O Quotes
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“Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“Out of all those hundreds of billions, don't you think there'll be people who are just like you?'
'What are you talking about now? Reincarnation?'
'No. Statistics. There can be no 'reincarnation' - there are no souls to be reborn. But eventually - by pure chance - someone will come along who'll embody everything that defines you.”
Source: Axiomatic
“Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.”
“Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.”
“Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.”
Source: Mindfulness
“Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.”
“Out of any two thoughts I have, one is devoted to death.
Our days an uncertainty, a chaos and shapeless,
all that our lives are
blurs down, like a landscape reflected in water.”
“Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.”
“Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.”
“Out of Bounds Introspect
Digging their graves lifting hands as if they been to the cross, they'll find a way To rid the world of truth till the End of days serpents of darkness acting as light crawling stately among the sheep reducing truth into ashes frozen icon of truth now a distant reminder as mankind has forgotten the gateway of truth in the self-consuming womb of sin in what was once the church”
“Out of Bull Run would come an effort so prodigious that simply to make it would change America forever. In the dust and smoke along the Warrenton Road an era had come to an end.”
Source: The Coming Fury
“Out of calmness comes clarity.”
“Out of chaos comes order. And order is supplied by the ego with the help of dopamine suppression in the context of our spiffy new operating system. When order is lost, the chaos of entropy -which lurks behind this process, seeking disorganization and lower energy states - again reigns. All of this goes along with dopamine de-suppression as the fulcrum of organized thinking painfully reverses.”
Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“Out of chaos comes order. Out of a bad situation, something good things happens. After rain comes the sunshine and rainbows. If you find a single weak string; even that has hope. Hold onto it with all your strength because in life, miracles happen every day, to ordinary people like you and me. Also, there's no age limit to this gift of life as long as we keep alive the hope that lives within us. Look what happened to me. I went for a job and ended up with a husband. Your life can change in an instant, at any time, in any place.”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
Source: The Sayings of Lord Byron
“Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.”
“Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.”
“Out of complexity, find simplicity!”
“Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.”
“Out of curiosity, when do I grow up and become a fullfledged
man with a penis?”
“When words like ‘hump day’ don’t make you giggle like a
twelve-year-old,” he retorted, blowing smoke my way.
“Wow, that long?”
Source: Shattered Glass
“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Out of darkness is born the light.”
“Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishounorable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.”
“Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.”
“Out of difference can come the reinforcement of two important values. One is tolerance and the other is awareness that people who disagree over the things they hold dear really can live together in love and respect.”
Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
“Out of discomfort comes greatness.”
“Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.”
“Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)”
“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“Out of Eloraton, he looked different. His hair wasn't as bright, and his eyes weren't as green, and a few fine wrinkles had appeared on his forehead and around his eyes, and I loved every one of them. He wasn't a romance hero, but he was mine.”
Source: A Novel Love Story
“Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.”
“Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.”
“Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.”
“Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.”
Source: Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska
“Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just 27 percent of poor families with children participate. There are more avid postage stamp collectors in the United States than welfare recipients.”
Source: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
“Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back.”
“Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.”
“Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'”
“Out of failure came success!”
“Out of fear of what might happen, Most people lie or spread misinformation as a defense mechanism. Not knowing that their lies are the ones that will bring into existence or reality what they feared in the first place. Their lies manifest or create what they feared and what would have never happened or existed to happen.”
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.”
“Out of fear, you can worship, but out of fear, you cannot love.”
Source: The Religion of God (Divine Love): Untold Mysteries and Secrets of God
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.”
Source: Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France
“Out of four police officers that were assigned to my 911 call, two had been involved with killing people.”
“Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."”