O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a ‘we must do something universe,’ it is a ‘we must be serious universe!’ Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, ‘waiting’ must be abolished!”
“Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.”
Source: Dexter in the Dark
“Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.”
“Our universities and museums are respected around the country.”
“Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony”
“Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.”
“Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.”
“Our University Is Not People Centric University, Our University Is Knowledge Centric University, University of Dr.PSJKumar”
“Our unspeakable losses can be captured through the silence built into the lyric fragment.”
Source: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.”
“Our urge to avoid eating something that makes us feel sick is often at the root of disordered eating, as we swerve away from whole categories of foods that we imagine would make us feel uneasy.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [...] From India to Spain, the brilliant civilisation of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilisation, but quite the contrary. [...] To us it seems that West-European civilisation is civilisation, but this is a narrow view.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.”
“Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.”
Source: Angels
“Our value as human beings has everything to do with whose we are and what He does through us.”
Source: A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime
“Our value does not diminish because of someone else's inability to see our worth.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“Our value is built into us, and nothing and no one can take it away.”
“Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Our value is the sum of our values.”
“Our value is without compliments until we are gone, until we become unreachable, until we are scarce.”
“Our value system impacts our actions and influences every decision we make. Simply put, who we are determines how we do everything.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.”
“Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.”
“Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.”
“Our values are like words of a language that would make no sense to a person who does not know that language, but looks perfectly meaningful to the one who does.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.”
“Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.”
“Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Our values have led us where we are in life right now. We can't excel beyond the power behind our values that we have embraced...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“Our values were under attacks, in Paris
Tell them:
We stand UNITED
We'll defend our values
We'll NOT be DIVIDED”
“Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.”
“Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.”
“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point
“Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.”
“Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Our various origin stories seek to express the relationship between human minds and what we might call nature’s mind, or what ancient people saw as the thoughts of a creator.”
Source: Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature
“Our vaults can leave us lonely, isolated from others, exacerbating the pain of invisibility. And that’s a tough way to go. The amount we hold there, hidden out of sight and guarded by instinctive feelings of fear or shame, can contribute to a larger sense that we don’t belong or don’t matter—that our truth will never comfortably fit with the reality of the world we’re living in. In keeping our vulnerabilities private, we never get the chance to know who else is out there, who else might understand or even be helped by whatever it is we’re holding back.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.”
“Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.”
“Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!”
Source: The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme
“Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.”
“Our very definition and understanding of the Comfort Zone is false—or at the very least, incomplete. True, lasting success is not attained outside our Comfort Zone, but rather inside it.”
Source: The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow
“Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.”
“Our very existence in this moment is a miracle.”
“Our very eyes
Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
“Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.”
Source: Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive