O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.”
“Our memories are independent of our wills.”
Source: The works: With a biographical sketch
“Our memories are lodged in my mind like pieces of broken glass that hurt when I breathe.”
Source: The Prince and the Thief
“Our memories have emotions attached to them and make us feel like that’s who we are. We get stuck because our lives can’t be more than what we believe about ourselves.”
Source: Light in the Shadows
“Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“Our memories make us who we are...”
“Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.”
“Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.”
“Our memories - those thinly veiled fragments from a time long ago, those wisps and threads of a Christmas past arrive without warning, and beckon us back to earlier years like persistent waves lapping along the shores of a familiar lake.”
Source: Lanark County Christmas
“Our memories, they can be inviting. But some are altogether, mighty frightening.”
“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”
“Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.”
Source: The Interpretation of Dreams
“Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.”
Source: In One Person: A Novel
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
Source: Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James
“Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.”
“Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.”
Source: Within a Budding Grove
“Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.”
Source: My Last Breath
“Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.”
“Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.”
“Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.”
“Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.”
“Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.”
“Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.”
“Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels, health, and well-being to a far greater extent than most people realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small, impacts our inner energy reserves.”
“Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.”
Source: How to stop worrying & start living
“Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.”
“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for non-smoking areas ten years ago.”
Source: Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--any Why We Must
“Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.”
Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
“Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.”
“Our Mercy, who never gets mad when she can get even.”
Source: Cry Wolf
“Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.”
“Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.”
Source: Christian Reflections
“Our mess, our marvel.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.”
Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a
“Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.”
“Our message of the day is service does not need a title.”
“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.”
“Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.”
“Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open. Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.”
“Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a glorified sausage machine, taking in information from the senses, processing it and regurgitating it in a different form, as thoughts or actions. The digital computer reinforces this idea because it is quite explicitly a machine that does to information what a sausage machine does to pork. Indeed, the brain was the original inspiration and metaphor for the development of the digital computer, and early computers were often described as 'giant brains'. Unfortunately, neuroscientists have sometimes turned this analogy on its head, and based their models of brain function on the workings of the digital computer (for example by assuming that memory is separate and distinct from processing, as it is in a computer). This makes the whole metaphor dangerously self-reinforcing.”
Source: Creation: Life and How to Make It
“Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross.”
“Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation.”
“Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.”
“Our midnight feasts aren't so much 'lashings of ginger beer' as 'whatever booze we can smuggle in'.”
Source: Girlhood
“Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.”
“Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.”
“Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.”
“Our military has been so badly depleted. Who would think the United States is raiding plane graveyards to pick up parts and equipment? That means they're being held together by a shoestring. Other countries have brand-new stuff they have bought from us. It's insane.”
“Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.”