List of Topics starting with [O]

Find the joy in your everyday situations. You have the choice, you always did and you will always do. Thrive.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence ...

The odds may be stacked against you. But I believe when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense ...

I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, ...

But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far ...

There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no ...

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all of my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as an occupational ...

In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about ...

Us f'gotten slaves was bein' drained by hunger'n'pain an' the mozzies from the slopin' pond now an' we was envyin' that Hawi boy diresome, till ...

I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.

Overconsumerism justifies everything.

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessedit would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressedIt's like our visit to ...

I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

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. ...

One good turn deserves another.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

I think fans are just obsessed with the 'Twilight' saga and then within it they might have preferences between if they're Team Jacob, Team Edward ...

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly ...

Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor ...

APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons ...

Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility.

Amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the ...

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. ...

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead ...

Sillus have friend," the little monkey dude says, looking up at me with wide eyes. "Family. Lots. Go get, they help huntress.

Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach ...

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it-Onookome Okome

I'm not overweight. I'm simply overgravitated. Spell-check

There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want ...

Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead.

Like all of my previous work - which I also hope is a bit hard to categorise - 'The Oopsatoreum' is an illustrated book, so ...

I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and ...

Henceforward there is no longer anything absolutely foreign. Everything is within reach. Accordingly, there is no longer anything exclusively 'own' either. Authenticity has become folklore, ...

God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many ...

When I ran mortgages, I religiously took people from the back office. At first I did it for moral reasons. But it worked. They appreciated ...

Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.

Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows - ...

All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. ...

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be ...

Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks ...

Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis, 9:6 Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore ...

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed ...

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are ...

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. ...

And Teddy worried lots aboutThe fact that he was rather stout.He thought: If only I were thin!But how does anyone begin?

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.

If you need to stop an asteroid, you call Superman. If you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But if you need to ...

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.~Welsh Proverb~

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and ...

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for ...

What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems ...

European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories.

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly ...

Empathy requires us to step outside of our own agendas long enough to develop an understanding of the other person's perspective. It can be rightly ...

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of ...

I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to ...

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughtsTo courtship and such fair ostents of loveAs shall conveniently become you there.

Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages ...

I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, ...

And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to ...

There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.

There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

Father has been home a lot lately. There's nothing for him to do at the office; it must be awful to feel you're not needed. ...

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in ...

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to ...

A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey.

I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole ...

When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is ...

I didn't trust it for a momentbut I drank it anyway,the wine of my own poetry.It gave me the daring to take holdof the darkness ...

Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up ...

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety ...

Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains ...

To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.

Lost race?" The Prince studied Orayna, trying to see something inhuman in her. "Why have I never heard of these 'Rathiuel'?" "Because," Azaroth rapped his ...

Dont think before you take the leap. Take the leap and then do all the f***king thinking.

We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can't feed the living.

Don't be embarrassed,' she said, throwing an armful of clothing on the hook. 'I don't faint at the sight of a naked man. Triss Merigold, ...

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and ...

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. ...

Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was ...

The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying ...

Could you be nostalgic for a friendship that wasn't over yet or did the fact that you were nostalgic mean that it already was?

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!