List of Topics starting with [O]

Big words from a guy who's trussed up like a turkey. What are you going to do, wobble over here like an upside- down turtle ...

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg ...

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She ...

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, ...

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, ...

To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne ...

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school ... whatever ... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have ...

Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their ...

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must ...

Now the oppa is the object of romantic affection - the manly man, the stud. You

Every inch of ground on this planet is a palimpsest, scraped clean and overwritten a million times, leaving behind just as many ghosts.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to ...

For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and ...

It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in ...

Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the ...

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective ...

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth ...

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

[I don't get it. You guys look down on chimps for flinging their own poo but you think it's fine to fling other kinds of ...

It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that opens ...

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

The outriders came on them an hour from the Green Fork, as the wayn was slogging down a muddy road.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we ...

I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new ...

Focusing on our individual steps can cure the paralysis and overwhelm, which sometimes occurs when staring into the future.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers ...

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever ...

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

I'm fearless. This man can cure anything. I smile.

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for ...

I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 ...

Hey guys, what did the lion say after eating the clown?" The boys stopped. One looked confused, but the other grinned. "What?" he called. "I ...

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that ...

A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that?

I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in ...

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the ...

This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple ...

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

There are opportunities in every struggle. Look for these opportunities and make it great.

[W]e're caught by our concepts ... [C]oncepts are not Reality.

Ole Anderson! Layin' down could not take me out with a steel toed boot! Could not put me away with a steel toed boot! And ...

Dallas Cowboys may be America's team, but the Houston Oilers are Texas' team.

Twice daily I had to circle through the one year olds' room here in the Old Mishnah Orphan Home where twenty babies sat naked in ...

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in ...

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...

I was aware of the time slipping away so quickly and I was hideously afraid that I would never have another chance to be with ...

In a new issue of Esquire magazine, they revealed that before he was married to Teresa Heinz, Senator John Kerry dated Morgan Fairchild, Michelle Phillips, ...

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

Garfield took Odie's paw. "Old pal, if anything happens to us, there's one thing you should know.""It's going to happen to you first.

It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

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

You know there are two kinds of tears. Tears for those who leave you and tears for those who you never let go. And I ...

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to ...

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be ...

To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in ...

The door of true knowledge will opento the light

If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact ...

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Olgun! Wake up!"Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous andvaguely drowsy protest."Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were justpracticing snoring, so ...

Fuck you. I am more than just a pair of ovaries you can put a ring on.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can ...

We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He ...

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole ...

With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt like ...

We are all trying to get the exact style of ouuselves.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks at it too clearly.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me ...

I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the ...

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but ...

Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance ...

To paraphrase Nietzsche: 'That which doesn't kill us, sometimes makes us wish it had.

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over ...

Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear ...

Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y ...

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two ...

May I live this day ... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love ...

The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle ...

Some things are not easy to forget,no matter how far life can go,even when your old they will keep on coming back to you every ...

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no ...

Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envyof dissatisfaction with his life. ...

Fuck the ones who hurt you Stop thinking about them, Get on with your own lifeThey'll eventually come back with apologies And you'll gladly accept ...

The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict ...

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.