O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our pride is not a mere emotion, but a force that runs through our veins. It is stronger than the blood that gives us life, and it cannot be diluted or drained by oppression.”
“Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don’t like, working with people we can’t stand, engaging in pursuits we’re not wholeheartedly passionate about.”
“Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.”
“Our priests like to be called father, while claiming that they are fatherless.”
“Our primary emphasis isn’t on physics and chemistry; it’s on the sciences of life.”
“Is that a matter of principle?”
“Not entirely. It’s also a matter of convenience and economic necessity. We don’t have the money for large-scale research in physics and chemistry, and we don’t really have any practical need for that kind of research—no heavy industries to be made more competitive, no armaments to be made more diabolical, not the faintest desire to land on the backside of the moon. Only the modest ambition to live as fully human beings in harmony with the rest of life on this island at this latitude on this planet. We can take the results of your researches in physics and chemistry and apply them, if we want to or can afford it, to our own purposes. Meanwhile we’ll concentrate on the research which promises to do us the greatest good—in the sciences of life and mind.”
Source: Island
“Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.”
“Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.”
“Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.”
“Our primary objective in every mortgage transaction should be to borrow in a way that reduces debt, improves financial stability, and helps us get debt free in as short a time as possible!”
Source: Navigating the Mortgage Maze: The Simple Truth About Financing Your Home
“Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.”
“Our primary threat today is ISIS. And because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement that would have allowed some American combat troops to remain in Iraq and secure the hard fought gains the American soldier had won by 2009, ISIS was able to be literally conjured up out of the desert, and it's overrun vast areas that the American soldier had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
“Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten”
“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.”
“Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.”
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
“Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.”
“Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.”
“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.”
“Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.”
“Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.”
Source: Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung
“Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.”
Source: The Social Monster: A Paper on Communism and Anarchism
“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.”
“Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both individual and coordinate, defines and symbolizes the distance we have come from mere animality. It is by these means that our lives come to more than what they instrumentally yield. And by meaning more, our lives yield more.”
Source: The Nature of Rationality
“Our Principles of Permaculture Capital Stewardship set us apart from other Asset Management firms. These principles allow us to model nature in the way we steward Capital to ensure portfolio resilience, steady ROI and profit.”
“Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.”
“Our priorities are misplaced. We blame the wrong people, direct our anger at them for the wrong reasons, and focus on the wrong things. That’s why our lives have turned out this way.”
“Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.”
“Our priorities is our faith.”
“Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.”
“Our priorities should be: recognizing the voice of God and responding to the voice of God.”
“Our priority in Syria, really hasn't changed. I think the President Donald Trump has been quite clear. First and foremost, we must defeat ISIS.”
“Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.”
“Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.”
“Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.”
“Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.”
“Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.”
“Our privacy can serve as a form of protection during times of crisis and can offer a polite boundary of respect and good manners during times of tranquility.”
Source: The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence
“Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.”
“Our private property must be sacrificed.”
Source: Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States
“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.”
Source: The Walls Around Us
“Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“Our probie kicked the door in before we gave the okay. We don’t think he’s going to make it on the task force, Cap. He’s too much of a hot-head.”
Oh, fuck that. There was no way that they were going to pin this on him. Syn growled and took several determined steps toward Day before God was there, blocking his path.
“You might want to think about your next move very carefully. Especially if it involves touching him.” God’s voice lowered to a frightening timbre.”
“Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.”
“Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.”
“Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.”
“Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.”
“Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.”
“Our problem is a political problem and needs a political decision. We are ready for any step, and we must be guaranteed that we will not be sold out or betrayed. We would be supported militarily and financially.”
Source: Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement: Fourth Edition, 1975-1990 - The Gulan Revolution, Part One
“Our problem is civil obedience”