O Quotes
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“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”
Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world
“Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.”
“Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.”
“Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.”
Source: Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness – Classic Devotional Meditations on the Character of Christ
“Our humility [vinaya] should be such that offensive beings [aparadhak jiv], become non-offensive [un-apradhak].”
Source: Fault is of the Sufferer
“Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.”
“Our hunger for the truth shouldn’t prevent us from asking questions. We are designed to explore, probe, and seek knowledge. It is beautiful and heartening when we do so, and our conclusions bring us back to what we naturally feel in our hearts.”
Source: Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life
“Our hunger must be to make impacts, and not to seek for applauds.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.”
“Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.”
“Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.”
“Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.”
“Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.”
“Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.”
“Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.”
“Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.”
“Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective”
“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation
“Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.”
“Our idea of the birth of the Universe through the Big Bang is only our limited idea about the Universe and not a real explanation of the Universe itself as it may be and not as we think it is. Therefore, we would have to define, in the first place, what a real Universe is. We have to determine whether we can always use our ideas about the Universe as a basis for understanding the Universe. But, if we are not sure we understand, or know with certainty, or at least to a high degree, what a real Universe is, in its totality, known and unknown to us, then we must think about it more hypothetically.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and soul together was an achievement, to the great present when "good" includes an agreeable, stable civilization accessible to all, the opportunity of each to develop his particular genius and the privilege of mutual usefulness.”
Source: People at work
“Our idea was to provide a platform for aspiring poets who can go on to say that they have been published alongside so and so. Often first-time writers are told that they need to experience life and write more. Putting the works side-by-side was to give young talent an edge. For instance, an 18-year-old’s works went alongside Gulzar’s, she (Fouqia) points out.
- The New Indian Express”
Source: Aatish 2
“Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.”
“Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.”
“Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.”
“Our ideals are our better selves.”
Source: Table-talk
“Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.”
“Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.”
“Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.”
“Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.”
“Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Our ideas are like boomerangs,when you throw them they are destined to come back.”
“Our ideas are like living entities, swimming in an ocean of other ideas. Every idea is being broadcast on a different frequency and has varying levels of resonance with those who respond to that frequency.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“Our ideas are transformed sensations.”
“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract”
Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.”
Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”
“Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.”
“Our ideas of gender and sex being opposites does not fit the overlapping complexity of gender or sex. Is a beach part of the land or the sea? It has aspects of both, and tides that flow between two states. Some genderfluid people experience something very similar and can only say with certainty where they are right now, knowing that tomorrow they may feel very differently.”
Source: Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide
“Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.”
“Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.”
“Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.”
“Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.”
“Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.”
“Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.”
“Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'”
Source: Day by Day with Charles Swindoll
“Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.”
“Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.”