O Quotes
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“Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.”
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”
Source: Anathem
“Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.”
“Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.”
“Our opportunities to do good are our talents.”
Source: Essays to Do Good
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved.
As we remember that “when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God,” (Mosiah 2:17) we will not find ourselves in the unenviable position of Jacob Marley’s ghost, who spoke to Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s immortal "Christmas Carol." Marley spoke sadly of opportunities lost. Said he: 'Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I!'
Marley added: 'Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!'
Fortunately, as we know, Ebenezer Scrooge changed his life for the better. I love his line, 'I am not the man I was.'
Why is Dickens’ "Christmas Carol" so popular? Why is it ever new? I personally feel it is inspired of God. It brings out the best within human nature. It gives hope. It motivates change. We can turn from the paths which would lead us down and, with a song in our hearts, follow a star and walk toward the light. We can quicken our step, bolster our courage, and bask in the sunlight of truth. We can hear more clearly the laughter of little children. We can dry the tear of the weeping. We can comfort the dying by sharing the promise of eternal life. If we lift one weary hand which hangs down, if we bring peace to one struggling soul, if we give as did the Master, we can—by showing the way—become a guiding star for some lost mariner.”
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.”
Source: The Search for Jesus: A Christmas Message
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved.”
Source: The Search for Jesus: A Christmas Message
“Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.”
“Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.”
“Our options oftentimes on foreign policy are not a choice between a good one and a bad one. It's a choice between two less-than-ideal options. And you're trying to figure out which is the least harmful of the two. And I think that's something we should be encouraged by, not something that we should be critical of.”
“Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.”
“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”
“OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.”
“Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.”
“Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.”
“Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde.”
“Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Our orthodox friends need not be told that all merit in this world is comparative; and once for all, we desire to say that where anything which involves qualities or character is asserted, we must be understood to mean "under the circumstances.”
Source: The Pioneers
“Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to attain.”
“Our outlines feel the same. I think I can hide inside you.”
Source: I'm Sorry. I Know It's Too Late... But This is How I Loved You
“our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.”
Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels
“Our overarching mission is to deliver inclusive capitalism to rural, urban, and global communities. We are passionate about enabling our clients and customers to participate in the modern economic system, regardless of their location or circumstances.”
“Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998
“Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.”
“Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.”
“Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.”
Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“Our own age need not begin congratulating itself on its freedom from superstition till it defeats a more dangerous temptation to despair.”
Source: The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
“Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.”
Source: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
“Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.”
“Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.”
Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“Our own body is the best health system we have-if we know how to listen to it.”
“Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
“Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.”
“Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.”
“Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence”
“Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.”
“Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.”
Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition
“Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.”
“Our own difficulties shouldn’t blind us to the difficulties of others.”
Source: Baker's Magic
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of the multiverse no end.”
Source: The Woman Who Died a Lot
“Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.”
“Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.”
“Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.”
“Our own existence once presented the greatest of all mysteries, but ... it is a mystery no longer because it is solved. Darwin and Wallace solved it ... I was surprised that so many people seemed not only unaware of the elegant and beautiful solution to this deepest of problems but, incredibly, in many cases actually unaware that there was a problem in the first place!”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“Our own flaws infuriate us in other people.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.”