All Quotes

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
‐‐ Alfred de Vigny

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
‐‐ Adelbert von Chamisso

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
‐‐ Andrew Taylor Still

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
‐‐ Havelock Ellis

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
‐‐ John Bigelow

Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
‐‐ LaToya London

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

Off stage, I'm very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.
‐‐ Tessanne Chin

Off the floor, I'm really laid back: like, nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor, I do get emotional and a little carried away. However, I started playing when I was 13 to have fun with my teammates, and that never stopped. I enjoy traveling and having fun in the locker room with the guys. Life is too short to be miserable.
‐‐ Dirk Nowitzki

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don't achieve the interviewer's objective - to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That's the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.
‐‐ Marcus Brigstocke

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.
‐‐ Kevin DeYoung

Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense.
‐‐ John Bevere

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
‐‐ Mary Lou Williams

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
‐‐ Alden Nowlan

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.
‐‐ John Sununu

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.
‐‐ George S. Kaufman

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.
‐‐ John Banville

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
‐‐ Grover Cleveland

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
‐‐ David K. Shipler

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.
‐‐ Gregory Bateson

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
‐‐ David Icke

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.
‐‐ Michelle Malkin

Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Official truths are often powerful illusions.
‐‐ John Pilger

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.
‐‐ Romario

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

Officiating is trying to do your absolute best with what you've got.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
‐‐ Guru Nanak

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
‐‐ Edwin Markham

Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
‐‐ Pat Brown