O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.”
“Of all the ways that God could show up, He showed up by coming down. Therefore, despite the shortness of my reach it is never outside the length of His grasp.”
“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”
“Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us.”
“Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.”
“Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled, keep it loaded, keep it close. With a cool head, steady hand, and plenty of ammunition, one human is more than a match for an army of zombies.”
Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”
“of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.”
“Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem
“Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.”
“Of all the wicked heresies and threatening movements facing the church in our day, when Westminster Seminary finally organized their faculty to write something in unison, they gave their determined political efforts not to fight socialism, not to fight homosexuality, not abortion, not crime and mayhem in our society, not subjectivism in theology, not dispensationalism, not cultural relativism, not licentiousness, not defection from the New Testament, not defection from the Westminster Confession of Faith, all of which are out there and they can give their legitimate efforts to… boy the thing they had to write about was theonomy! How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he doesn’t see the problem?”
“Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.”
“Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“Of all the wonderful things government says, that's always been just about my favorite. As opposed to if you get to keep the money. Because what you'll do is go out and bury it in your yard, anything to prevent that money from creating jobs. They never stop saying it.We will say, "This is expected to create x number of jobs." On the other hand, we never say that the money we removed from another part of the economy will kill some jobs.”
“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.”
“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.”
Source: An Island Garden
“Of all the wonderful things that men and women share, shoes, tragically, are not one of them. This is because men lack the shoe chromosome.”
Source: Shoes never lie
“Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)”
Source: Julius Caesar
“Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.”
“Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.”
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
Source: Cat's Cradle: A Novel
“Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined" words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut down, combined, and recombined to convey new needed meanings, The language mint is more than a mint; it is a great manufacturing center, where all sorts of productive activities go on unceasingly.”
“Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.”
Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.”
“Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.”
“Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington”
“Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.”
“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.”
Source: Triptych
“Of all things I liked books best.”
“Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.”
Source: My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography
“Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.”
“Of all things love is the most potent.”
“Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.”
“Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.”
“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.”
Source: Medea
“Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.”
Source: Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions
“Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.”
“Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.”
“Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales
“Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.”
“Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
“Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.”
“Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.”
“Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.”