O. Henry Quotes

When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

Going public is not a business plan.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

I suppose it's really satisfying to play someone with secrets. It's really satisfying to decide how and when those things are going to start being revealed, and how subtle to be.

I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

It's fascinating how life works.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

I have no plans to slow down.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.