List of Topics starting with [O]

Because, as we are told - a sad old joke, too - Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their ...

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked ...

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. ...

Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply ...

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew ...

Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slainso worse ...

Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the ...

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally ...

When one door closes another one is supposed to open but, if it doesn't you can always climb out the window

Your writing blows, by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only ...

One day I was driving down the farm track in the pickup,with two of the little boys, aged about four or five, sitting beside me. ...

True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path ...

Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any ...

The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining ...

You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we ...

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

It's orange down low near the horizon, and pink on top, like the sky's blushing as it forces out the sun.

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus ...

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go ...

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another.

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened ...

P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the ...

I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people ...

I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but ...

Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War ...

Manufacturing offspring had damaged his female's emotional system. He

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

Having sliced Odovacar in half in early spring 493, Theoderic ruled his Italian kingdom for the next thirty-three years, until his own death on 30 ...

HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point ...

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in ...

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest ...

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and ...

Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it ...

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government ...

I know a manHe came from my home townHe wore his passion for his womanLike a thorny crownHe said DoloresI live in fearMy love for ...

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time ...

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ...

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this ...

Keep things simple. It will not help you if you keep on overcomplicating work-related stuff. It is difficult to move under a complicated context.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. ...

Life does find a way to create a balance somewhere between smiles and tears. And, like a pendulum's swing, life seldom stays in one place. ...

Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world for us.

The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the ...

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. ...

I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know ...

Rincewind switched to High Borogravian, to Vanglemesht, Sumtri and even Black Oroogu, the language with no nouns and only one adjective, which is obscene. Each ...

And it's not like I've never jacked off. I'm fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn't is lying. ...

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. ...

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, ...

I picked up my volume of Collected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe. I sprawled across the bed and flipped through the pages until ...

I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that ...

Clary knew she'd never be able to pull off that sort of elegance in a million years, and she didn't care. Isabelle was Isabelle, and ...

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on ...

When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, ...

I met you as a stranger. Now I have you as a friend. I hope we meet on our next walk of life where our ...

I want to see a doctor," I said.He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul ...

For us, the greatness of this universe is to give us every means by which we may build our dreams!

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of ...

While obsession with one's personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the ...

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of ...

So often one thinks that individuals and situations cannot be so extraordinary as they seem from outside: only to find that the truth is a ...

Down Time's quaint streamWithout an oarWe are enforced to sailOur Port a secretOur Perchance a GaleWhat Skipper wouldIncur the RiskWhat Buccaneer would rideWithout a surety ...

Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.

Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during ...

How different would today be if you knew it would be your last one on earth before meeting God face-to-face? We should strive to live ...

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something ...

Pilate was required to release one of the prisoners, so he gave the mob the choice of Jesus or Barabbas, a notorious murderer and insurrectionist-in ...

He pulls the tape off Allegra's mouth. Grabs her BY THE HAIR and gives her a peck on the lips.

It's hard to describe, but there are times when ... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when ...

Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to ...

Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the ...

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair ...

One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a ...

A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when ...

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

I'm only talking to one person here. If that's you, then you need to shut up and listen. If it's not, then you need to ...

No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and ...

So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still ...

ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author Mammy Oaklee

When sleepy, meditate with your eyes open wide. Stand in place for a few minutes or do walking meditation. If it's really bad, walk briskly ...

Take Care of Yourself First- It's Easier to Serve Others That Way.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. ...

All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town ...

A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched.

Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are are the destination. They are the journey. They are home.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward ...