O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.”
“Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.”
“Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.”
“Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.”
“Owning a small business is like getting married. You're in it for the long haul, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. And like marriage, there's a learning curve. You learn it's best to keep your mouth shut more often than not.”
Source: Adventures in Small Business: The surprising humor and realities in owning and running a small retail store.
“Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.”
“Owning a weapon gives you a feeling like you're a weapon.”
“owning capital is not a productive activity.”
Source: Essay on Marxian Economics
“Owning is owing, having is hoarding.”
Source: Always coming home
“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”
“Owning less is better than organizing more.”
Source: Clutterfree with Kids
“Owning one Bitcoin isn’t a flex. It’s a financial plan with a built-in punchline.”
“Owning our past allows us to own our future.”
“Owning our power means claiming the credibility and uniqueness of our own humanity.”
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
“Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.”
Source: What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World
“Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.”
Source: Beating the Street
“Owning the art of being on your own is not loneliness, but the freedom to create a life that truly reflects you.”
“Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.”
“Owning the sound--Wow!--that is what brings joy to every step. That is what causes people to wake up every morning excited about their day. That is what leaves them energized rather than exhausted like before. There is a sound. And as your coach, I help you to go from cosigning on everybody else’s sound to owning your own sound.”
“Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.”
“Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Owning two thirds of the personal property of the country, evading payment of taxes
wherever possible, the corporations throw almost the whole burden up on the land, upon the little homes, and the personal property of the farms”
“Owning up your story may seem so achy...but not as achy as spending your whole life running from your truth....disguised in the shadows of dark...
To be on the edge of vulnerability might seem insecure...but not as insecure as giving up on faith, trust and love...for it is only at the edge of confession that another world awaits you, a world of love and belonging, the feelings that make us whole. Only when you are courageous enough to tread through the dark, you awaken to the undying power of light.....”
“Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.”
“Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin. Growing up was tricky for me, it was so hard to shop with all of my friends and not being able to fit into the tiny clothes they were wearing.”
“Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.”
Source: Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges
“Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Owładnął nią przesądny strach, nasłuchiwała kilka chwil w trwożnym oczekiwaniu, a potem spróbowała zebrać myśli i odwołać się do rozsądku, ale rozsądek ludzki nie może objąć swoimi prawami spraw zagubionych w mrokach wyobraźni, tak samo jak oko nie zdoła ustalić kształtu przedmiotów zaledwie przebłyskujących przez mrok nocy.”
Source: The Mysteries of Udolpho
“Ox, I swear to god, if you’ve ruined a normal life for outside of this, I will punch you in the spleen.”
Chris said, “She’ll do it too. Trust me. When she was seven, I accidentally --ow, fine, it was on purpose, stop hitting me for fucks sake--left one of her barbies on the heating vent. It melted its face and looked...well, it looked just awesome. She didn’t think so. I still have a scar on my elbow from where she attacked me with her fingernails.”
Source: Wolfsong
“Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.”
“Oxana had never felt the slightest need to be liked, but it gave her profound satisfaction to be desired.”
Source: Codename Villanelle
“Oxford has been called many names, from 'the city of beautiful nonsense' to 'an organized waste of time”
Source: The Last Enemy: The Centenary Collection
“Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“Oxford is beautiful; its beauty is its plumage, its method of procreation. The beauty of the dream of Oxford, of spires and quiet learning, of the life of the mind, of effortless superiority, all these had beguiled me.”
Source: The Lessons
“Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”
Source: Howard's End
“Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.”
Source: Castle Richmond
“Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”
“Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.”
“Oxford smiled and Kit still knew him well enough to read the pleasure of a chess player who has successfully anticipated his opponent.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Oxford was always one to speak in riddles, enjoying teasing others with what he knew and what they didn’t, and Kit had no stomach for it now.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.”
“Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Oxidation, I never tire of reminding myself, is what happens when oxygen attacks.”
Source: A Red Herring Without Mustard
“Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.”
“Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.”
“Oxygen administration should be done using a pulse oximeter and never administered above 96% SpO2 and not started for saturation above 90% to 93% SpO2. Medical oxygen administration is patient dependent and is a prescription ‘RX-Only’ treatment in the USA.”
Source: Summit Brain
“Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers”