O Quotes
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“Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.”
“Of course, he and I were close in some senses, but think about it; how close could we really have been? Yes, we relied on each other, but we also wanted to smash each other's face in. To erase each other's very existence. To thrust each other permanently out of sight.”
Source: Human Acts
“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.”
“Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them.”
Source: The Hacienda
“Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.”
Source: The Way We Live Now
“Of course, he has no human money. But the High King of Elfhame refuses to pay with glamoured leaves, as though he were some common peasant. He hands over glamoured gold instead and walks out with his purchases, feeling smug.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.”
Source: The Angry Tide
“Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Of course." He picked up the brown bag of candy on the table. "What's your . . ." He trailed off as he weighed the bag in his hands. "Didn't I give you three pounds of candy?"
She smiled impishly.
"You ate half the bag!"
"Was I supposed to save it?"
"I would have liked some!"
"You never told me that."
"Because I didn't expect you to consume all of it before breakfast!"
She snatched the bag from him and put it on the table. "Well, that just shows poor judgement on your part, doesn't it?”
Source: Throne of Glass
“Of course,” he says with a small smile, a rumble of thunder bringing his attention to the sky. When he looks back down at me, I feel about as stable as the billowing rain clouds overhead. For a brief moment I imagine hugging him.”
Source: Love and Other Words
“Of course he should be punished for doing so! I daresay he has not enough employment. One must remember that he has been used to work and should be made to do so now. It is not at all good for anyone to be perfectly idle.’
‘Very true, ma’am,’ agreed Mr Beaumaris meekly.
Miss Tallant was not deceived. She looked sharply up at him, and bit her lip, saying after a moment: ‘We are speaking of Jemmy!’
‘I hoped we were,’ confessed Mr Beaumaris.”
Source: Arabella
“Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Of course, he was absolutely correct, it was no concern of mine. So naturally I thought about it--excessively.”
Source: Silent in the Grave
“Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as a last resort.”
Source: The Invisible Hands - Part 1: Gambit
“Of course he was there, a removed audience
of my redemption songs from beyond the grave,
the way Kafka and his father continued to shadow-box,
long after they quit staring at each other
at the dinner table.”
Source: Failing Maths and My Other Crimes
“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?”
“Of course! Here's a quote inspired by the themes of your book:
"Breaking free from manipulation isn't just about escaping someone's control—it's about rediscovering your strength, your worth, and your power to choose your own path."
Let me know if you'd like me to craft something with a different tone or emphasis!”
“Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.”
Source: The City and the Pillar Revised: Including an Essay: Sex and the Law, and An Afterword
“Of course,’ Horton answered. ‘Of course I will stick.
I’ll stick by you small folks through thin and through thick!”
Source: Horton Hears a Who!
“Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way.
—Best Thing”
Source: Theories of Everything
“Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.”
“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.”
“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.”
“Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.”
Source: Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.”
Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“Of course I am not referring to those outburts of passions that drive us to do and say things we will later regret, that delude us into thinking we cannot life without a certain person, that set us quivering with anxiety at the mere possibility we might ever lose that person-a feeling that impoverishes rather than enriches us because we long to possess what we cannot, to hold on what we cannot.
No. I speak of a love that brings sight to the blind. Of a love stronger than fear. I speak of a love that breathes meaning into life, that defies the natural laws of deterioration, that causes us to flourish, that knows no bounds. I speak of the triumph of the human spirit over selfishness and death.”
Source: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
“Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.”
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
“Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?”
“Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not.”
“Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.”
“Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls”
“Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.”
“Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.”
“Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?”
“Of course I believe in hell. I have three brothers.”
Source: Unmanned
“Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.”
“Of course I believe that I am very approachable, I am friendly, I care about my family, I care about my community, people believe that I am a strong and determined leader.”
“Of course I believe that other world exists. If they didn't life wouldn't be interesting. It's like love: you can't see but it exists-simply because you believe it. It's just a matter of believing.”
“Of course I can appreciate the musicality of the pieces and sometimes the lyrics are generic enough to be listened to without reference, but I often feel cheated if I don't know what the hell is making this person burst out into song.”
“Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?”
Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
“Of course I can cook. I'm an adult. Feeding myself is part of the deal.”
Source: Undercover Bromance
“Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.”
Source: Christine Feehan Ghostwalkers Novels 6-9
“Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.”
“Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“Of course I can’t reach God. But He can reach me.”