O Quotes
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“Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.”
“Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.”
Source: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
“Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the theatre without the climax. Even its design is marred for a small piece is missing out of the side. That is why it remains so unsatisfied: it wants life and it gets death: it wants Truth and it has to settle for an education; it craves love and gets only intermittent euphoria’s with satieties. Samples, reflections and fractions are only tastes, not mouthfuls. A divine trick has been played on the human heart as if a violin teacher gave his pupil an instrument with one string missing. God kept a part of man's heart in Heaven, so that discontent would drive him back again to Him Who is Eternal Life, All-Knowing Truth and the Abiding Ecstasy of Love.”
“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.”
“Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.”
“Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.”
Source: Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress
“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.”
“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.”
“Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.”
“Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.”
“Our portion is not constantly looking back at our fears and failures”
“Our ports wouldn't have backlogs if our supply chains, distribution systems and transportation systems mimicked fungal networks.”
“Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law.”
“Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.”
“Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.”
“Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.”
Source: Church Dogmatics
“Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.”
“Our positive thoughts are an infinite source of energy.”
Source: Quantraz
“Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.”
Source: Who Put My Life on Fast-Forward?: How to Slow Down and Start Living Again
“Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.”
Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
“Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.”
“Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.”
“Our postindustrial, materialistic, secularized culture does not encourage the awakening of our essential Self. Widespread consumerism, self-indulgence, habits of immediate gratification, the moral relativity of our age, and the displacement of individual and communal responsibilities by large corporations, institutions, and bureaucracies bring us fewer moments of truth, fewer encounters with our essential and authentic selves. The distraction of entertainment that appeals to every human weakness and the pervasive artificiality that technology has brought leave us little chance of being what we are meant to be.”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“Our posture NOW defines our portion later!”
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Our potential is determined by God’s potential. His potential is unlimited”
“Our potential is not defined by our circumstances but by the depths of our courage, the breadth of our vision, and the resilience of our spirit.”
“Our potential is the canvas upon which we paint the masterpiece of our own unique and purposeful life.”
“Our potential knows no bounds, transcending barriers of circumstance or status, igniting the flame of possibility within each of us.”
“Our potential should not be limited by where we are born, nor our dreams be diminished by our current circumstances.”
Source: I Am a Girl from Africa
“Our potential to be prolific runs away from us whenever we chase perfection.”
“Our potentially prosperous nation is beset by treasonous imbeciles, forgoing commonsense and reason for fearmongered, preconceived notions they've been gaslighted into by the very people profiting from their ignorance.”
“Our poverty in spirit makes us vulnerable to the IOU seduction of darkness.”
Excerpt From: Paul Renfroe. “Nobody Sees This YOU.”
Source: Nobody Sees This You: How to Live as a Spirit in the Unseen Realm
“Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess”
Source: Total Surrender
“Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.”
“Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.”
Source: Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life
“Our power is in our ability to decide.”
“Our power is in our homeplace, in our roots”
Source: The Wild Folk Rising
“Our power is in the present.”
Source: The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self
“Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.”
“Our power lies in our love of our homelands.”
“Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.”
“Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.”
“Our power to think is infinite, consequently that means our creative power is unlimited!”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.”
“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.”
“Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.”