O Quotes
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“Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.”
Source: The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
“Our tears are what happens when it rains deep inside our hearts and we cannot hold the rain any longer.”
“Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.”
Source: Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
“Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.”
“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
Source: future shock
“Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.”
Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation
“Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.”
“Our technology forces us to live mythically”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.”
“Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.”
“Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.”
“Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.”
Source: Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!
“Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.”
“Our television program airs to a potential audience of over 3 billion people, in many places where the people living there may have never even heard of Jesus.”
“Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.”
“Our temporal residence on earth must be lived with all eagerness.”
“Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.”
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.”
“Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.”
“Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.”
Source: Sex God
“Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.”
“Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.”
“Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.”
“Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.”
Source: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
“Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others.”
Source: Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
“Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826
“Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.”
Source: Christian Mysticism: Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford
“Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.”
“Our testimonies, like . . . trees, must be built on a sure foundation, deeply rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ, so that when the winds and rains come into our lives, as they surely will, we will be strong enough to weather the storms that rage about us.”
“Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.”
“Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.”
“Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care and education, safer at home, positive themes. And respected abroad -- a foreign policy with alliances.”
“Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.”
“Our theology must become biography.”
Source: Holy Sweat
“Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.”
“Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'”
Source: Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth
“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.”
“Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.”
“Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.”
“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.”
Source: The Great Transformation
“Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.”
“Our thinking absolutely affects the physical body.”
“Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.”
“Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.”
“Our thinking is not a fixed entity, and therefore it makes no sense to try to change it.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths”
“Our thinking makes or breaks our life, we live as we think”
“Our thinking makes our life.”