O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.”
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.”
“Our little systems have their day
They have their day and cease to be
They are but broken lights of Thee
And Thou, O L-rd, art more than they
We have but faith, we cannot know
For knowledge is of things we see
And yet we trust it comes from Thee
A beam in darkness: let it grow
Let knowledge grow from more to more
But more of reverence in us dwell
That mind and soul, according well
May make one music as before”
“Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.”
“Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.”
Source: Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649
“Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together with their tribe, at war with all those outside who they regard as barely human. What breaks a human mind out of that iron cage of mistrust, is a sacrifice. The martyr who gives up everything, who abandons all personal gain, who lays down his life for the good of those outside his group. He becomes a symbol all can rally around. So instead of trying to make a selfish, violent primate somehow empathize with the whole world, which is impossible, you only need to get him to remember and love the martyr. As one is forgotten, another must replace it.”
Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders
“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.”
“Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.”
“Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.”
Source: Euripides
“Our lives and the lives of future generations do not only depend on the conflicts that take place, but also on the solutions we offer in response to them.”
“Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes”
“Our lives are a constellation of events, strung together, glittering; the shapes only being seen from a distance.”
“Our lives are a continuous journey, and each day marks a new chapter.”
“Our lives are a flicker of light in the shadowy darkness of eternity. Disease, famine, war, death, sorrow... Life is a cycle of pain, perhaps the one thing we should do with our short lives is to try to leave the world a better place than we entered it?’"
~Vexis Zaelwarsh - Low Priestess to Avanti
-Deathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage”
“Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.”
“Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.”
“Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.”
“Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each.”
“Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Our lives are a picture of what we ought to do, what we need to do, what we are planning to do and what we want to do.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.”
“Our lives are a story shaped by circumstance, twisted by Fate, and ultimately judged by how we reacted.”
Source: What Really Happened to Steve Nathan
“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
“Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.”
Source: Look To Windward
“Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.”
“Our lives are always limited but the dreams and ambitions are not so, thing big and grow big because this is the only way which will keep you alive forever.”
“Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.”
Source: Lear
“Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
Truth is apt to be neither.”
Source: Teach Yourself Zen
“Our lives are blank canvases on which we paint our choices. There is no right or wrong; the colors just change, and if your painting turns out to be excessively dark, don't be discouraged. There are those who are drawn to the darkness.”
Source: Mediterranean Temptation : Inferno Hearts
“Our lives are born of the Ki of the universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals, but as human beings blessed with a universal mind. Let us pledge to fulfill our missions by helping to guide the development and creation of the universe.”
“Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.”
“Our lives are burdened by the weight of numerous obligations that serve no purpose other than fulfilling our belief that they serve a purpose.”
“Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.”
Source: Omicron
“Our lives are but our marches to the grave.”
“Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”
“Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.”
“Our lives are cluttered by complexities and that leads to problems. Genius is the one solves simple problems which seem complicated.”
“Our lives are co-authored in dialogue.”
“Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.”
“Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.”
“Our lives are composed of unexpected moments and unforgettable adventures.”
Source: Fire & Ice: The Lost Dreamer
“Our lives are constantly changing. Every day we deal with disruptions; it is just the extent of the disruption that varies. There are
infinite little self-adjustments that we can make, such as shifting our mood or energy, that help us deal with these disruptions. Just like the suspension of a car helps the car weather bumps in the road.”
Source: A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life’s Impossible Moments
“Our lives are constantly in a state of change and evolution. The things that cause you to identify as “you” are temporary, moving foundations. “You” were once just a mere collection of microscopic cells. Then you were a baby, and then a teenager, and so on. I am not the person that I was at 5, 16, or 24 years old (I am so thankful for this). Your attitudes will change; your beliefs will change; your clothes will change; your hair will change; your jobs will change. Everything will change!”
“Our lives are cycles. We only break the cycle through changing our perspectives, or by meeting with death.”
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
“Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.”
“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”
“Our lives are devoted to our absence—to the idea that no trace of ourselves should be left in our work.”
Source: Metropolitan Stories