O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our state of mind defines our character, whether it is or not socially acceptable toward others.This is the way it can part of our identities when we communicate with our surroundings in our everyday life”
“Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Our state of mind reflects in our work.”
Source: Quantraz
“Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.”
“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
Source: Walden and Other Writings
“Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”
Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
“Our status in the dustbin and our status in the whatsapp are stupidly different”
“Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.”
“Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.”
“Our steel-tipped step-ladder arrows will let us rescue that injured stork that settled down on top of the obelisk and can't fly away!”
Source: Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Vol. 1
“Our steps are divinely ordered by God! Although sometimes we do not understand.”
“Our steps are invisible ordered by the Divine Being from the day of birth to the day of death.”
“Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun”
Source: The sand child
“Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.”
Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches
“Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.”
“Our stomachs live in towns," said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.”
“Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.”
Source: Let Me Finish
“Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.”
“Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We search to become human in a world that tempts us always to be less than human or looks to us to be more. We search to love and to be loved. And in a world where it is often hard to believe in much of anything, we search to believe in something holy and beautiful and life-transcending that will give meaning and purpose to the lives we live.”
“Our stories are by nature problem-solving tools, and we are problem-solving beings.”
Source: The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
“Our stories are different; our pain is the same.”
“Our stories are full of memories that we can choose to relive or grow from.”
“Our stories are made of what we loved and what we lost along the way.”
“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”
“Our stories are
one and the same, our destinies forever intertwined and defined by our
sweat, our sacrifice and our unyielding dedication to defying the odds and
achieving the impossible.”
Source: We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
“Our stories are testaments to our strength, our determination, and our ability to rise above any challenge that comes our way.”
“Our stories are the tellers of us.”
Source: Little Bee: A Novel
“Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?”
Source: Pure
“Our Stories aren't for your entertainment', she said.
She wobbled slightly as the shelling continued on. However, she never faltered once. She was no longer that girl who feared the ocean, but a commander of this vessel.”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 4 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 4]
“Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to that deep, ecstatic center where we are most uniquely our selves, individual and unique, and yet are ourselves, joined together at the heart.”
“Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.”
“Our stories cannot become more diverse and inclusive if the characters inside them are reduced to stereotypes.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.”
“Our stories have already been written only we are not the author. We have no way of knowing what is coming or even how our final chapter will end. We handle our storylines the best way we know how as they present themselves. All we can do is try to leave our marks along the way, our legacy.”
“Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Our Stories Lost with the Stars
“When we gaze upon the heavens, we are gazing upon creation, the very roots of our existence, the only true reflection of ourselves.” - William C. Judge
“The Wonder of it All”
“Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”
“Our stories must be passed to our sons and daughters, for with but one generation, history and truth are lost forever.”
Source: Morrighan
“Our stories need to be told, and there is richness in our diversity because we are not monolithic; rather, it is the beauty of our differences that will bring a cross-pollination of great lessons to be learned that will strengthen not just ourselves but also the world around us.”
“Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.”
“Our story began with uncertainty, and with uncertainty, it ended—not with a bang, but a whisper.”
Source: We Are Everyone
“Our story begins at home, but it doesn’t have to end there.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Our story can be the runway that lifts us—or the excuse that keeps us grounded.”
“Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”
“Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.”
“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”
“Our story is not only about exile and oppression and suffering. It is the story of thriving, of triumph, and of great faith. It is the story of a people that laughs in the face of deepest despair, that stubbornly clings to life and to joy even in the face of horror and death. We take our pain and turn it into poetry. We take our misfortune and transform it into opportunity.”
Source: By Light of Hidden Candles