task is to develop deep respect and trust between the people of all religions. These are all spiritual crisis and those should be solved first by spiritually. Once, they are spiritually solved, political solution will just follow.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.”
“Our first teacher is our own heart. When we begin to tune in and listen to our heart we can bring our thoughts and actions into alignment to reflect our wholeness.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.”
“Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.”
“Our first youth is of no value; for we are never conscious of it until after it is gone. But sometimes-always, I suspect, unless one is exceedingly unfortunate-there comes a sense of second youth, gushing out of the heart's joy at being in love; or, possibly, it may come to crown some other grand festival in life, if any other such there be. This bemoaning of one's self (as you do now) over the first, careless, shallow gayety of youth departed, and this profound happiness atyouth regained,-so much deeper and richer than that we lost,-are essential to the soul's development”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.”
“Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.”
“Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.”
“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”
“Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.”
“Our fix-it-itis is not a simple social gaffe but the evidence of a deep blind spot born with the help of the market. We are educated about illness by television commercials... A puzzle like me that cannot be solved is a point of discomfort, a disjuncture, a black hole... My body is a discomfort, a burr in the hide of the marketplace itself, a reminder that not all pain can be treated with a purchase.”
Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
“Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.”
“Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.”
“Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.”
“Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.”
“Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.”
“Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.”
“Our flaws add to the beauty of diversity – we'd never know to appreciate it without a nuanced perspective.”
Source: Part Two: Execution
“Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.”
“Our flaws are what make us perfect.”
“Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.”
Source: Seriously ... I'm Kidding
“Our flaws either follow us into the world, or wait for us to be born.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Our flesh is a gift of laughter.”
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Our fleshly desires bind us in slavery; Christ holds the key to freedom.”