O Quotes
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“Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.”
“Our guest—Comrade Stebletsov—is not merely speaking about rooting out class enemies from Soviet society; he is doing so in practice!” the homeroom teacher declared grandly. “He is a member of a grain requisition squad and therefore a true executor of the Bolshevik Party’s line to eliminate the kulaks as a class! And today, the best among you, children, are given the opportunity to prove your loyalty to the cause of Lenin and Stalin. Peter! Marusya! Stand up!”
The children rose from their desks in confusion.
“As top students and Young Pioneers, you are entrusted by our school collective with participation in an important state mission!” The teacher’s chest seemed to swell with pride as her chin lifted higher. “You will represent our school as public members of the grain requisition squad. Together with your senior comrades, you are assigned to uncover grain hidden by kulaks and saboteurs. Our class enemy does not sleep—he seeks to sabotage the industrialization of the USSR. He hides grain from the Soviet state, condemning the proletariat to suffering. But we will not allow the vile accomplices of the rich to rob our people! We entrust you with a responsible mission: as part of the requisition squad, you will locate and pour into the granaries of the Motherland the grain illegally concealed by the kulaks!”
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Three
Context note:
Set during the Holodomor of 1933, this scene illustrates how Soviet schools became instruments of communist propaganda. Children were mobilized as Young Pioneers and encouraged to participate in grain confiscation campaigns against peasants branded by the regime as “kulaks.” The language of class struggle and industrialization masked the immense human cost of forced collectivization and the state-imposed famine in Ukraine and across the USSR.”
Source: Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга третя. Несправджені сподівання.: Все буде Голодомор.
“Our guest tonight is Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States. She's here to announce her run for president.”
“Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.”
“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.”
“Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.”
Source: Montauk
“Our guns were still strapped onto our backs, because a gun meant life. Without it there was no life in the LRA. After crossing the water and walking for a long time, there was a whisper in my heart, telling me that if we kept the guns we would get killed.
I was learning to listen to this gentle voice that spoke to my heart. This time what was said was hard to accept. I didn't know how I would convince my friends to throw away what seemed to be their last hope. The voice would not leave me alone. It continued to whisper in my ears to drop the guns.”
“Our guys have a vision of something bigger.”
“Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.”
“Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.”
“Our habits and our fears make our choices. We are an algorithm of ourselves--if you liked that you may also like this.”
Source: The Gap of Time
“Our habits limit what we can see, access, sense, and know.”
Source: The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
“Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.”
Source: Process and Reality
“Our habitual tendency is to look past all the good things others have done for us and to instead focus on and replay every real or imagined slight. Finding time in your life to actively cultivate gratefulness is an important part of the practice of loving-kindness.
Gratefulness softens your heart and helps reduce your anger and gratefulness seeds the soil to allow loving kindness to grow naturally into joy and peace.”
Source: Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
“Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African.”
“Our hair points to the sky, the place we'd rather be....”
Source: Vox Humana
“Our handicaps exist only in our minds.”
“Our hands are the tool of tools that we need to achieve. Our hands describe more than there is to their physique. Our hands are extensions of our minds, in as much as the branches are fruits of the roots of a tree. The rest is determined by the effort, persistence and consistency, whether we bear fruits or not.”
“Our hands can steal, or they can give. They can harm, or they can comfort. They can wound and kill, or they can heal and save. Which will you choose for your hands Torin?”
Source: A River Enchanted
“Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light”
“Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.”
“Our hands will never be too small for helping those who are in need as long we have the heart to care.”
Source: KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”
“Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.”
“Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.”
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
Source: Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
“Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.”
“Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.”
Source: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
“Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.”
Source: Where Love is: A Novel
“Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.”
“Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves.”
“Our happy God should be worshiped by a happy people.”
Source: Spurgeon on the Psalms: Book Four
“Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.”
“Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.”
“Our head is designed to broaden our capability of analyzing facts, events and draw the right conclusions”
“Our head is designed to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us”
“Our head is designed to develop our intelligence, to devote ourselves to self- education, self -improvement and to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us”
“Our head is designed to devote ourselves to self- education”
“Our head is there to facilitate our coming to an understanding of our purpose and setting the necessary goals to achieve that purpose”
“Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window.”
“Our heads are round so thought can change direction”
“Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best.”
“our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“Our heads will happen cold when this is found.”
“Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.”
“Our healing becomes real when we don’t deny the shattered pieces their rightful place in our becoming, but we see their benefit and we turn that into a shining light on a new path.”
Source: Healing Your Attachment Wounds: A Guide to Healing What's Hidden in Your Attachment Style and Relationships
“Our healing will not come in a divine grace that reunites us, bringing you back into my womb for us to live by one wholly integrated will. My grace is to wait, to love you through the detours your life takes, even if you travel far from me; to be present to you in hope and prayer; and to bring you near Love by reflecting love to you. I can help birth your will into freedom and goodness chiefly by being reborn into such freedom and goodness myself.”
Source: Motherhood: A Confession
“Our health and the planet’s health are intertwined, both deeply reliant on these invisible networks of life.”
Source: Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World around us