Quotations Index - O

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QUOTATIONS INDEX

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Mary O'Connor

"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is
praised. The mosquito is swatted."  [ascribed]
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Georgia O'Keefe

"Nobody sees a flower, really--it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time."
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George Orwell

"Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."

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Joel Osteen

"No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don’t focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life."

"The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it’s permanent then it’s permanent. If you think you’ve reached your limits then you have. If you think you’ll never get well then you won’t. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that’s holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary."

* "You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people."
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Ovid

"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
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