All Quotes

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.
‐‐ Tom Clancy

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
‐‐ Marie Kondo

The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.
‐‐ Michael Lee-Chin

The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people.
‐‐ Bob Schaffer

The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.
‐‐ Claude Nicollier

The objects you decide to keep, the ones that gave you the spark of joy? Treasure them from now on. When you put things away, you can actually audibly say, 'Hey, thank you for the good work today...' By doing so, it becomes easier for you to put the objects away and treasure them, which prolongs the spark of joy environment.
‐‐ Marie Kondo

The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.
‐‐ David Souter

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes

The obligation of the judge in the circuit is to follow the previous decisions in the circuit unless those decisions are overruled by an en bloc panel of the court.
‐‐ Merrick Garland

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
‐‐ Ricardo Alarcon

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
‐‐ Ron Paul

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
‐‐ John Grierson

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.
‐‐ Lola Kirke

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
‐‐ Edward R. Murrow

The obscurest epoch is today.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
‐‐ Meir Kahane

'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available in a variety of platforms and written by an editorial staff known for its distinctive and discerning style and wit.
‐‐ Jared Kushner

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.
‐‐ Roberta Smith

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.
‐‐ Alex Tabarrok

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
‐‐ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it.
‐‐ Eliezer Yudkowsky

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
‐‐ Bjorn Lomborg

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
‐‐ Eddie Rickenbacker

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
‐‐ John Pearson

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
‐‐ Helena Blavatsky

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.
‐‐ Arundhati Roy

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.
‐‐ Robert Greenwald

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
‐‐ Eliot Spitzer

The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators are supporting that concept.
‐‐ John Battelle

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
‐‐ James A. Forbes

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.
‐‐ Enric Sala

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
‐‐ Enya

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.
‐‐ Enric Sala

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.
‐‐ Greg MacGillivray