O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music
“Out of ugly, make something beautiful.”
“Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.”
Source: War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
“Out of water, I am nothing.”
“Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.”
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“Out of what... a thousand?”
“Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.”
“Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people - people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of - and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will slip out of your hand, and that will be an act of awareness. And you will feel tremendously blissful that it happened; even if you are being shot your death will be a glory, a peace, an adventure, a journey into a new world.”
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
“Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.”
“Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.”
“Out on his flank, a soldier whipped up his crossbow, cocked it with a jerk on a leather thong, took aim and let fly. The iron-tipped arrow whistled through the air and found its mark, straight between the shoulder blades of the retreating spy. The man dropped like a stone. A short scream became a cough, and the cough a torrent of blood on the sand.”
Source: The Kappillan of Malta
“Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still.”
Source: The Secret History
“Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.”
“Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow.”
“Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.”
Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great
“Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .”
“Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.”
“Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues, workin' on our night moves.”
“OUT-Source.Expansion.Test.Underground.Passage SET UP: Fire Of Light, Sage Of Earth, Gift Of Winds, Water Of Xora, Sacred Globes, Staff Of Apocalypse, Quad Abstract, Square, Circle, Rectangle, Resistances.”
“Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.”
“Out there beyond this brief charmed circle, all around them, invading even our own minds, was something that disbelieved and destroyed and defeated. She knew it and recognized its power and yet she would never cease to deny it. In this moment of large weakness she suddenly knew large strength, a core buried deep within her that would refuse to be daunted by the outrageous blows or the niggling trifles human life was heir to.”
Source: The Tall Woman
“Out there, in no man's territory, there is no law as you know.
Therefore you should create your own laws and enforce them.
If not, prepare to be hunted or...subject to the laws of strangers.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.”
“Out there in the chrysanthemum light, the day was at its best. The sun was setting later and later, leaving behind a strange way of making the time fade away and nearly disappear, as though night truly wouldn’t come.
Helen looked to the side at Stuart. He seemed different in this lighting, both stronger and softer than usual. Like salt, the time of day made everything he was more rich and intense. His eyes met hers and he turned, his full body facing her. With a single step, he was standing closer to her than he ever had before, the space between them nearly as small as the space between heartbeats.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.”
“Out there in the wild, the lion is a VIP, and the rest are his entourage.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Out there is nothing but possibilities.”
“Out there, it was the beginning of the end.
In here, it was already over.
You walk. You don’t look back; there’s nothing behind you that can be fixed. Every step is a minute you owe.
Twenty of them you can name. The rest you will spend.”
“Out there may be monsters, my dear.
But in you still lives the dragon
you should always believe in.”
Source: Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
“Out there on the edge, the spinning of the Earth had slowed to give us the time we need to start finding each other again.”
Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“Out there on the rocks, I feel exceedingly happy.”
“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”
“Out there somewhere there is a love who will never dream of calling you too much. Who speaks, like you, in poetry and candlewax and stardust. Who runs outside on stormy nights to howl at the moon. Who collects bones and sings incantation and talks to the ancestors. And that lover, when you find him or her, will see you and know you – just as you are and just as you should be.
And they will say yes. Yes, you. I will go there with you. I have been waiting for this.”
“Out there, there they are—the things that concern you. What’s in another person’s cup is not your cup of tea.”
Source: Her Rock Star Mountain Man
“Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: "Yids, get out of Palestine."”
“Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.”
Source: Perseus Spur
“Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.”
“Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”
“Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.”
“Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Out with the toxic, in with the terrific! Delete toxic thoughts forever, no archive—let go of those energy vampires and soul-sucking leeches. Life's too short to waste on negativity and drama. Surround yourself with the sunshine of positive vibes and the laughter of genuine connections. It's a digital detox for the soul, clearing out the clutter and making room for the good stuff. So long, toxic thoughts—here's to a brighter, happier, and healthier you!”
“Out work everybody, but be in competition with nobody but yourself.”
“Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.”
Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.”
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!”
“Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.”
“Out, you tallow-face! You baggage!”