#wit

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#conquest #defeat #either #empires #fallen

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#could #did #like #material #might

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void. ↗

— Stacie Orrico

#artists #center #empty #end #god

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#apprehension #birth #births #defects #entering

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. ↗

— George Orwell

#power #without #worshipper

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ↗

— George Orwell

#catch #consumes #creature #does #eggs

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

#belong #class #dreadful #feared #further

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows. ↗

— Buzz Osborne

#i #late #late teens #play #playing

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you. ↗

— Jack Osbourne

#coming #cup #followed #friend #get

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#does #go #medicine #patients #sails