An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
‐‐ Bill Vaughan
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
‐‐ Jacques Prevert
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
‐‐ Maria Edgeworth
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
‐‐ Theophrastus
An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.
‐‐ Joel Salatin
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
‐‐ Kurt Masur
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.
‐‐ Leonard Slatkin
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
‐‐ Orson Pratt
An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.
‐‐ Ami Ayalon
An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.
‐‐ Andrea M. Ghez
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
‐‐ Carl Van Vechten
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.
‐‐ Jill Lepore
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
‐‐ Augustine Birrell
An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
‐‐ Ahmet Davutoglu
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly
An organization needs to be constantly refreshed.
‐‐ Tim Finchem
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
‐‐ Dee Hock
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
‐‐ Jack Welch
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
‐‐ Mary Elizabeth Lease
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
‐‐ Stephen Fry
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
‐‐ Man Ray
An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.
‐‐ Thomas Campbell
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
‐‐ Alejandro Amenabar
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
‐‐ Joseph Addison
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
‐‐ Michael Korda
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
‐‐ Michael Korda
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
‐‐ Mae West
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen
An outsider can see some things much better.
‐‐ Anil Kapoor
An outsider's point of view is always handy.
‐‐ Pat Oliphant
An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.
‐‐ Henry Petroski
An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn
An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn
An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
‐‐ Ellen Tauscher
An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.
‐‐ Meles Zenawi
An overwhelming number of economists, international civil servants, and policy-makers argue that a fragmentation of the Eurozone would cause a new depression and massive wealth destruction around the world. It would also end the period of economic integration that has characterized world politics since the end of the Cold War.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab
An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.
‐‐ Don Kardong
An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
‐‐ Moshe Sharett
An' this house just ain't no home, Anytime she goes away.
‐‐ Bill Withers