O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.”
“Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.”
“Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.”
“Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.”
“Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.”
“Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.”
“Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981
“Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.”
“Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.”
Source: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
“Our national poet WB Yeats said that every Irish writer had a decision to take: whether to express Ireland or exploit it. In his day, the choice lay between expressing the nation to itself or exploiting it for the amused condescension of a mainly overseas audience.
Holding a mirror up to the people was a risky business: many, seeing an unflattering image, were inclined to smash the glass in anger.”
“Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.”
“Our national problem has not been ignoring the Civil War, but turning it into a kind of theme park in which nostalgia and mendacity have eclipsed the raw and unpleasant truth that one army fought, and lost, a battle for the liberty to enslave other human beings, while the other, full of imperfect men fighting for a variety of motives, secured the emancipation of those human beings and thereby preserved a political experiment underwritten by the idea of equality.”
Source: Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
“Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.”
“Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water we drink contains poison, our cultures are systematically replaced by "anti-culture", history is a big lie, et cetera et cetera. Of all the options I chose to start this blog, to spread dissent, to tell others - yes Burzum fans too - that there is an alternative to all of this.”
“Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.”
“Our native gift of speech enables us to enter on the mental life of man by assimilating our cultural heritage. We come into existence mentally, by adding to our bodily equipment an articulate framework and using it for understanding experience. Human thought grows only within language and since language can exist only in a society, all thought is rooted in society.”
Source: The Study of Man
“Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
[Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos
Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]”
“Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.”
Source: The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing
“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”
“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”
“Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.”
“Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.”
“Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.”
Source: The Summing Up
“Our natural gifts and abilities are limited, but when augmented by inspiration and guidance of the Holy Ghost, our potential increases many fold.”
“Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.”
“Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay at nights with it? take care of it when it cries? heal its rashes and sores? and on top of that care for my spouse, provide labor at my trade, take care of this and take care of that? do this and do that? and endure this and endure that? Why should I make such a prisoner of myself?”
“Our Natural Rights -Life, Freedom, and Property- are inalienable rights that everyone in the world has and shares, and they are being attacked at every step. Most people accept it without question or any protest or resistance.”
Source: COVID19 – Short Path to 'You'll Own Nothing. And You'll Be Happy.': Welcome to the New Age of Tyranny
“Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other... By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.”
“Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.”
“Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"”
“Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.”
Source: Conformed to His Image / Servant as His Lord: Lessons on Living Like Jesus
“Our natural world is teeming with acts of miracle, yet we keep obsessing over the supernatural!”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.”
“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”
Source: Pensées
“Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.”
“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”
“Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.”
“Our nature is intelligent. In fact, everything is intelligent. Intelligence for me is information. Information is intelligence. And then there is information driven by energetics. And the energetics is operated by the matter, which has manifested here. This is where you and I come in. The human body is matter. Plant material, and this tea I am drinking, is matter.”
“Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.”
“Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.”
“Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."”
“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
“Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.”
“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.”
Source: On Bullshit
“Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.”
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good.”
Source: Villette