O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.”
“Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.”
“Our whole world is entrenched in sin. There in the quiet of our hearts a woman is calling us, each one of us, back to her Son. Jesus is there for us in the Scriptures. How often do we ignore Him? We must shake off this indifference. Only the Faith and the wisdom of the Church can save us, but it requires men and women, warriors ready to risk their good names, even their very lives to stand up for the truth.”
“Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.”
“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.”
Source: On the Social Contract
“Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.”
Source: The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures
“Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.”
“Our willingness to be a better human-being should always be ignited by the fire of our good deeds”
Source: Attainable
“Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.”
Source: The Father Heart of God
“Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.”
“Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God.”
Source: Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
“Our willingness to look at the ways in which we diminish our true expression in the world is the key to peace and freedom.”
“Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.”
“Our willingness to repent shows our gratitude for God's gift and for the Savior's love and sacrifice on our behalf. Commandments and priesthood covenants provide a test of faith, obedience, and love for God and Jesus Christ, but even more importantly, they offer an opportunity to experience love from God and to receive a full measure of joy both in this life and in the life to come.”
“Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.”
“Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.”
“Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.”
“Our wills and fates do so contrary run.”
“Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.”
“Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.”
Source: Free Will
“Our wine cooled in the water
and I watched my sons, half-men
half-children, testing their part
in a world almost archaic
so precious by this time
that merely to step in pure water
or stare into clear air
is to feel a spasm of pain.”
Source: Diving Into the Wreck
“Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.”
“Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.”
“Our wings were clipped, our restrictions were made, our boundaries were tested but now we are free, aren’t we?
We look above in the sky at the birds and hope to be free. But the birds make their nests in the trees high above, to protect themselves from predators. Free birds must keep looking over their shoulders the same way all of us have to”
Source: Clipped Wings: Hear some stories of survival
“Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”
“Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.”
“Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.”
“Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority … they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.’”
Source: God, family, country: our three great loyalties
“Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.”
“Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.”
Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.”
“Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.”
“Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.”
“Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of life—quite the opposite. They are incredible because of the way they face the trials of life. Despite the challenges and tests life has to offer—from marriage or lack of marriage, children’s choices, poor health, lack of opportunities, and many other problems—they remain remarkably strong and immovable and true to the faith. Our sisters throughout the Church consistently “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.”
“Our women – our wives – are the heart of Calberna. Without them, Calbernan males could not function. We would die. Just as you would die without the heart that beats in your chest.”
Source: The Sea King
“Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.”
Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.”
“Our words and language shape our hopes and dreams for the future - and our dreams for the future shape how we act today”
Source: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
“Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.”
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins
“Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world”
“Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove
“Our words can build up or tear down; let us choose to be architects of hope, laying the foundations of faith in every conversation.”
“Our words can have power that we don't think we have in everyday life - anyone can make a difference.”
“Our words can lead us down a path of renewal and increased personal fulfillment.”
Source: The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss
“Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.”
“Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.”