O Quotes
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“Our sit-in action unmasked many things. We realized that human rights organizations are not truly advocates of rights. We saw that writers and artists are hypocritical. We observed that they mention victims of the state, but they do not even speak the names of victims of organizations”
Source: Dağbozumu
“Our situation and circumstances are not always the karma that our enemies and haters would love to think that it is... I am convinced that when you've done nothing wrong; it is the perpetual manifestation of GOD's GLORY and the evidence will be seen in the outcome. Don't let your temporary circumstance and situation prematurely punctuate the end of your story.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“Our situation and circumstances are not always the Karma that our haters and enemies would like us to think that it is. It's the manifestation of GOD's Glory and the evidence will be in the outcome. Don't let your temporary situation prematurely punctuate the end of your story.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“Our situation is almost desperate, but there are some possibilities of deliverance, and it is these that I’m considering. If at any moment we may perish, so equally at any moment we might be saved. So let’s be prepared to grasp even the slightest opportunity”
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth
“Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse
is to sit here and do nothing.”
Source: On the Bus With Rosa Parks
“Our situation is more psychological than people will admit.
Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do.
They see no value.”
“Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will support the prosperity & union of the colonies. On the other we have struggled for liberty & made costly sacrifices at her shrine and there are still many among us who revere her name to much to relinquish (beyond a certain medium) the rights of man for the dignity of government.”
“Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.”
“Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.”
“Our skill with metaphor, with thought, is one thing — prodigious and inexplicable; our reflective awareness of that skill is quite another thing— very incomplete, distorted, fallacious, over-simplifying. Its business is not to replace practice, or to tell us how to do what we cannot do already; but to protect our natural skill from the interferences of unnecessarily crude views about it; and, above, all, to assist the imparting of that skill — that command of metaphor — from mind to mind. And progress here, in translating our skill into observation and theory, comes chiefly from profiting by our mistakes.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.”
“Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.”
“Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.”
“Our skin is what stands between us and the world.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe cares about white or black humans, it seems, and what meaning could physical appearance possibly have when there are sentient beings that look like lobsters or like Jabba the Hutt? Unfortunately, in the real world, such hopeful sentiments are regularly refuted by our stubborn insistence on always finding someone to discriminate against.”
“Our Skirt (by Kathy Boudin)
You were forty-five and I was fourteen
when you gave me the skirt.
¨It's from Paris!¨ you said
as if that would impress me
who at best had mixed feelings
about skirts.
But I was drawn by that summer cotton
with splashes of black and white--like paint
dabbed by an eager artist.
I borrowed your skirt
and it moved like waves
as I danced at a ninth grade party.
Wearing it date after date
including my first dinner with a college man.
I never was much for buying new clothes,
once I liked something it stayed with me for years.
I remember the day I tried
ironing your skirt,
so wide it seemed to go on and on
like a western sky.
Then I smelled the burning
and, crushed, saw that I had left a red-brown scorch
on that painting.
But you, Mother, you understood
because ironing was not your thing either.
And over the years your skirt became my skirt
until I left it and other parts of home with you.
Now you are eighty and I almost fifty.
We sit across from each other
in the prison visiting room.
Your soft gray-thin hair twirls into style.
I follow the lines on your face, paths lit by your eyes
until my gaze comes to rest
on the black and white
on the years
that our skirt has endured.”
Source: Aliens at the Border: the Writing Workshop, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
“Our sleeping hours are our most vulnerable time. Mouths open, drool spilling, involuntary farting, eyeballs darting under eyelids in the most disconcerting way. Then there's snoring. The horn blast of an ocean liner is nothing compared with me. Our sleeping selves are the opposite of what we wish people to see. Stay awake and stay in control.”
Source: On Sleep
“Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.”
“Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.”
“Our small victories always trick us into believing that we have arrived, but let us not be carried away by the trophies, lest we forget where we came from, and where we are going.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Our smart devices can know more about the quality of our sleep than the people who share our beds.”
Source: On Sleep
“Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.”
Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.”
“Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.”
“Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.”
Source: American Individualism
“Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.”
“Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.”
Source: #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
“Our social culture reaps the hatred it sowed.
We base our life on competition at the expense of others, on the contemptuous individual superiority, domination, and the race for power. Abolish humiliation. Show affection. And you’ll eliminate many crimes.”
Source: The Alien
“Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“Our social mission as a manufacturer is only realized when products reach, are used by, and satisfy the customer . . . We need to take the customer's skin temperature daily.”
“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.”
“Our social skills are currently inadequate to the pluralistic societies we are living in. In my job as a journalist, I often find myself interviewing people who tell me they feel invisible and disrespected: Black people feeling that the systemic inequities that affect their daily experiences are not understood by whites, rural people feeling they are not seen by coastal elites, people across political divides staring at each other with angry incomprehension, depressed young people feeling misunderstood by their parents and everyone else, privileged people blithely unaware of all the people around them cleaning their houses and serving their needs, husbands and wives in broken marriages who realize that the person who should know them best actually has no clue. Many of our big national problems arise from the fraying of our social fabric. If we want to begin repairing the big national ruptures, we have to learn to do the small things well.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together
“Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.”
“Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.”
“Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.”
“Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas.”
“Our society buries most of those that contribute above their station. It disbelieves them, labelling them whatever nickname will soil their reputation the most at the time. That's the standard protocol for political and economic warfare.”
Source: We Are One
“Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.”
“Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.”
“Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.”
“Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.”
“Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion”
“Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.”
“Our society does a wonderful job of telling people what to think; whether by parents, teachers, or even the media. But, a productive society needs to prepare its people to think for themselves, and their first consideration being the thorough examination of what they are being told to think.”
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time. A thin young woman with precancerous lungs [who smokes to stay thin] is more highly rewarded socially that a hearty old crone. Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden [an intrinsically unattainable standard of beauty used to punish women for their failure to achieve and conform to it]and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.”
“Our society doesn't actually benefit from our healing, from a Black woman recognizing her innate worth and living from that truth.”
Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom