List of Topics starting with [O]

We cannot experience any entity in its totality, because we are not pure, disembodied minds, but are palpable bodies with our own opacities and limits.

Since 1937, about half the forests in the world have been cut down to make paper. If hemp had not been outlawed, most would still ...

Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' ...

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones ...

Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ...

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you ...

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them ...

Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.

Corporations haven't limited their grasp to the First Amendment; pretty much any and virtually every amendment that could be used to further corporate interests has ...

You want me to ask you why you left? Why you chose the open sea over my bed? A criminal's brand over my touch? I ...

Lady Brienne is a warrior maid," confided Septon Meribald, "hunting for the Hound." "Aye?" Narbert seemed taken aback. "To what end?" Brienne touched Oathkeeper's hilt. ...

I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from ...

Don't think too much. Descartes may come to existence when he thinks, but you perish and vanish when you think.

'Skinny' is only one body type.

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

If a person obeys because he has no choice in the matter and would rebel if he had the opportunity, there is nothing in his ...

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.

The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. ...

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of ...

I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give ...

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal ...

Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married ...

The eternity of "anytime" shines in this moment "now" while the unlimitedness of "anyplace" is manifested in the limits of "here." When the universality of ...

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety ...

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that ...

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite ...

Reason fourteen." I press my forehead against hers, locking her in my gaze. "You are so beautiful. Inside and out. I don't just need you. ...

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think ...

Folks, if you ever wake up feeling much better than originally anticipated, it's probably because you've overslept.

I noticed that the snow was gone and the ground looked greener. It's funny how the good stuff can wipe away the bad stuff so ...

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" that one's own time ...

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order ...

Usually we think a person is obligated to do something that would benefit many people, but what if that "something" is committing murder? Which is ...

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, ...

Here, take my advise ... I'm not using it." (John Jolliffe)

They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ...

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself ...

One dream is never enough, and your dream can be molded and finessed along the way to become relevant and successful.

It wasn't the type of CIA job you'd find an application for on Jobs/CIA.Gov. It was a deep black-ops organization that hadn't been to a ...

This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars ...

Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly.Garbage time is running out.Can what is ...

They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight ...

I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and ...

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

Obesity researchers now use a quasi-scientific term to describe exactly this condition: they refer to the "obesigenic" environment in which we now live, meaning an ...

These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a ...

In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release ...

Our love is perfect. And even though we may not be, our love creates a bridge that spans over our imperfections and joins us where ...

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and make - to ...

The new Turkish identity, which I call Muslim nationalism, is that of a pious Muslim Turk whose subjectivity and vision for the future is shaped ...

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and ...

When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me ...

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

Well me the real reason. I mean, haven't we been friends long enough that I deserve the truth?

I'm a girly girl. I'm strong, but I'm very timid. Very dainty.

I love hearing stories about, you know, people who are overcoming challenges in their life. And when you experience hardships, you can either fold or ...

A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day ...

I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other ...

No truth could ever fear me.

There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ...

Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people ...

Only when people got back to when the timequake hit did they stop being robots of their pasts. Only when free will kicked in could ...

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was ...

The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"

The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholicdrinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater,you don't ...

Honestly, depending on what stage I'm at in my life, my opinion on plastic surgery changes. I've never been against plastic surgery - I'm against ...

Why would you want to bring a foreign coach? Why? If you bring a foreign coach, you might as well bring foreign players, white players ...

I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a ...

If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't ...

Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.

You don't otta like someone to like fuckin' 'em. You can even hate their fuckin' guts and still like fuckin' 'em. Sometime's that's the best ...

We think we have some kind of privileged access to our own motives and intentions. In fact we have no clear insight into what moves ...

I have become lost to the world," he sings, quietly, "in which I otherwise wasted so much time.

Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing ...

I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that ...

In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The ...

Into that charm and the gloom and the deep silence Oth moved gravely; and a solemness came on his face as he entered the wood; ...

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human ...

Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no spot ...

No land too small to lose, no man too big to fall.

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw ...

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 ...

In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - ...

If only one day,their worlds could meet,just halfway.She would outplay,the distance rest,blaming the roads,led her astray.But only if,they could meet,just halfway.

Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack ...

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out ...

Why in the hell is she still taking off my clothes? Oh, my God! Maggie wants to rape me! I slap at her hand and ...

The Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between ...