O. Henry Quotes
For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.
The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.
The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the first priority.
I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies
Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.
Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.
I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.
I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'
This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.
And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.
