O Quotes
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“Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.”
Source: The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
“Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.”
“Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity.”
“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary task is to organize the masses and lead them in the struggle for economic freedom.”
“Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.”
“Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.”
“Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.”
“Our objective as a realist is to maximize our worth, and our objective as a romanticist is to be foolishly youthful.”
Source: On Resistism
“Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.”
“Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.”
“Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.”
“Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.”
“Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.”
“Our objective is to make our-self the perfect embodiment of love, peace and compassion. We may fail, but that is not the point, the point is that we have tried and perfection can be achieved by practice only.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.”
“Our objective, let it always be remembered, is not the attainment of architectural data, but the formation of taste.”
Source: The Poetry of Architecture
“Our obligation as parents is not to make our children happy but to teach them how to be happy; it's not to make them comfortable but to teach them how to tolerate discomfort. For these lessons—upsetting to them as they may be now—will better equip them for survival later when it matters most.”
“Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.”
“Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.”
“Our obligation is to ourselves and obligating to ourselves the job of defending and protecting America is how we serve other people around the world, not by letting this country go to hell. We are under no such obligation.”
“Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.”
“Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.”
Source: Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay
“Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.”
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams”
“Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
Source: The irresistible Diderot
“Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.”
“Our obsession of being accepted by others has turned us into a society that has No shame . No love. No remorse . No morals. No role models. No direction. No rules. No laws. No gender . No culture. No religion. No respect of others and for ourselves. Mostly we have No boundaries. That is why the things are the way they are now.”
“Our obsession with chasing comfort and happiness is leading us down the wrong road... because circumstances (like these) only lead to short-term happiness.”
Source: Hunting Discomfort: How to Get Breakthrough Results in Life and Business No Matter What
“Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.”
“Our obsession with scarcity makes us take for granted the very things that our survival depends on—air, water, climate, food, safety or even relationships. It’s only when something critically important becomes scarce and hence expensive that the human mind begins to acknowledge its value.”
Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
“Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.”
“Our obstacles are tough, so are our potentials. If we don't unleash our potentials, our obstacles will cripple us!”
Source: Let's go to the Next Level
“Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.”
“Our offense is aggressive. We play to win. We attack. Our defense is unrelenting. We will hit you. Then do it again.”
Source: It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life
“Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!”
“Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.”
“Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.”
“Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.”
“Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.”
“Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.”
“Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.”
“Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.”
“Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.”
“Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.”
“Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.”