O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.”
“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”
“Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist.”
Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature, mutilated and over-exploited, can no longer reconstitute itself and we refuse to admit it. Humanity is suffering. It is suffering from poor development, in the North as in the South, and we are indifferent. The Earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible. It is time now to open our eyes”
“Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.”
“Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.”
Source: The Lacuna
“Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.”
“Our house is our corner of the world.”
“Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.”
“Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.”
“Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.”
“Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast”
Source: The Anatomy of Wings
“Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.”
“Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.”
Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“Our house was outside the city, off one of the blacktop roads. We had us a big dog that my daddy would keep on a chain in the front yard. A big part German shepherd. I hated that chain but we didn’t have a fence, we were right off the road there. That dog hated that chain. But he had dignity. What he’d do, he’d never go out to the length of that chain. He’d never even go out to where that chain got tight. Even if a mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. He just up and made it not relevant. Maybe he wasn’t pretending—maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All his life on that chain. I loved that damned dog.”
Source: The Pale King
“Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.”
“Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.”
“Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.”
“Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.”
“Our Human Body is part of Nature be connected with nature to avoid the disease.”
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval”
“Our human flaw is that we are constantly searching for good people. Yet, when we find them, we begin looking for faults in them. If we don’t find any, we choose to create them in our minds. It is as if we seek them out only to judge, burden, or use them. We claim to seek goodness, yet rarely choose to be good, because we know good people are often exploited by people like us.”
“Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.”
“Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.”
Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.”
“Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.”
Source: Calvinism
“Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.”
“Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.”
“Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.”
“Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.”
“Our human self is just a wrapper, a shell to hold us in, so that we can settle our debts and learn some things that we could not learn otherwise.
We shall cast aside that shell as soon as the lesson is learned.
In truth, we are the essence of the divine experiencing itself. We cannot be contained, we are expansive, formless and radiant.
Our human self is no more than a transient vehicle, fit for purpose.
Our true self is no less than empty, joyful, eternal love.”
“Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.”
Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution
“Our Human thinking brain operates by way of prediction, comparing new experiences to and constructing its perception from what is already believed to be true due to past experience. Without a mature intuition – thinking and feeling balanced and united—even groups trying to work together will only be capable of experiencing what has been going on in this sensory brain since about the 8th Century to the present.”
Source: Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity
“Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.”
“Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.”
“Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.”
“Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.”
“Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.”
“Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.”
“Our humanity ends where our words about humanity end. Without a name, we have nothing to lose and nothing to grieve.”
Source: The Limits of My World
“Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo.”
“Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.”
“Our humanity is global. You will find this shared humanity indomitably present in every circumstance of life. Therefore, if we dare to appeal to the commonality of our shared humanity as our primary and unrelenting endeavor, we would utterly transform what is being completely destroyed.”
“Our humanity is indelibly linked to our treatment of one another. Humane treatment grows humanity. Inhumane treatment destroys humanity. At its roots, humanity is an elegantly simple equation - input equals output.”
“Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.”
“Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort.”
Source: So You Want to Talk About Race
“Our humanity possesses needs of such depth and intensity that the whole of our humanity itself is woefully inadequate in its ability to meet those needs. And while such an amazing paradox would readily invite us to embrace the notion that something greater than us exists, we adamantly ignore any such possibility. As such, we run ourselves to a host of graves where we bury the precious parts of ourselves that should never have been buried. And I would suggest that Christmas was the time that God came so that every grave would remain empty because every need would be met.”