Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground.
Sir Thomas Overbore
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
Overlung
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
Harry A. Overstreet
To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
Without consistency there is no moral strength.
Owen
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert Owen
Man is the creature of circumstances.
To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship.
One chance is all you need.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.
John Oxenham
To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstiern
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Half this game is 90% mental.
Danny Ozark
After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
Cynthia Ozick
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: first the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it.
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'Ien
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.
Pius XII Pacelli
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Al Pacino
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
David Packer
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal.
J. I. Packer
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.
Ignacy (Jan) Paderewski
My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.
Marcel Pagnol
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