List of Topics starting with [O]

I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who ...

I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a ...

Pele is the greatest player in football history, and there would only be one Pele in the world.

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

He framed my face now, and I met his stare in the dark of the car. "I think you're beautiful." My heart folded like an ...

The center of my sins stuck behind a blocked door, circled by hollow deeds spread on my lifetime's floor

Maybe we're all shedding our fear and regret and hope everywhere we go, and we're catching up traces of people we've never met. Maybe it's ...

You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I ...

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find ...

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to ...

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just ...

Ometimes she felt like she was walking a fine line, precarious line between the two of them. Like there wasn't enough of her to be ...

Each to choose their own paths in life, regardless of education, no one can predict the outcome, then one goal in front of him. Anything ...

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

No-one chooses me. I do not give anyone that right. I am Karsa Orlong of the Teblor. All choices belong to me.

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find ...

Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of ...

It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will ...

It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest ...

And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.

Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And ...

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in ...

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

I used to wait tables at Gladstone's, a seafood restaurant, day in and day out. I made some of my best friends there. I taught ...

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and ...

There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You ...

But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little ...

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was ...

I'm a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic.

Man was made for joy and woeThen when this we rightly knowThrough the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fineA clothing for the ...

Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our ...

Von Pein's family was a little known, but highly influential entity within American banking circles. Banking Royalty, some called it. His grandfather had been one ...

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure ...

Come with us," I said, "and we will make you oarlock makers of men." "What?" said Joshua. "That's what they were doing when we came ...

Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children; or for anyone.I would give up the unessential; I would ...

Feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive ...

Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be ...

One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're ...

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is ...

His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be ...

Do-it-yourself morality, informed by personal passion rather than old-fogey morality, is the new norm.

I think if you look at the commonalities between eBay, PayPal and OpenTable, all three are businesses that built a network in a vertical. Network ...

I developed my personality to acquire freedom to do the things that I could learn somehow.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of ...

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God ...

If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's ...

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Everything changed ... even the things we didn't want to.

You are a drab, she told herself, seduced into infatuation by a soldier's tale. Outremer, bravery, crusade, it is illusory romance. Pull yourself together, woman.

Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would ...

A fake is a copy, a duplicate, a facsimile of an original. The professional coach is authentic - the real deal.

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called ...

Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store ...

That night, when you were lying there, broken and barely breathing, I promised. I promised to always love you and that no one would ever ...

I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his ...

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 ...

You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of ...

Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while ...

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

The echo of voices and old radios rose through these canyons of poverty, but only as far as the rooftops. The voice of the Raval ...

Whenever we use our brain, we fire certain neuronal connections, and the more these connections get used, the stronger they become.

Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that." "Do you have some better suggestion?" "Why can't you just say ...

I could have reached him in three quick strides and slipped my blade into his spine before he had the chance to fart.

Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden.

Obciously, it ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people; the assured and experienced truths that are put first to ...

And in my Dark Otherworld, there will be no innocents being abused by predators. All will be under my protection. I hold their fates in

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ...

I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.

I don't want to give the terrorists any ideas, but if I really wanted to cripple a city with biological warfare, my WMD of choice ...

Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them downconfront your bitterness ...

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and ...

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My ...

When we played at Celtic Park for Bayern in the Champions League it was unbelievable and I think all our players said the same thing ...

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our ...

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away ...

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level ...

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of ...

My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything ...

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.

Or else I may do something I'm pretty sure you'll hate me for in the mornin'." The low huskiness of his voice washed over her ...

You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay ...

You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

India is like Europe. This means there isone currency and numerous languages andcultures. And this is a 'Europe' made up ofvarious cultures.

But I gave the girl my address and phone number, thinking we might make it on the springs. (Harriet, you never arrived.)

Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same ...

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

He's changed. I don't know what caused it ... but what the heck? He's laughin' anyway, like a regular kid.

City halls are always huge and ornate and topped with ancient volcanic stone towers.