O Quotes
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“Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.”
Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.”
“Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.”
Source: The select works of Benjamin Franklin
“Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.”
“Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to grasp the idea. He dresses up like a gentleman, but he seems to be too great a soul to behave like one. He insists on the ways of the stage conspirator. Now if a gentleman goes about London in a top hat and a frock-coat, no one need know that he is an anarchist. But if a gentleman puts on a top hat and a frock-coat, and then goes about on his hands and knees — well, he may attract attention. That's what Brother Gogol does. He goes about on his hands and knees with such inexhaustible diplomacy, that by this time he finds it quite difficult to walk upright."
"I am not good at goncealment," said Gogol sulkily, with a thick foreign accent; "I am not ashamed of the cause."
"Yes you are, my boy, and so is the cause of you," said the President good-naturedly. "You hide as much as anybody; but you can't do it, you see, you're such an ass! You try to combine two inconsistent methods. When a householder finds a man under his bed, he will probably pause to note the circumstance. But if he finds a man under his bed in a top hat, you will agree with me, my dear Tuesday, that he is not likely ever to forget it. Now when you were found under Admiral Biffin's bed—"
"I am not good at deception," said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.
"Right, my boy, right," said the President with a ponderous heartiness, "you aren't good at anything.”
Source: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.”
Source: The Waves
“Our friends are dead, but their memories remain, like a feather floating in the wind, with care we can preserve it.”
Source: A Tudor Turk
“Our friends are friends with us not for us but for themselves.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“Our friends are siblings we discover, while our siblings are friends gifted to us by fate.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.”
“Our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.”
“Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.”
“Our friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors contribute to make us what we are. We should be humble enough to appreciate and accept their respective roles in shaping our persona.”
“Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.”
“Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.”
“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.”
Source: Table-talk
“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”
Source: Table-talk
“Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.”
“Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.”
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
“Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.”
Source: Wet Moments
“Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.”
Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Our friends, the enemy.”
“Our friendship [ with Don Handfield] has remained all that time, and I'm godfather to his kids, but then when The Hurt Locker came around, I just knew there was a lot of opportunity that was coming in, and just couldn't really manifest any opportunities because things were busy.”
“our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.”
“Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.”
Source: Small Ceremonies
“Our friendship is stronger than most people because we talk and breathe in the same room and we eat and sleep in the same place”
“Our friendship was forged in the dark, watching movies with the curtains drawn or hiding out in our place beneath the tree. With all these spotlights on him, will he still be able to see me?”
Source: All My Bests
“Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.”
Source: Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
“Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.”
“Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being.”
“Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.”
“Our fundamental impulses are neither good nor bad: they are ethically neutral. Education should aim at making them take forms that are good. The old method, still beloved by Christians, was to thwart instinct; the new method is to train it. Take love of power: it is useless to preach Christian humility, which merely makes the impulse take hypocritical forms. What you have to do is to provide beneficent outlets for it. The original native impulse can be satisfied in a thousand ways—oppression, politics, business, art, science, all satisfy it when successfully practised. A man will choose the outlet for his love of power that corresponds with his skill; according to the type of skill given him in youth, he will choose one occupation or another. The purpose of our public schools is to teach the technique of oppression and no other; consequently they produce men who take up the white man’s burden. But if these men could do science, many of them might prefer it. Of two activities which a man has mastered, he will generally prefer the more difficult: no chess-player will play draughts. In this way, skill may be made to minister to virtue.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it.”
Source: Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart
“Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.”
Source: Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we tell others - and ourselves - about who we are.”
Source: Consciousness Explained
“Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.”
“Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that's largely been sustained.”
“Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.”
Source: Keys to Success
“Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.”
“Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.”
“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
“Our future depends on how we understand the past.”
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”
“Our future depends on what we do with our time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You