O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.”
“Our focus has always been to facilitate minor shifts in the core logic of the species, finding tiny tiny little increments of language, logic and mythology which cascade into macroscopic cultural phenomena. Our understanding suggests that a 0.3% (.003) shift in base logic will cascade through the entire system. In this way we have a smaller critical mass to achieve, IF we can find the correct adjustments to make.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”
Source: Half the Sky
“Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.”
“Our focus is and should be on the leakers, not those that are obtaining it as part of legitimate newsgathering.”
“Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.”
“Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.”
“Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.”
“Our focus is on the forward end of things: the customer and what does he want to do? If you're buying underwear and household items ladders and everything else - I buy all sorts of stuff on Amazon Prime - why shouldn't I buy this? Any legal document, contract or otherwise, that prevents me from doing that, I don't want to be a part of.”
“Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.”
Source: Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement
“Our focus largely determines what we produce.”
“Our focus must always be on building people up.”
“Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.”
“Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.”
Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it
“Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.”
“Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.”
“Our focus should be on developmental dimensions of atomic science with a special outreach to India's youth.”
“Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.”
Source: Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
“Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.”
Source: Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
“Our foibles are really what make us lovable.”
“Our folks have a lot of passion. They're very concerned about the direction of the country and concerned the record debt and deficit and what it means for their kids, concerned about the economy and the fact that we're not getting back on track with the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression. And at the end of the day, I think that's going to make the difference.”
“Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of their small size and weakness. They would not treat them this way if they realized that these very small bees can carry honey which is very valuable in their stomachs.”
“Our folly was that we listened to the crows when we should have listened to the doves.”
“Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.”
Source: Sermons of George Whitefield
“Our food chain is broken, and our bodies are telling the story.”
Source: SUPPLEMENTS: Symptom of a Broken Food Chain
“Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.”
Source: Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!
“Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.”
Source: Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better Every Day
“Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.”
“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”
“Our food system depends on consumers’ not knowing much about it beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing who’s at the other end of your food chain to not caring- to the carelessness of both consumers and producers.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma
“Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.”
“Our foot step may slip without the order of God.”
“Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.”
“Our football program is bigger than any one person.”
“Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.”
“Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.”
“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.”
“Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!”
“Our Ford - or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters - Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers - was therefore full of misery; full of mothers - therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts - full of madness and suicide.”
Source: Brave New World
“Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.”
“Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.”
“Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.”
“Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.”
“Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.”
Source: The spectator
“Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.”
“Our forefathers were heroes. But why were they heroes? Because they fought for democracy. They fought for the life and liberty of the Filipino people. They fought for our independence, our freedom. They fought against tyranny, totalitarianism, and dictatorship. They fought for us and that is something we must be grateful for.”
Source: Naaalala Niyo Ba Ang Noli Me Tangere?
“Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.”
Source: 1949-1959
“Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.”
“Our foreign ministries will simply need to sort out some purely technical matters. I see no political restraints here. The same applies to economic matters. We, on our part, are ready. However, let me repeat once again, given that Japan has joined the anti-Russian sanctions, how ready is Japan and how can it do that without breaching its commitments to its allies? We do not know the answer. Only Japan itself knows the answer.”