O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Out of frustration comes determination. Channel your frustration into finding solutions, solving problems, and making progress.”
“Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.”
“Out of frustrations, out of desperation, out of disappointments, out of mediocrity. out of idleness,out of limited insight, out of difficulties, out of insatiability, out of poverty, out of pain and the vicissitudes of life , so many people shall come to a conclusion that nothing is worth living for; not even what is solemn and sacred but, some shall always turn the woes of life into great land marks and indelible footprints worth emulating”
“Out of Gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time.”
“Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.”
“out of great Russia came three
dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
for: Bread, Peace, Land.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Out of habit and exhaustion, Iria’s
surprise did not show on her face. He had been worried about her. She didn’t even need the barest scraps of her
returning magic to know it. He’d been worried about her, and that was new, and it tugged at her. “Okay,” was her whole response, and she wondered if she would have cried had she had the energy for it.”
Source: The Color Plague
“Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of hate. Go to the preachers and they will say, "Try to love." They are talking nonsense because how can a person who is full of hate try to love? If he tries to love, this love will come out of hatred; it will be poisoned already, poisoned from the very source. And this is what the misery of all preachers is.”
“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley
“Out of his fear suns rise, out of his fear, universes rise and fall, out of his fear death continue his work….
He is good to the good, he is bad to the bad
He is a terror to the ignorant
He is pure love to the knower, to the devotee…
He is the one and only, omnipresent.
People speak of him by different names.”
“Out of his fear suns rise, out of his fear, universes rise and fall, out of his fear death continue his work….
He is good to the good, he is bad to the bad
He is a terror to the ignorant
He is pure love to the knower, to the devotee…
He is the one and only.
People speak of him by different names.”
“Out of His fulness we receive, and grace for grace, — like wave upon wave.”
“Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction his earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own species.”
Source: Scaramouche
“Out of humility I label not myself or others. All I can say is this; God is my Father. Jesus is my Savior. And the Holy Spirit dwells in me.”
“Out of infinite desires rise
finite deeds like weak fountains
that fall back in early trembling arcs.
But those, which otherwise in us
keep hidden, our happy strengths —
they come forth in these dancing tears.
(Aus unendlichen Sehnsüchten steigen
endliche Taten wie schwache Fontänen,
die sich zeitig und zitternd neigen.
Aber, die sich uns sonst verschweigen,
unsere fröhlichen kräfte — zeigen
sich in diesen tanzenden Tränen.)”
Source: The Book of Images
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.”
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”
Source: The World Crisis, 1911-1918
“Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.”
“Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.”
“Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation”
“Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.”
Source: A Hero of Our Time
“Out of limitations, new forms emerge”
“Out of love and desire to protect our children's self-esteem, we have bulldozed every uncomfortable bump and obstacle out of the way, clearing the manicured path we hoped would lead to success and happiness. Unfortunately, in doing so we have deprived our children of the most important lessons of childhood. The setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations, and failures we have shoved out of our children's way are the very experiences that teach them how to be resourceful, persistent, innovative and resilient citizens of this world.”
Source: The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
“Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.”
Source: Nature, and Other Addresses
“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”
“out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.”
Source: Bel-Ami
“Out of love you can speak with straight fury.”
“Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.”
“Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.”
Source: The Poems, 1951-1967
“Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.”
“Out of Mahat comes universal egoism.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.”
Source: Science: the glorious entertainment
“Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
[Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]”
“Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.”
“Out of many shared years. One life.”
Source: Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's
“Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
[Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]”
“Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.”
Source: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
“Out of many workers at the Desoto Solar Farm, there were just a few that were telling the truth about the dangers it contained.”
“Out of mind as soon as out of sight.”
“Out of mind is left behind”
Source: Corporate Invisible Selling Behavioural Economics & More
“Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.”
Source: Into the Dark, Vol. 1
“Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.”
“Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.”
Source: The Works...
“Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards.
Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.”
“Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.”
“Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.”
“Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
“Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.”
“Out of my greatest dispair, was to come my greatest gift.”