O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.”
“Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.”
“Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.”
“OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'”
“Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.”
“Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.”
“Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.”
“Outback birds need regular water, and many of these are thriving. Those doing better than ever include zebra finches, wood ducks, Bourke's parrots and possibly emus. On the other hand many insect-eaters are doing badly, because grazing stock destroy the plants on which insects breed. Seed-eaters themselves suffer when grasses are grazed too low to set seed. Dams create plenty of losers as well as winners, and that's something to keep in mind.”
Source: Radio Volume 2
“Outbreak or no outbreak, we’re being overrun by crazies.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”
“Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“Outcast or indoor or outdoor, dead is going to follow you up everywhere.”
“Outcasts always mourn.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.”
Source: Fighting For Redemption
“Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.”
Source: George Will vs. Nick Hornby: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
“Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.”
“OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!”
Source: How to Be a Pirate
“Outcome is not vital! All what matters is your effort and devotion towards it...!!”
“OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.”
“Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors.”
“Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.”
Source: Selections from the Hesperides and Works of Robert Herrick
“Outdoor sunlight avoidance for several months is recommended after receiving abnormally high radiation exposures.”
“Outdoors; everything one might dream. The fairy-gray clouded sky and the fairy-green misted wood. Her tall horse shying at a sparkling brook. All dreams.”
Source: The Heavens
“Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport”
“Outdoors next day, I was dizzy from a sense
Of being ejected with some violence
From vigil in a white and distant spot
Where I was numb, into this garden plot
Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain.”
“Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“Outdream yourself, then do an overtime!”
“Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.”
“Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.”
“Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.”
“Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.”
“Outer beauty is transient, but the inner beauty of a kind heart gets brighter with time. Be kind and get prettier forever.”
“Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.”
“Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.”
“Outer eyes are the inner eyes’ reflection,
For outer eyes are under their direction....”
Source: Masnawi
“Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.”
“Outer happiness has Diminishing Marginal Utility; the more it grows, the satisfaction decreases. Resort to inner happiness.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Outer order contributes to inner calm.”
“Outer peace can only be manifested through inner peace for what goes on within us will manifest outwardly. It's important to take some time each day to go within to befriend our inner self---Sasha Samy”
Source: Shadow To Light: Transformational Journeys From Abuse & Betrayal To Empowerment
“Outer peace is the reflection of inner beauty, harmony, love, and tranquility.”
“Outer pleasure and pain is under the control of ‘Scientific circumstantial evidences’ and to have the inner peace [inner pleasure] is the result of one’s Self-effort (purusharth).”
Source: Whatever Has Happened is Justice
“Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.”
“Outer world is just the mirror image of your inner world.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Outfits don't define your character, your behavior does. Great achievements are born, not from fancy suits, but from great minds. And great minds do not need suits to feel and look important. Only the shallow look at outfits, but the wise knows to look beyond. Look at the person beyond the outfit.”
“Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.”
“Outgroups mocking the ingroup is a weapon of the weak, lessening the sting of subordination. But when an ingroup mocks an outgroup, it solidifies negative stereotypes and reifies the hierarchy.”