All Quotes

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
‐‐ Jonathan Larson

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
‐‐ Antony Jay

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.
‐‐ Ali Abdullah Saleh

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
‐‐ Paulo Freire

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
‐‐ Kim Il-sung

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
‐‐ Hosea Ballou

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
‐‐ Margery Allingham

The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
‐‐ Peter Thiel

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
‐‐ James Branch Cabell

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
‐‐ J. Robert Oppenheimer

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves.
‐‐ Michael Moss

The optimum committee has no members.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.
‐‐ Len G. Murray

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.
‐‐ Carol Loomis

The orb allows for constant dynamic feedback.
‐‐ David Rose

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
‐‐ Max Bill

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.
‐‐ David Rose

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.
‐‐ David Rose

The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
‐‐ Agnes Obel

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
‐‐ Jacques Ellul

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion.
‐‐ Paul Singer

The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
‐‐ Ronald Blythe

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
‐‐ Ben Stein

The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.
‐‐ Gunnar Myrdal

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
‐‐ Edith Pearlman

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
‐‐ George Steiner

The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
‐‐ Paramahansa Yogananda

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
‐‐ Henry Miller

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
‐‐ Aleister Crowley

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.
‐‐ Dixie Lee Ray

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
‐‐ John L. Lewis

The organization and the environment are in concert.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.
‐‐ Ann Cotton

The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
‐‐ Mitchell Baker

The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
‐‐ Oliver E. Williamson

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.
‐‐ Heather Langenkamp