O Quotes
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“Our mantra was simplicity.”
“Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.”
“Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.”
“Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.”
“Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.”
“Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.”
“Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.”
“Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.”
“Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.”
“Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.”
“Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.”
“Our marriage—the one we had grown accustomed to for over ten years—was over. But that didn't mean we couldn't start again and build a better marriage.”
Source: Dissonance
“Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.”
“Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs. It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony. It was not an easy choice in any way. But I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. That was a decision I made for me, for our son and for our family.”
“Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.”
“Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.”
Source: Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000
“Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.”
“Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.”
“Our Master can see it all. If you drive down a long curvy road, you don’t see the twists and turns until you are on top of them. But when you see things from a much higher perspective, you can see the whole road and the twists and the turns and the beginning and the end. In Heaven we can see where you are in relation to where you’re going and we can make things happen along the way at the intersections of life. We can create the right time and the right place and we can already see how it all ends. We can see the whole story of your life while you are living it in little bits and pieces.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
“Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.”
“Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.”
“Our material progress has come at the cost of spiritual regress.”
“Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.”
“Our matriarchs had an interesting advantage over today's western women. Matriarchs didn't begin their marriage with love. Instead, they were taught how to love. They entered marriage with an earnest determination to grow a love that would sustain their marriage for a life time.
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Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.”
“Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.”
Source: God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times
“Our meals, the dishes we're creating, bring on new sensations---an awakening of sorts for certain people, albeit nostalgia or something else. Food brings on emotions---and we're doing things right if we're bringing them out in people."
"Food is about balance of flavors and textures and taste, not emotion."
Charles grips my shoulders. "Kate, when you cook, how are you doing it? With anger or with love?"
"Probably a little of both sometimes," I gasp. "What are you saying? People are eating my emotions? Like in that movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar? Simply Irresistible? She was a chef, like me, with a flailing restaurant, and there was a rich guy, like you. And a crab."
He snickers. "This is real life, not the movies. And I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.”
Source: The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique
“Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.”
“Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.”
Source: Lovecraft's Works
“Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.”
“Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.”
“Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect”
“Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.”
“Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists.”
“Our media regularly publishes hit pieces, and a large portion of the people are like its attack dogs. One might say that those are the useful idiots: they become like dogs, and their owner says, 'Sic 'em!”
“Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.”
Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
“Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.”
“Our medic will want to dig your shotgun pellet out of my shoulder."
She grimaced. "Sorry about that."
He smirked. "Not the roughest kind of foreplay I've had."
That sexy grin scorched her from the inside out.
Oh. My.”
Source: Cowboy Wolf Trouble
“Our meditation practice, as Christians, is dedicated to three main priorities: welcoming the Holy Spirit, living a more Christlike life, and building His kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
Source: Meditations on Christ: A 5-Minute Guided Journal for Christians
“Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.”
“Our meeting had that quality of sweetness that lingers, that lasts for a lifetime; even if you never speak to the person again, see their face, you can always return in your heart to that moment when you were together to be renewed...”
Source: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.”
Source: Blood of Eden
“Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.”
Source: Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy
“Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.”
Source: I Have Abandoned My Search for Truth, and Am Now Looking for a Good Fantasy: More Brilliant Thoughts
“Our melanin will always make us marvelous...
Just imagine what that sea of sisterhood would look like. Magic!”
“Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.”
“Our memories and experiences are the lenses through which we see the world, and even though Calvin and I were looking at the same exact lights, I knew we were seeing different things, and I wished I could see them through his eyes.”
Source: At the Edge of the Universe
“Our memories and the stories we tell ourselves are what we ponder on as we slow down or approach our final years.”
Source: The Art of Finding Truth: One Man's Journey Through Love, Life, Grief and Joy