O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Outside the window the thin moon stood upright in a deep sky, like the paring of a finger-nail for magic, and against the sky the weather vane of the carrion crow with arrow in mouth pointed it's arrow to the south”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“Outside the window, the trees were dancing in their disagreeable manner, somehow looking closer than before. Like unholy pendulums.”
Source: My Annihilation
“Outside the window, the weather is beyond our control. The sun will rise and set every day, sometimes there’ll be rain, and at night the moon and stars light up the sky blanketed by the darkness, and when the night gives
way to dawn, it’ll be yet another day. There’s nothing we can do to change what’s outside, but we can choose the weather in our heart. Our feelings are ours to decide, and there’s always happiness within us. The weather in our heart is ours, and ours alone.”
Source: Marigold Mind Laundry
“Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind . . . I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.”
Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel
“Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person who has been around since the late 1970s. He has developed and changed remarkably, whilst remaining true to his vision. He has been a great help to me as well, without his knowing it.”
“Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It’s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more.”
“Outside there a lot of powerful stuff, starting from mind movies up to movies like drama, real life, horror, mysteries and many other. Music which makes your day interesting, quotes which change your thought, books which provoke and many other stuff... (So now you know what's everything about, Good Luck with the other Stuff!)”
“Outside, Vegas stretched out with thousands of glittering lights, as if the city waged war on the stars above.”
Source: Hypnotizing Beat
“Outside you actions don’t exist, outside you history doesn’t exist, outside you future doesn’t exist.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.”
Source: Rise
“Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.”
“Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all week, .. Rain would be a relief.”
“Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.”
Source: Big Driver
“Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there”
“Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”
Source: The Running Man
“Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.”
Source: The William Carlos Williams Reader
“Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.”
Source: True To Form
“Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.”
Source: The River King
“Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge.”
Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel
“Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."”
“Outsiders always look for a reason to explain why they are not inside. They never look in the mirror. Let's face it, the profession I'm in is a very simple and a very cruel one. There is no way that you can create a career for someone without talent and no way to stop a career of someone with talent.”
“Outsiders became keen to join an organization [European Community] that offered attractive bribes to the poor. Greece did so in 1981 and Spain and Portugal in 1986.” - written before 2003.”
Source: The New Penguin History of The World
“Outsiders can do very little harm to a Share, the real harm is done by ‘suspecting shareholders’ and the rest follows! If you are suspicious, just sell the damned share and move to the one you can feel confident & comfortable! Life becomes much easier for yourselves and the rest of shareholders. No!?”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?”
“Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.”
“Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.”
“Outsiders... projected their fear of race mixing onto the Latter-Day Saints almost from the beginning. Some Missouri residents... complained that the Saints had 'opened an asylum for rogues and vagabonds and free blacks,' while others were concerned that the Saints promoted black 'ascendancy over whites.'... Four days after Phelp's 'extra' appeared in print, a crowd of Jackson County residents stormed his printing office and destroyed all remaining copies of the extra as well as the original July issue of the Star. They scattered Phelp's type and the press itself and demolished his office and home. They seized Bishop Edward Partridge and Charles Allen and hauled them to the town square, where they tarred and feathered them... It marked the beginning of the Latter-Day Saint expulsion from Jackson County. Before the end of the year, some 1,200 Latter-Day Saints would be driven from their homes, charged, at least in part, with being too inclusive.”
Source: Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
“Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.”
“Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.”
“Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.”
“Outsmarting the market is one thing. Outgrowing the need to fight it is leadership.”
“Outsource your anxieties to God. This 'outsourcing' will help you in such a way that you will become only a witness to adverse situations, without becoming a part of the problem yourself.”
“Outsourcing allows you to delegate all those pesky but essential daily tasks and concentrate on core processes that would help your business grow.”
“Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.”
“Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.”
“Outsourcing company providing services to mid-market companies in payroll, benefits business improvement services, enabling organizations to optimize performance and position themselves for the future.”
“Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.”
“Outsourcing isn't the answer to everything. Lots of internet marketing pundits will tell you to outsource, outsource, outsource. Having a trusted team that knows each other and enjoys working together is good, too.”
“Outsourcing our thinking often means that others decide what we know or don't, what we believe and feel, how we live our lives, and what we have coming.”
“Outsourcing services should be fluid and flexible enough to accommodate the changing needs of clients from different industries.”
“Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the 90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.”
“Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.”
“Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.”
“Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.”
Source: Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations
“Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.”
“Outstanding Exponential Results, require extraordinary Leadership-team conversations, that raise consciousness and unleash fullest potentials”
“Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading”