O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.”
Source: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire
“Our rulers stopped choosing names for their children after their third babe died.”
Source: The House Witch 2
“Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.”
“Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.”
“Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.”
“Our rural Florida well water had no fluoride. So the
state let kids sign up for a monthly treatment. Handed
us a small paper cup in the library. It made your
mouth tingle. We called it "The Swish." Few used this
program. It's not hard to see why. A teacher once told
our class I was going "to drink poison." This scared
everyone. But I never died.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I.”
“Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.”
Source: Not vanishing
“Our sacred character develops; we connect to source of life, the Creator.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Our sacred character develops, when we connect to source of life, the Creator.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as a spiritual document that our soul recognizes.”
“Our sacred future depends on what we dedicate ourselves to becoming.”
Source: Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature
“Our sacred routines have become ruts and our life default settings are rarely ever challenged or changed.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.”
Source: Rilla of Ingleside
“Our sacrifice—the best we have to offer,
And not our worst nor second best, our best,
Our very best, our lives laid down like Jonah's
Our lives laid down in war and peace—may not
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
And that they may be is the only prayer
Worth praying. 'May my sacrifice
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.”
Source: A Masque of Mercy
“Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’”
Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You
“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”
“Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.”
Source: Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German
“Our safety is not in ourselves, nor in imperfect fellow-men; not in the church, nor in its office-bearers: it is in the Lord -- in that Lord who, on the night before his death, ordered all things aright for the battle of tomorrow: & let us not forget that he wakes while we sleep; that he is preparing rescue before we have seen the hazard; and that although evil should descend swift as the lightening, his arm can transcend its speed, and intercept its stroke. -- David King, 'The Lord's Supper.”
“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
“Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.”
Source: The Classical Music of North India: The first years study
“Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.”
“Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.”
“Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.”
“Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit.”
Source: The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better
“Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.”
Source: The Place of Help: A Book of Devotional Readings
“Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.”
“Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.”
“Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.”
“Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!”
“Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.”
Source: The shrine at Altamira
“Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.”
Source: Damage: a novel
“Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!”
“Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to serve others.”
“Our Savior invites us on a daily basis to cleanse our names and return to His presence. His encouragement is full of love and tenderness. Envision with me the Savior’s embrace as I read His words: “Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?”
“Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.”
Source: Showings
“Our Savior Jesus did this; He was murdered for exposing their hidden agenda. Lead us to the king with a kiss of death, He was led to the cross & hung as He breathed his last breath.
If the mass could understand perfect practice prevents poor performance, they would undoubtedly follow a practice that was perfected to perform life from death to the poor, to the needy, to the blind, and to the deaf but they refuse because they delight in darkness accepting it as Light. It's an awakened vision that sets men free of its oppressive tyranny.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.”
Source: James
“Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'”
“Our saviors are actually our killers. They have created enemies for us when we had none and are paying our enemies. They are the ones causing instability and mayhem, then blaming us for not living in peace while they are the ones starting all the wars.”
“Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.”
“Our scars are a testament that we arrived at the battle.”
Source: White Knuckle
“Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.”
“Our scars are just gifts from our enemies...reminding us they weren’t good enough to kill us.”
Source: Godsgrave
“Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost.”
Source: Little Monsters
“Our scars define us. They tell a story of courage and survival. They tell of who we are at our deepest being, of the challenges we've faced and overcome.”
Source: The Gilded Cage
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real”
“Our scars make us who we are. Some scars are just deeper than others.”
Source: Tryst
“Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life—the fact that we carry what may seem to be unsightly scars—does not disqualify us from following Jesus. It may be precisely what qualifies us.”
Source: Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?