O Quotes
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“Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.”
“Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.”
“Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for long run success - for sustainability.”
Source: Small Farms Are Real Farms: Sustaining People through Agriculture
“Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.”
“Of, course, Chinese economic developments forms the great background for the rise of research into British political economy of the eighteenth century. Chinese policymakers and academics are increasingly interested in economic growth and the nature of international competition and tensions between the different nations. Hume and Smith discussed these questions in the eighteenth century and were a source of guidance for Great Britain in that transformative period. China has been undergoing a massive transformation from a traditional society to a modern one, from an agricultural society to a commercial one, and needs a new kind of political economy and moral philosophy to underpin this. The Scottish thinkers, Hume, Smith and Ferguson and their contemporaries debated political and economic problems and also reflected on the most appropriate ethic for the emergence of commercial society. One of the most striking features of their advice wa that it did not lead to the sort of violent revolution often associated with the French Enlightenment philosophers. On the contrary, they managed to contribute to the development and progress of Great Britain without aligning themselves with revolutionary movements. It is this aspect of their thinking that makes them attractive to many in contemporary China.”
Source: The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Berry
“Of course clergymen and other paid teachers and moralists admonished us to be upright and unselfish, and for people with good incomes it was easy to condemn those living on the edge of poverty as inferior, impractical, shiftless, and lacking respect for the social code. It was easy to shout thief at the other fellow when you had no temptation to steal-I mean steal in a petty way. But stealing in a big way was often accepted as good business judgment.”
Source: Art Young: His Life and Times
“Of course climate change is real.”
“Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.”
“Of course college felt extreme," Coop said. "You had infinite freedom and almost no responsibility. Nothing was fixed - you had your whole life ahead of you, and it could go anywhere. You had best friends you spent every minute with, so you were never alone. And you were in love. Real love.”
Source: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
“Of course colonial governance can only return with the consent of the country in question. The nationalist leaders in developing countries are probably not eager to see this happen. But the people- given those decades of ‘anti-colonial disaster’- possibly are.”
“Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.”
“Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding
something personal.”
“Of course designers inspired me, but I was more inspired by everyday people. People that I see walking down the street.”
“Of course, doing things this way saves time, but cutting corners on one task leads us to cut corners on another and then another, leading to a weakening of the heart.”
Source: A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind
“Of course drugs were fun.”
“Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns; they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.”
“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
Source: Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face
“Of course each citizen should try to educate him or herself, but only after receiving some essential, basic blocks of knowledge. Formal education should always be free; from kindergarten to PhD. It is free in many European countries, and in several Latin American ones (including Cuba, Mexico and Argentina). China is returning to free education, as it is returning to universal health care. In countries like Chile, people are on the streets right now fighting for free education, and they are winning!”
“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”
“Of course, Emily, of course. I know. But here in Holland, we live first, work second. We truly appreciate life and make it our highest priority to enjoy it.”
Source: Projector for Sale
“Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.”
“Of course, every organ in your body matters. Except your feet and your hands. You can still live without them. They are part of you, but not the real YOU.”
“Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.”
“Of course, everyone
Forgets their very first kiss
But I still remember
The one that ruined
My lips.”
Source: Jennifer Bares All
“Of course, everyone has a touch of madness in them. In fact, there’s something frightening about a person who isn’t a little crazy.”
Source: The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
“Of course, everyone wants to be happy and successful, but not everyone wants to work hard and have patience.”
“Of course, everything is about context. No one who is attending your virtual meeting on being a software developer, or lawn mower repairman, or a big wave surfer at Nazaré, is likely to expect you to appear in a suit.
The point is to give some serious consideration to how people normally dress in your profession.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.”
“Of course, ‘facts’ aren’t the point: what the scientific process gives you is the least wrong interpretation based on the best available data at the time. It’s all subject to modification, although the scale of the necessary modifications tends to shrink over time as any given hypothesis is tested in more and more varied ways.”
Source: The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
“Of course false-rape allegations have happened. My friend Astra Taylor points out that the most dramatic examples in this country were when white men falsely accused Black men of assaulting white women. Which means that if you want to be indignant on the subject, you’ll need to summon up a more complicated picture of how power, blame, and mendacity actually work.
(“Feminism: The Men Arrive”)”
Source: The Mother of All Questions
“Of course fashion is definitely playing a part.”
“Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be ‘passive’ – inviting our gaze.”
“Of course, fingers are one thing. A cock is quite another.”
Source: Slave To Seamen: Part One
“Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what's reasonable also allows in other things.”
“Of course for a Colombian girl it was always impossible to even imagine becoming an international popstar, but my dream became reality.”
“Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.”
“Of course for professional traders on the stock exchange, money had always been imaginary - just as notional, just as easy come and easy go, as the points in a video game. Wage earners like Willing's mother thought money was real. Because the work was real, and the time was real, it seemed inconceivable that what the work and the time had converted into would be gossamer.”
Source: The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
“Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.”
“Of course freedom for Hyde proves another form of bondage for Jekyll, just as in Hogg's book Wringham's 'Election' results not in liberation, as he imagines, but slavery to Gil-martin. For Jekyll as for Wringham there is a continual development and deterioration, so that in the end he finds himself going to sleep as Jekyll and waking as Hyde, with no control over events. He is mortally afraid that 'the balance of my nature might be permanently overthrown, the power of voluntary change be forfeited, and the character of Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine.”
Source: The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction
“Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.”
“Of course genes are not directly visible to selection. Obviously they are selected by virtue of their phenotypic effects, and certainly they can only be said to have phenotypic effects in concert with hundreds of other genes. But it is the thesis of this book that we should not be trapped into assuming that those phenotypic effects are best regarded as being neatly wrapped up in discrete bodies (or other discrete vehicles). The doctrine of the extended phenotype is that the phenotypic effect of a gene (genetic replicator) is best seen as an effect upon the world at large, and only incidentally upon the individual organism—or any other vehicle—in which it happens to sit.”
Source: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.”
“Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.”
“Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.”
“Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.”
Source: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
“Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?”
“Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.”
Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“Of course God exists. But God is no more a man than you are a snowflake.”
Source: The Fish That Climbed a Tree
“Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.”
“Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.”
Source: The White Album