O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.”
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
“Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.”
“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
Source: Collected Works
“Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.”
“Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)”
Source: Gold Miners & Guttersnipes: Tales of California
“Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.”
“Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”
“Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.”
Source: Keeping a Rendezvous
“Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.”
Source: 20 hrs. 40 min
“Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.”
“Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.”
Source: Mystery and Manners
“Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
“Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.”
Source: Talking woman
“Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.”
“Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”
Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures
“Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.”
“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.”
“Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.”
Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora
“Ours is the responsibility to keep our light bright for others to see and follow.”
“Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.”
“Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.”
“Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.”
“Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?”
Source: The Letters of Liam O'Flaherty
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.”
Source: Controversial Essays
“ours must be
a politic of revolution
freedom can't exist
until the most disadvantaged are free”
Source: Home Body
“Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.”
“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”
“Ours, said Brother Wolf. She is perfect, our soul mate, our anchor, the reason we were created. So that we could be hers.”
Source: Burn Bright
“Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.”
“Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.”
“Ours was a love story, the kind that’s not supposed to happen to black girls anymore. This was vintage romance made scarce after Dr. King, along with Negro-owned dress shops, drugstores, and cafeterias.”
Source: An American Marriage
“Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.”
“Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.”
“Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.”
“Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.”
Source: House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City
“Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty.”
“Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled.”
“Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.”
Source: The Spiral House
“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.”
“Ours was the kind of friendship that makes sense as a kid but not so much now that we're older. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.”
“Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.”
Source: Table-talk
“Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author
“Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.”
Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series
“Ousaria escapulir do domingo para o sábado? Efervesço evanescente.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the chorus, and little Iskierka began to scrabble at his neck, demanding, "What are they saying? What does it mean?"
"We are flying home," Temeraire said, translating. "We are all flying home.”
Source: Black Powder War
“Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.”
“Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.”
Source: West-running Brook
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.”