All Quotes

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
‐‐ Thomas Ken

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.
‐‐ Tim Blake Nelson

O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted spittle on your face. Remove the shame from my face, and grant me to have an unashamed face before you at the time of prayer.
‐‐ Isaac of Nineveh

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
‐‐ Dante Alighieri

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
‐‐ Anne Boleyn

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
‐‐ Alfred Lord Tennyson

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
‐‐ Ben Jonson

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
‐‐ Quintus Ennius

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
‐‐ Jan Hus

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
‐‐ Joseph Banks

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
‐‐ Bryan Procter

O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
‐‐ Marshall Brickman

O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
‐‐ Baha'u'llah

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
‐‐ Anne Boleyn

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

O'Malley wanted to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn because he saw the promised land. He was right about that, but to this day I think he was wrong to take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

O month when they who love must love and wed.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson

O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
‐‐ Saint Ambrose

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.
‐‐ George Whitefield

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
‐‐ Gabriel Byrne

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
‐‐ John Gay

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
‐‐ Louis Aragon

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.
‐‐ Robert Greenwald

'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
‐‐ Elizabeth Kenny

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.
‐‐ Elias Hicks

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
‐‐ George Whitefield

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
‐‐ Thomas Dekker

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
‐‐ Ada Cambridge

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
‐‐ Chanakya

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.
‐‐ Isabella Bird