O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.”
“Over and over, we begin again.”
Source: Kitchen
“Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.”
Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
“Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.”
Source: Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan
“Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.”
Source: Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid
“Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Over Anversoise en ABIR valt nog een boekje open te doen. Leopold II zat in die maatschappijen mee aan de kassa, maar de Antwerpse zakenmilieus lieten er dingen gebeuren die Leopold II choqueerden. Anversoise-directeur Louis Liebrechts werd door een Belgische magistraat een ‘vulgaire moordenaar’ genoemd ‘die met zijn pistool de chefs afknalde van dorpen die niet voldoende rubber opbrachten’. Anversoise-topman Alexandre de Browne de Tiège werd daarom door Leopold II de mantel uitgeveegd. Voor mij staat het buiten kijf dat de toenmalige Belgische zakenwereld mee verantwoording droeg. Wat er in Congo gebeurde, overstijgt de figuur van Leopold II alleen. Toch was het de fout van de koning dat hij naast de exploitatie ook de politionele ordehandhaving aan ze overliet, een abdicatie van de staat.”
Source: Leopold II: Het hele verhaal
“Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.”
Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.”
“Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly.”
“Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.”
“Over-commitment is a downward spiral that is best avoided by saying no.”
Source: Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love
“Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.”
Source: Savage Season
“Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.”
“Over Descartian vortices you hover.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Over deze dingen zal ik een roman schrijven, zeshonderd pagina's dik, waar ik vijf jaar over zal doen. Voor de laatste lezer die dan nog over is.”
Source: Dit is mijn moeder
“Over dinner, we mostly talk about Henry being gone a year. I tell her what someone told me in Italy: that grief is fruitful because it gives perspective and a sense of scale. Winnie says that's bollocks. Says that loss begets fear of loss. Says she likes the spare ribs though.”
Source: The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
“Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.”
“Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.”
“Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.”
Source: Hymn of the Universe
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
“Over every person's life, I have found, Satan masturbates and out from the dispersion of this black cloud, at some point follows a demon who waits to wound.”
Source: Adrift in Acheron
“Over everything, I choose you”
Source: Heartless
“Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.”
“Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.”
“Over four million people left Ukraine when Russia invaded the country.”
“Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.”
“Over good times, if I consider a dog to be less worthy of life than me, then all I have left to say is woof.
Separate heart from hierarchy.”
“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
“Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.”
“Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.”
“Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It’s a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.”
“Over half of men aged over eighty-five who have been in hospital overnight will die within twelve months… A move into care is a warning flag too; only around half of those who move into a care home will still be alive a year later… because the things that cause a move into care are also events that suggest that someone’s life may be nearing its end. Pg255”
Source: The Book About Getting Older
“Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.”
“Over half of the internet is a dump for useless information.”
“Over half of the world's refugees, including 75 percent of Syrians, live in urban areas in neighbouring countries. But, in cities, assistance is limited and the formal right to work is usually restricted.”
Source: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
“Over half the Earth's people live in cities, and they hardly ever see, feel or hear the natural world. Therefore our first duty should be to convince them that the real world is the living Earth and that they and their city lives are part of it and wholly dependent on it for their existence.”
Source: We Belong to Gaia
“Over half the people in the United States wear corrective lenses, and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly - if they would only experiment with changing their ideas about vision.”
Source: Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight
“Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?”
Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight
“Over her years of caring for unwanted animals, Lady Penelope Campion had learned a few things.
Dogs barked; rabbits hopped.
Hedgehogs curled up into pincushions.
Cats plopped in the middle of the drawing room carpet and licked themselves in indelicate places.
Confused parrots flew out open windows and settled on ledges just out of reach. And Penny leaned over window sashes in her nightdress to rescue them- even if it meant risking her own neck.
She couldn't change her nature, any more than the lost, lonely, wounded, and abandoned creatures filling her house could change theirs.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Over hill and under hill”
Source: The Hobbit
“Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own--and their children's--physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for fearlessly following his ethical arguments wherever they lead.”
“Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.”
“Over his years of helping runaways to find the Smoke, David had encountered wild animals, forest fires, and bio-engineered poisonous plants. But nothing was more dangerous than a city afraid of change.”
Source: Uglies
“Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.”
“Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing.”
“Over In Away"
Bajan memories”
Source: Over In Away: A Collection of Stories and Poems