List of Topics starting with [O]

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines ...

Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns ...

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding ...

You're too old to still be playing. I'll buy you a rocker you can sit in.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

If you will it, it is no dream.'" "I like that ... Who said it?" "Theodore Herzl.

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be ...

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece ...

The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam we ...

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,For a ...

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, ...

I like the idea of men's tailoring on girls. It's very strong and sexy in a non-overt way.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our ...

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on where you were sitting) Libby let off the smelliest, loudest fart known to humanity. It came out of her bum-oley ...

This is blasphemy!" Odalon declared in the same way Gerard Butler had once roared "This is Sparta." Sadly, Odalon had nobody to kick into a ...

Let's have the facts first," insisted Mr. Sandy Wadgers. "Let's be sure we'd be acting perfectly right in bustin' that there door open. A door ...

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

You should see the way she smiles when I rattle off the names of the orchids in the greenhouse: oncidium, dendrobium, bulbophyllum, and epidendrum, tickling ...

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. ...

I'm a fan of Tom's of Maine natural oral care line for those very reasons; they deliver on both healthy and environmental goodness. The beauty ...

No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by ...

She was a soul-sucking vampire and I was a sixteen-year-old cheerleader, but I was damned if she was going to suck the life out of ...

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the ...

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of ...

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. ...

Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once.

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

What could be more exciting than an October day? It's your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest ...

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria ...

He'd listened to enough half-truths and outright lies from the outlaws he'd collected bounties on not to notice the slight hesitations in her speech or ...

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place ...

I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that ...

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes ...

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting ...

She didn't even know what she'd do when she got back to New Orleans, but inside she felt a yearning to shove her hands in ...

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub ...

For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under ...

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is ...

When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church ...

The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible ...

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and ...

No disrespect to the fire god, naturally; blame it instead on His administration, presumably made up of officers of roughly the same level of ability ...

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.

Oh but it is Mr Bernstein, it is the ultimate game. And, once you take this folder you will have precisely 14 days in which ...

Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent ...

Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.

You sure? Because I specialize in deassholization." This time she smiles. Deassholization?" "Yeah. Just think of me as the Orkin man of assholesputting assholes in ...

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Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ...

The three main observactions - (1) the tail of available variety is far longer than we realize; (2) it's now within reach economically; (3) all ...

RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were ...

F you don't heal yourself, you willcontinue relying on miracles to heal your manifestations,one after another, creating a cycle where you don't makeany progress. Unless ...

Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.

This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn't ...

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

I'm a witch, not a Ouija board."--Rowan Gant (Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation)

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - ...

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this reality, ...

In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers ...

There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a ...

Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

College kids seem to look younger with every passing year. It's one of the hazards of growing older.

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement ...

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the ...

The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs.

The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, ...

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

A scorecard assesses progress to strategic goals whereas a dashboard assesses performance to operational goals.

When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.

Ostara, if one dies while in these othere states of consciousness, one dies indeed. this begs the question, are dreams truly only ever dreams?

I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it ...

Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. "All

When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on 'SNL' it's ...

I think I could have a funnier, more economic sets. But that's the comedy I do. And I understand if people aren't interested in it ...

As Lillian walked into the orangery, she was suffused in the scent of... oranges. But lemons, bays, and myrtles also cast their fragrance extravagantly through ...

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a ...

I think a lot of people know me for just wearing cut-off denim shorts, an oversized white T-shirt with a pair of high-heels. I usually ...

While Roscoe made cups of coffee for Charlie Hubble and Finlay sat in the rosewood office,

The next day I woke up in a sullen simmer, as if sleep had catalyzed my depression into a general state of pissed-offedness.

During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald ...

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ...

What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order ...

Ah, furchte fruchte, timid Danaides! Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe ...