O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our history is unpredictable.”
Source: The New Land
“Our history is unpredictable. Who knows what will we be in some future past tense?!”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.”
“Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.”
Source: The Greening of America
“Our history told of kings that smiled and kings that conquered. He was the latter.”
Source: Candidate
“Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.”
“Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.”
“Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.”
“Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”
“Our holidays began here in Catania, this loud, bustling city pulsing with memories. I know these scenes, like a movie once adored and now almost forgotten. I know the large square lava-stone pavers that line the footpaths. I can smell salty, fishy air coming from the fish market I think is just down the far end of the square. I remember this intense heat, the sea breeze flowing like water between the buildings, down the alleyways, never quite cooling enough.”
Source: Just One Taste
“Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.”
“Our holy duty is to pray. The answer belongs to God.”
“Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.”
“Our home is a belonging place.”
Source: Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
“Our home is our castle, our sanctuary, our haven of safety. It is where we can just be, create, and enjoy the pleasures of life. Jewel Star”
Source: 7 MAGIC KEYS TO BUYING A HOME: What You Need to Know for Savvy Home Buying
“Our home is our castle [...] Some removal from all this is healthy. We retain our moral fiber, unsullied.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.”
“Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.”
“Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.”
Source: Green Dolphin Country
“Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.”
Source: Accidental death of an anarchist
“Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.”
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
“Our homes need to be more Christ-centered. We should spend more time at the temple and less time in the pursuit of pleasure. We should lower the noise level in our homes so that the noise of the world will not overpower the still, small voice of the Holy Ghost. One of our greatest goals as parents should be to enjoy the power and influence of the Holy Ghost in our homes.”
“Our homes should inspire us to go out into the world to do great things and then welcome us back for refreshment.”
“Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted.”
“Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Our hope begins to tremble.
Our dreams begin to sway.
Is it the beginning of the end
of mankind’s reign on earth?
We don’t know. We really don’t know.
We may, as a species, pass on too.
The earth keeps finding something new.”
“Our hope can be only as deep as our lament is. And our lament as deep as our hope.
Now there is a distinction to be made between true lament and the more sinister form of sadness we know as despair. Despair is lament emptied of hope. It is a shell that invites the whole of your soul to dwell in its void. Many of us will visit this shell, but despair depends upon our staying. With no framework for healthy lament, I was a prisoner to sadness.
Even still, it's not good to drag someone from their lament out of fear of despair. In fact, being forced too quickly out of lament can drag the soul into despair in secret. We are left to wander in sadness but without a confidant to help guide us out of the void.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we’ve scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.”
“Our hope for redemption is now just another hunt for vengeance.”
Source: Heroes in Crisis
“Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.”
“Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.”
“Our hope is a certainty based on the truths that God is in complete control of our universe and that He loves us.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Our hope is a word and world of proud, independent nations that embrace their duties, seek friendship, respect others, and make common cause in the greatest shared interest of all: a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful Earth.”
“Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.”
“Our hope is our offering to Him, our sacrifice. And in our hope, He is shaping us, molding us, drawing us to Him. We will now Him here, friend.”
Source: Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful
“Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.”
“Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.”
“Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit.”
“Our hope is to support projects that promote the personal and educational development of young people through creative programs that embrace innovation while celebrating rich traditions and cultural exchange”
“Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?”
“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Our hope will never be found in the efforts of man, but in Jesus Christ alone.”
“Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.”
“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.”
“Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.”
“Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.”
“Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.”
“Our hospital was famous and had housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”
Source: Girl, Interrupted