O Quotes
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“Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.”
Source: Notes from Underground
“Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?”
“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I often bite my tongue and attempt to put the fire out?”
“Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.”
“Of course I could never let you know anything about this. It would have been impossible. You would not have understood it. I hardly understood it myself. I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes— too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Of course, I couldn’t explain this vector calculus concept and so, slightly embarrassed in front of Rahul and the other Bengali students, I told Sanjit just that; he had cornered me, and honesty emerged as my only option. Simultaneous to my humiliating disclosure of the truth, Sanjit gradually inched toward where I was sitting. After hearing my reply, he slowly returned to his teacher stool and whiteboard, his back turned away from the class, the suspense building and his words impending, before turning around and breaking into speech, “Don’t trust your interior monologue. If you are asked something and you know it, then express or demonstrate it. Don’t just nod or say yes because then you are lying to yourself. Any ass can say yes, but not all asses can express it.” I modified my first impression: Sanjit was full of explicit aphorisms. Humbled, those words encouragingly rang between my ears for quite some time.”
Source: The Local School
“Of course I'd like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can't imagine what would happen if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don't really know what life is all about. I don't know how it works.”
Source: Birthday Girl
“Of course I'd love to protect my children from pain, but life happens instead. And as it comes along, so does mercy and- thank God- grace.”
Source: Family Squeeze: Tales of Hope and Hilarity for a Sandwiched Generation
“Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.”
“Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.”
Source: Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries
“Of course, I did not realize it at the time, but it was to be nothing like a year before I came home again. I did not know when I would see Brisbane again, but I knew that I would. Someday.
And indeed I did. That is when we found the body in the chapel. But that is a tale for another time.”
Source: Silent in the Grave
“Of course, I didn't know how I felt about my first kiss coming from one of the undead, but hey, beggars can't be choosers, and let me tell you something, Jesse was way cuter than any live guy I'd met lately.”
Source: Shadowland
“Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].”
“Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.”
“Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday and would I have got married during the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.”
“Of course I do. I love you touching me, Ana. I'm like a starving man at a banquet when it comes to your touch.”
Source: Fifty Shades Freed
“Of course I do. I’ve seen you upstairs every day, checking out book after book. You stay here reading long after every other student has gone home. If there’s one thing I know, it’s that someone who loves reading as much as you do can never be stopped. No matter where you go, you’ll have whole worlds in your head. No matter how hard life gets, you’ll have whole people’s lives worth of experience tucked away inside you. No matter how hard the world tries to silence you, there are millions and millions of words just waiting to burst from you.”
Source: Burn Before Reading
“Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!”
Source: Sons of Liberty
“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.”
Source: H.M.S. Surprise
“Of course I do not waste my precious dreams
on labor.”
“Of course I do,' said the Roly-Poly Bird. 'It's no good going to a country and not knowing the language.”
Source: The Twits
“Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.”
“of course, i don´t believe in god; Dr Kellet said. but i believe in heaven. one has to.”
Source: Life After Life
“Of course, I don’t fit in. How dare you think I’m like everyone else? I was born to stand out.”
“Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”
Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“Of course I don’t want to remember, for that gives me permission to repeat the very same things I know I shouldn’t have done in the first place.”
“Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.”
“Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know one of the things President Barack Obama was struck by was how much time he spent on cyber-security as president. And one of the things he said was that, in the years ahead, the next president will be spending even more time. And cyber-security isn't a thing that goes away after this election. It's a constant flow.”
“Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.”
“Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.”
“Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].”
“Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.”
“Of course I fear the journey. For if I didn’t, I’d be left with the horribly disappointing sense that it was never big enough. And if there’s something I should fear, that would be it.”
“Of course I fear the past, and for good reason. The Past, unlike everything else in our experience, has already proven it can happen.”
Source: Forever Jack: Thief of Heaven
“Of course I get hurt.”
“Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.”
“Of course I had a handkerchief. It lay, clean as a whistle, in my pocket where it had been for a week. For I had the knack of extracting from my nostrils, with the nail of my forefinger, the snuffling substances that impeded my breathing, and the use of a handkerchief seemed to me a piece of parental superstition.”
Source: My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood
“Of course I had a piece of luck I couldn't have imagine for myself in a million years: I got an agent. That sped up the process. I'd say it's a good idea, getting an agent.”
“Of course, I had seen him around the neighborhood, dressed head to toe in his odd, androgynous fashion, his lithe figure clad in his customary white, his gentle face painted as fair as a flower in the afternoon sun. He seemed hopelessly out of place in the cement jungle of New York City; it was as if he had stepped through time itself and ended up here by accident--a white lily in the concrete, beauty and innocence among the ruins of decadance.”
“Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.”
“Of course I have a name. All the stars do.”
Source: How a Star Falls
“Of course I have a personal life.”
“Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.”
“Of course I have bad hair days; I’m human.”
“Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.”
“Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.”
“Of course. I have made good friends in all the Clans. I've seen kits born and watched elders leave on their final journey to Silverpelt. I've made the long journey to the Clans' new home. Believe me, I wouldn't change a single day. I know it is not in your power to give me longer with my Clan. But I can't help wanting more.”
Source: Twilight
“Of course I have my head in the clouds, for without that kind of perspective there’s no reason to have your feet on the ground.”
“Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?”
Source: Volumes 5 and 6 - Blood Beast/Demon Apocalypse (The Demonata)