List of Topics starting with [O]

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

The government here is entirely in the hands of the army. The Grand Signor [Ottoman Sultan], with all his absolute power, is as much a ...

I also worry about the incessant drumbeat of self-objectification: the pressure on young women to reduce their worth to their bodies and to see those ...

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

We are stronger today than we ever have been. We are united. And we are moving forward through this thing one step at a time. ...

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough,' said ...

Time to wake to a wholesome diet--Marx and Engels, Andy Warhol and Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouak and the Grateful Dead, Sartre and Gide--it was a ...

I had just climbed on top of the counter when Konrad reached over me and grabbed the bowls, smirking when I glared at him. He ...

An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand ...

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful ...

When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, ...

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would ...

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Of all the things that men may heed'Tis most of love they sing indeed.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

He found what he'd hoped to see, the reason why she'd left so quickly. Just outsidee the tent, Lan held her tightly.

Claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myselfshane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here

I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support ...

He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. ...

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

The blazing fire consumed all. No one got out alive. And

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.

Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons ...

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any ...

Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part ...

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.

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 ...

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can ...

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have ...

Obligers may struggle to monitor unless someone is checking on them.

Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs that ...

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does ...

Oh boy, when you're with me. Oh boy, I want the world to see that you were meant for me.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you ...

So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side of ...

I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what ...

Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind ...

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

Cortana," he said. "Made by Wayland the Smith, the legendary forger of Excalibur and Durendal. Said to choose its bearer. When Ogier raised it to ...

But she wasn't in love with him - Otho hadn't said that. He had seen no attachment on her part. And Celaena would never be ...

Oberon:She's a very clever girl, the kind you dont' take home to Ogma.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep ...

Germany, because of the fact and the perception of a special relationship with Russia, is the only one who can influence Russian debate. Russians also ...

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, ...

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later those oils fire ...

I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE ...

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by magnificent young men ...

This means that a woman who continues regular, sustained exercise until the onsent of labor usually delivers five to seven days earlier than a woman ...

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. ...

It's my personal onion theory. See, it's like we've all got layers on layers, going deep inside, to layer ten, that place where we're spiritual ...

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, ...

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

We were jigsawed, meant to fit together, making a whole picture.

My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon ...

Live for One day instead to die every day.Work is worshipDo or die.

It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that you could now ...

If a man of real sensitivity and correct reasoning feels concerned about the evil and injustice of the world, he naturally seeks to correct it ...

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it ...

Rain patters on the roof of the wagon like the dancing feet of a hundred happy elves.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

Oh for women at sea to obviate the eternal crosscat-harpings,' he said to himself, 'to do away with the grumlinfuttocks, and to inject a little ...

Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their heartsFor he is an ultimate and overlooked Don ...

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all ...

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with ...

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you ...

Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation.

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And ...

Brendan O'Meara's Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales of the track ...

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

Whenever there's a nude scene, it's always uneasy. You're not in the comfort of your own home with your significant other.

Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. ...

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can't enjoy ...

The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

Did you know that more than 65% of the people who label themselves "born again Christians" seldom or never read the Bible? Of those who ...

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

Actually it deals ("as usual" I was about to say!) with Life, Love and Death. Because nothing in fact is more important. To occupy oneself ...

Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk ...

The woman had told the truth. The flowers were the color of sunset. And not the yellowish tinge of a lazy sun either, but the ...

I think this point is so important, I'm going to repeat it: You should never listen to criticism that is primarily intended to wound, even ...