O Quotes
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“Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or for being determined by the evolution which our species has undergone over millions of years. Rather, they are more valuable as a result of this: they are real. They are the complex reality of which we are made. Our reality is tears and laughter, gratitude and altruism, loyalty and betrayal, the past which haunts us and serenity.”
Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
“Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.”
“Our morality changes everything
that holds truth
- while the hate you paint with
just recolours the lines of history.”
“Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.”
“Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.”
Source: America and the young intellectual
“Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.”
“Our mornings were never "rise and shine." They were "rise and fight." They were loud and ravaging. They were heavy and unnerving, like the after-math of a war, with unresolved territorial disputes.
They were never serene, but they were beautiful. More beautiful than the smile you wear when you step out of the shower, more tempting than the sight of you brewing coffee from across the kitchen bar, more promising than a glorious victory, bigger than all our tumultuous past. Bigger than you. Bigger than I.”
“Our mosque was bombed. Our community members were threatened with deportation, and one of our own has been framed for a murder she didn’t commit. And . . . we are the terrorists?”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.”
“Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan
“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.”
“Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.”
“Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.”
“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”
“Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.”
“Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7% and robbery by 3%... While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that's precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.”
“Our most cultural state is one of total certainty—which is the reason those of us who are most certain are those who are most out of touch with nature (i.e., reality).”
Source: Delusionism
“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”
Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.”
Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
“Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.”
“Our most effective response to terror and to hatred is compassion to unity, and it's love.”
“Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.”
“Our most exciting discoveries come from studying anomalies. The once-in-1000 occurrence is worth getting detail on.”
“Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.”
“Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred.”
“Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.”
“Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.”
“Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.”
“Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.”
“Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.”
Source: The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection
“Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.”
“Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.”
“Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.”
“Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people’s successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.”
“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.”
Source: The American notebooks
“Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.”
“Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.”
“Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'”
“Our most merciless enemy is our past.”
“Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.”
“Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.”
“Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.”
“Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.”
“Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our most powerful asset in life is the ability to make choices for ourselves. This freedom to choose, we must conquer fiercely, cherish dearly, and practice cleverly. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
“Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity.”
Source: Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness
“Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.”