Michael O'Brien Quotes

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

Michael O'Brien

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• Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Reality

• I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Death

• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Trees
  • Plants
  • Gardening

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• I don't feel famous.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Feel
  • Famous

• Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Doubt
  • Direction

• This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • War
  • Hands

• It was my 44th win [in Monaco]; 44 is my race number; and it's been my number since I was 8. And it's my family's number as well. So it was a special day, for sure.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Family
  • Race
  • Monaco

• I send my condolences, and the condolences of the Palestinian people to American President Bush and his government and to the American people for this terrible act....We completely condemn this serious operation.... We were completely shocked.... It's unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • American
  • Serious

• Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Details

• A heavenly location for the actions of the savior gods, including the death of Christ, would also have been influenced by most religions' ultimate derivation from astrotheology, as in the worship of the sun and moon. For this dimension of more remote Christian roots, see the books of Acharya S, especially 'Suns of God.

  

  Earl Doherty
  • God
  • Death
  • Christian

• Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Health
  • Mayor

• A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

  

  E. B. White
  • Feeling
  • Organization
  • Equality

• He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

  

  Clark Kerr
  • Ideas
  • Students
  • Safe

• Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Focus

• It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Men
  • Merchants

• No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

  

  Sophocles
  • Darkness
  • Blind
  • Suffered

• Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Creating
  • Take Care
  • Dwelling

• I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Greatest
  • Dancers

• The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him.

  

  Eddie Long
  • Home
  • Cancer
  • Christ

• Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

  

  Michael O'Brien
  • Natural
  • Darkness
  • Dwelling