O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.”
“Our lives are not mapped, they are made.”
Source: Ever My Merlin
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
“Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.”
Source: Bachelor Girls
“Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.”
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel
“Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.”
Source: 10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children: A Communication Guide for Parents to Connect with Children and Build Moral Character, Courage, and Family Connection
“Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.”
“Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.”
“Our lives are often so busy that we forget to stop and observe the world around us.”
“Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.”
Source: Running With Scissors
“Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.”
“Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.”
Source: The Solitaire Mystery
“Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what’s missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that’s why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.”
“Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.”
“Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.”
“Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!”
Source: Night Train to Lisbon
“Our lives are rounded with a sleep.”
“Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
“Our lives are ruled by these small, seemingly ordinary moments hat turn out to have improbably large effects. Such randomness is much more common in human affairs than in nature...”
Source: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
“Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide”
Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Our lives are shaped by our thoughts.”
“Our lives are shaped by those who love us”
Source: A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World
“Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.”
“Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.”
“Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.”
“Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.”
“Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.”
“Our lives are so visual now, with social media and we're constantly shifting gears. Nobody requires a table of contents. Nobody requires that one page leads to the next page, we're okay being surprised by things that are eclectic.”
“Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“our lives are stories we tell ourselves.”
“Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.”
“Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.”
“Our lives are testament to the choices that we make!”
“Our lives are the fruit of our most consistent thought patterns.”
“Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.”
“Our lives are the quiet sum
of every choice we make—each word spoken, each path taken, each silence kept. We are not shaped by chance, but by the hand of God guiding our will, moment by moment, forming us into who we are meant to be in His purpose. ~Luz Reyes Luna”
Source: The Deception Within
“Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?”
“Our lives are to be characterized by patience, for it is important in developing the mature, stable character which God wants to produce in His people.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.”
Source: A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility. Republ. from The Westm. review
“Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.”
“Our lives are woven together like these threads yet the beauty is fragile.”
Source: The Girl in The Red Cape
“Our lives are written by the divine hands of Him we are merely actors destined to complete the roles in the cosmic play. All that would make difference would be how well will you act!”
Source: The Voyage to Eternity
“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”
Source: The Store of a Million Items: Stories
“Our lives aren't meant to be fast and functional, like my weekday life had become. Our lives were created to be vibrant--enriched with the foods that make us feel like we’re truly living, to the very fullest.”
Source: Every Day Is Saturday: Recipes and Strategies for Easy Cooking, Every Day of the Week
“Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age - Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.”
“Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.”
“Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.”