O Quotes
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“Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.”
“Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.”
Source: Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent
“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!”
Source: Great Expectations
“Out of near disaster, came real progress.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“Out of necessity comes genius.”
“Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising that we can buy our way to a sustainable future, and I don't think that's the case.”
“Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.”
“Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.”
“Out of nowhere, one of the twins grabbed my cap while the other delivered a blow to my head. She slapped the taste right out of my mouth. I couldn’t even feel my tongue. I spun around to face my bullies. The twins had become triplets. I couldn’t remember ever trying to drink three glasses of anything and this wouldn’t be the day to try.”
Source: Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
“Out of nowhere she tells me that Oliver Stone - you know, the director - she's like, 'He has this huge Asian fetish, and I find it totally offensive.' And I'm like, 'Why, Kwan? That sounds awesome.' She's like, 'I'm offended because I'm Asian.' And I was just like, 'Well, I'm sorry, but I didn't even notice that. I thought you were just really tired.”
“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
“Out of nowhere, Valek appeared before me, yelling in my ear, shaking my shoulders. Stupidly, belatedly, I realized he was the drunk. Who else but Valek could win a fight against four large men when armed only with a beer mug?”
Source: Poison Study
“Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there.
Don't let them change me, I prayed silently.Let me keep my mind. Let me endure whatever there is to come.”
Source: Silver Shadows
“Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.”
“Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past,
given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.”
“Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.”
Source: People at work
“Out of our way mister, you best keep.”
“Out of pain, and pain, and more pain we feed this feverish plot, we are nourished by the mystery.”
Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions
“Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.”
“Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.”
“Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Out of regard for me, if for no other reason, he shouldn't have taken the innocence of a young woman under my protection. It's a matter of respect."
Kathleen hoisted herself more fully over him, staring down into his blue eyes. "This," she mocked gently, "from a man who seduced me in nearly every room, stairwell and hay-nook of Eversby Priory. Where was your regard for innocence then?"
His frown disappeared. "That was different."
"Why, may I ask?"
Devon flipped her over, reversing their positions neatly and surprising a giggle from her. "Because," he said huskily, "I wanted you so much..."
She writhed and laughed as he unfastened her nightgown.
"... and as lord of the manor," he continued, proceeding to strip her naked, "I thought it was time to exercise my droit de seigneur."
"As if I were some medieval peasant girl?" she asked, shoving him onto his back, and climbing over him.
Grabbing his marauding hands, she tried to pin him down with her entire weight.
A deep laugh escaped him. "Love, that won't work. You're no heavier than a butterfly." Clearly enjoying their play, he lay unresisting as she gripped his thick wrists more tightly. "A determined butterfly," he conceded. As he stared up at her, his smile faded, and his eyes darkened to intense blue. "I was a selfish bastard," he said softly. "I shouldn't have seduced you."
"I was willing," Kathleen pointed out, inwardly surprised by his remorse. He was changing, she thought, rapidly gaining maturity as he shouldered the responsibilities that had been forced on him so unexpectedly.
"I would do it differently now. Forgive me." He paused, frowning in self-reproach. "I wasn't raised to be honorable. It's damned difficult to learn."
Kathleen slid her hands over his until their fingers interlaced. "There's nothing to forgive, or regret."
Devon shook his head, not allowing her to absolve him. "Tell me how to atone."
She bent to brush her lips against his. "Love me," she whispered.
With great care, Devon rolled until she was caught beneath him. "Always," he said huskily, and possessed her mouth while his hands slid over her body.”
Source: Marrying Winterborne
“Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos.”
“Out of resistance comes strength.”
Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons
“Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.”
“Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.”
“Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.”
Source: The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
“Out of right thinking comes right practice. It is not true that it does not matter what a man believes. It is not true to say, as many say, that a man's beliefs do not matter, it is only his conduct which is of importance; no lasting right conduct grows out of wrong belief. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.”
“Out of routine comes inspiration.”
“Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.”
“Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.”
“Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.”
“Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.”
“Out of sight is out of mind.”
Source: Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems
“Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.”
“Out of sight, out of mind, I'm
told, I'm assured, so I hide away
your hands.
I stow away your smile, and
I put away our plans.
I bury all your boyish charms, and
I lock away your laugh.
I stash all your special names for me, and
I tuck away the last year and a half.
The trouble is, I never know
where I stored this or that.
I open a drawer, and there's
your voice, it's here and gone
so fast.
Out of sight, out of mind, out of
mind, out of mind, I'm out of my
out of my mind.
Living in a graveyard filled
with all you left behind.”
Source: The Wound Before the Scar
“out of sight, out of mind, right? That motto is just a
temporary fix—until you’re forced to come face to face with what you’ve been running from. That’s when
the mental walls you’ve built to hide behind come crashing down in one hard blow.”
Source: Stepbrother Dearest
“Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.”
“Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.”
“out of sight,out of mind”
Source: The odyssey
“Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.”
“Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.”
Source: Poems
“Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.”
Source: Euripides
“Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.”
Source: White Noise
“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built
Out of longing great wonders have been willed”
Source: Complete Lyrics 1978-2007
“Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.”
“Out of struggle very often comes victory.”