O Quotes
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“Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.”
“Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests.”
“Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.”
“Outside, after grieving for days,
I'm thinking of how we make stories,
pluck them like beetles out of the air”
“Outside, again?” She teased him.
“You know I love it best when you’re wearing nothing but the stars.”
Blake wrapped her in his arms and reclined on the grass. She pat his chest gently, loving the tap back from his heart and his white smile. He looked amazing cloaked in stars, too.”
Source: Saving Poughkeepsie
“Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!”
“Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.”
“Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!”
“Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
Source: Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
“Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.”
“Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.”
Source: Secrets to Spiritual Power: From the Writings of Watchman Nee
“Outside, even the sun god, dressed in this life
as a lizard, abruptly rises
on stiff legs and descends blasé toward the shadows.”
Source: The Ruined Motel: Poems
“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.”
Source: 1984
“Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”
“Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.”
“Outside from with my older brother - and this would have stopped about age 12 - I haven't been in a physical fight in my life. We used to punch each other, but that was little kid punching. You're too scared to hit anybody really.”
“Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.”
Source: Wall to Wall
“Outside her breath rises in a fine mist and the snow keeps falling, like a ceaseless repetition of the same infinitesimally small mistake.”
Source: Normal People
“Outside, Her Ladyship coaxed her dog back toward the house, lifting both dog and cart up the few steps to her door. Gabe turned away from the window, rubbing his temples.
"The situation is untenable, and that makes the house unsellable. No one wants to live next to a barnyard. I've tried reasoning with her, but when it comes to those animals, she's surprisingly tenacious."
Tenacious, indeed. And sufficiently reckless to trespass in a house after midnight and recover a parrot from a near-naked stranger's shoulder.
However, even that degree of tenacity had poor odds against sheer ruthlessness. Lady Penelope Campion had a softness for animals.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside, it says. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.”
“Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.”
Source: Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science
“Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
“Outside-in IT performance perspectives and outcome-based measurement practices are important to improve IT maturity and focus on the performance of the entire organization.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”
Source: The Lacuna
“Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended”
“Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."”
“Outside influences can only make me happiER or happiEST but I, alone control my HAPPINESS!”
“Outside influences cannot bring the peace you crave; you must find peace from within.”
“Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.”
“Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
“Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.”
Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964
“Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.”
Source: Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...
“Outside, it is so quiet.
It is the end of the last November,
and everything is turning so slowly
that time begins to run backward;
some words fail
in their attempt to breathe.
Things break easily
when time finally comes to a stop;
all the spaces in between,
inside this grey glass,
thawing thoughts distort —
the view grows faint at night.”
“Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress.”
“Outside, life in Manhattan continued, oblivious, fast-moving, ignoring the detritus that piled up in the gutter.”
Source: Still Me
“Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.”
“Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet”
“Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.”
“Outside my bike, never has anything important in my life been just mine."
My body stilled, so did my heart, and my eyes locked with his.
He started moving again, slowly, deeply and he kept talking. "Always castoffs, leftovers, used, sometimes even food from the dumpsters."
My heart started beating again, only to trip over itself; my breath came fast, not only from what was happening to my body but what he was saying.
"Vance-"
His lips came to mine, his hands moved out of my hair and went to the side of my face and he stared in my eyes, pressing deep inside.
"Mine," he muttered, his deep voice hoarse, that fierce undercurrent there.
His tone caused a shiver to run through me, straight through to my soul.
Then he kissed me.”
Source: Rock Chick Renegade
“Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.”
Source: Altona ; Men without shadows ; The flies
“Outside, not only over our pit but above all far away from it, there was life. You could not think too much about it, but I liked to imagine it so as not to die of forgetfulness. Imagine, and not remember. Life, the real one, not that dirty rag blowing across the ground, no, life in its exquisite beauty. I mean in its simplicity, its marvelous banality: a child smiling after tears; eyes blinking in too bright light; a woman trying on a dress; a man asleep on the grass. A horse galloping across a plain. A man wearing many-colored wings attempting to fly. A tree bending to shade a woman sitting on a stone. The sun drifts off, and you even see a rainbow. Life: it's being able to raise your arm, rub the back of your neck, stretch for the pure pleasure of it, get up and stroll aimlessly, watch people go by, stop, read a newspaper - or simply stay sitting at your window because you have nothing to do and it's nice to do nothing.”
Source: تلك العتمة الباهرة
“Outside november night gathers
With a harmony of autumn leaves
Blown down a wind.
Quietly by the fire Taliesin
Humming from within his closing hood
Places the seeing child on to a chair.
And the glowing head is clothed
In a vestment with bright
Colours spreading.
Together two voices rise
Until at the end of breath one soars
And one falls away......echoing.
- Circle of Gold”
Source: Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin
“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.”
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
“Outside of a Grand Slam, I don't think there's a tournament in the world that has this many top players representing their countries. It's really remarkable that we have this many No. 1's. And with so many countries being represented, it's going to give the fans from Las Vegas who are from those countries a chance to come out and root for their countrymen.”
“Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.”
“Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.”
“Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally American - the idea that everybody's equal, that the rights of women and men should be the same, that there should be no discrimination on religious or sexual orientation, that democracy and rule of law and due process are the ways in which society should govern themselves and minorities should be cared for.”