O Quotes
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“Of course I wondered if I was dreaming, but it seemed so real.”
Source: Abby in Wonderland
“Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?”
“Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.”
“Of course, I would live. I had to.”
Source: Time Takes
“Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.”
“Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.”
“OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.”
“Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.”
“Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.”
“Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.”
“Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.”
“Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.”
“Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.”
“Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse.
Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss.”
“Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.”
“Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.”
“Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!”
“Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!”
“Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.”
“Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.”
“Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.”
“Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me”
“Of course I'm totally biased, but I think my mom is an amazing educator. She continues to work tirelessly for the kids in her classes, year after year - despite the innumerable obstacles she faces. She is a huge inspiration to me.”
“Of course I'm troubled by huge consumer debt levels - we've pushed consumer credit very hard in the US. Eventually, if it keeps growing, it will stop growing. As Herb Stein said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." When it stops, it may be unpleasant. Other than Herb Stein's quote, I have no comment. But the things that trouble you are troubling me.”
“Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.”
“Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.”
“Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.”
“Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.”
“Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.”
Source: Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature
“Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze them. And with a tiny bit of an extraneous appendage to mark which is which...”
“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never not write a certain kind of novel out of fear of what the reaction to it will be.”
Source: A Widow For One Year
“Of course, if it were me, I wouldn’t really want to risk my mortality by bruising up an ex- heavyweight champion’s girlfriend. But that’s just me.”
Source: Outmatched
“Of course, if one does not fully trust the promise of God's Kingdom, he will have a hard time taking risks and making sacrifices in this life. A gospel centered around the temporal self - fleeting happiness, earthly success, vain prosperity, things such as these - is the primary ambition of the half-hearted Christian; the one who somewhat believes he is subject to an eternal death; the one who just might believe in men before God, who morbidly fears seeming less than anyone else. The man of this school feels deeply that he has but one life to live, that this must be his only chance, and therefore must have it all in his favor - from glory to comfort to riches - and have it right this instant. He is but hinting that he is overcome because he insists always that he must overcome, that his judgment comes now and by the persons around him. The point is, however, in this sense, that by grace the Christian is indeed free, but only for as long as he wants to be free - the practicality of true freedom: that of God which offers not so much freedom to be like the world as it does freedom from the pressures of having to be like the world. For Divine Law is based solely on love and freedom; whereas secular law, pressure and imitation.”
Source: Healology
“Of course, if someone hurts me or my body, it's not funny. I get mad, no kidding. But that's if it's me. If it's someone else, it's funny. Why? Because me -- that's me; and him -- that's not me, it's him. But the Oldeners say: Oh, horrors!”
Source: The Slynx
“Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.”
“Of course, if you can pretend to be strong all your life, then you can be very comforting to those around you.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Of course if you happen to time the market really well, you can make more money with some of these smaller companies, but for someone with no exposure I wouldn't want to take the risk that they timed it wrong.”
“Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.”
“Of course. If you're not afraid of kissing someone, they're not worth kissing.”
Source: The Kissing Coach
“Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.”
Source: The Eternal Wonder
“Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.”
“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…”
Source: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.”
“Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.”
“Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that”
“Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragmented news but news without context, without consequences, without value, and therefore without essential seriousness; that is to say, news as pure entertainment.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be”
“Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.”
Source: Odd Thomas
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.”
“Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.”