O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.”
Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches
“Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.”
“Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.”
“Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.”
Source: Poems by John B Tabb
“Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, "Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.”
“Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference.”
Source: Dynamics of Faith
“Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.”
“Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?”
“Out of the fierce torture emerges the deepest reflection as you realize aloneness can be so enlightening. After all, some of the
finest stories are born amid the darkest of dark.....”
“Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo”
“Out of the fog of mental illness came enlightenment.”
“Out of the formless the forms appear.”
“Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?”
Source: Poems
“Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.”
“out of the frying pan and into the fire”
“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”
Source: Nights at the circus
“Out of the frying pan, into the plague house.”
Source: The Devils
“Out of the frying pan, into the fire.”
Source: De Carne Christi Liber: Treatise on the Incarnation
“Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte,
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste,
No wonder is a lewed man to ruste;
And shame it is, if a prest take keep,
A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep.
Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive,
By his clennesse, how that his sheep sholde lyve.”
“Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].”
“Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.”
Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier
“Out of the hobbled spirit of attachment, and the insecure need of belonging, come the gross judgments against those who do not belong.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be.”
“Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.”
“Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.”
“Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.”
Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
“Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.”
“Out of the infinite possible souls, you and I were given the gift of life, and we live in the same time period. The odds of us meeting are infinity to one; and to me, that counts as a miracle.”
“Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.”
“Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.”
Source: Works
“Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall.”
Source: Live By The Team
“Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”
Source: Forbidden
“Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.”
“Out of the morass of darkness came a ray of hope. She lighted like a butterfly in a swarm of moths.”
Source: Crossbones
“Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.”
“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
“Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.”
Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“Out of the myriad events that take place during a typical day, we select information to remember based on its emotional intensity. During sleep, this information is both consolidated into long-term memory and integrated into existent memory, while the emotionality attached to the memory is assimilated and fades over time. It is as if a major purpose of emotion is to tag an event as something important for us to remember, and once this purpose is served, the emotion can attenuate.”
Source: A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy: Implementing Simple and Effective Dreamwork
“Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.”
Source: Plaintext
“Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. [...] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.”
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
Source: Invictus
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black is the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
“Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.”
Source: The Ghetto, and Other Poems
“Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.”
“Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.”
“Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.”
Source: Collected Works
“Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.”
“Out of the quasi-nothingness of the now somehow comes everything.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.”