All Quotes

An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
‐‐ John Hockenberry

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
‐‐ Pliny the Elder

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
‐‐ Vladimir Prelog

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
‐‐ Samuel Alexander

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.
‐‐ Jimmy Johnson

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
‐‐ Josh Radnor

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
‐‐ Juan Cole

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
‐‐ John Bevere

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
‐‐ Daniel Morgan

An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler

An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.
‐‐ George Carey

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
‐‐ Ben Edwards

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

An Oklahoma girl like me wouldn't even know how to be a diva. I'm just a person who has a cool job. I love to be at home. I rarely go to clubs... and I always wear underwear! I just know I'd fall down, and that's not for everyone to see.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
‐‐ H. Rap Brown

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
‐‐ Cameron Mackintosh

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
‐‐ Robert Bresson

An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?
‐‐ Snoop Dogg

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.
‐‐ Hannah Kearney

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.
‐‐ Chad le Clos

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

An Op-Ed by a Republican criticizing the Democrats, or vice versa, is easy to come by and not that interesting. But a Democrat who takes issue with his or her party, or a Republican who does that, is more valuable.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
‐‐ Bob Nelson

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
‐‐ John Gay

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.
‐‐ Adeo Ressi

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
‐‐ George Soros

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.
‐‐ Johnnie Cochran

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
‐‐ Maria Callas

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
‐‐ Henry Clay

An oppressed people will always rise.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
‐‐ Confucius

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
‐‐ Jules Renard

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
‐‐ Ring Lardner

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
‐‐ Don Marquis

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
‐‐ Irv Kupcinet

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
‐‐ Rene Descartes