O. Henry Quotes
The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.
Politics doesn't align with emotions. An emotional politician is most likely to be a tyrannical leader.
I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry, " said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina."It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.
For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.
She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.
Believers can search the Scriptures on their own, and allow the Word of God, coinciding with the Holy Spirit, to enlighten their understanding, and open their spiritual eyes.
All believers need to become teachers, shepherds, ministers, and good-news-bearers.
In Acts, every believer was living in a direct relationship with Him (Christ) and each one functioned normally as a member of His body in oneness with all believers.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
Clarity leads to attention and attention leads to results.
When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.
Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.
Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.
Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not "art for art's sake" but art that breathes true meaning.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.
Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.
We both know that pain comes for us all. It's almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?
I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.
There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.
Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back.
The world is Absolutely Brilliant. Difficult sometimes. Confusing often. But humorous almost always.
One of the best things I learned from my parents was to be HONEST and work HARD!
The power to shape your destiny lies in your strength to take control of your thoughts, abilities and actions.
A challenge only makes you stronger, wiser and a better person than you was yesterday.
Don’t do things to point out your weaknesses, do things to point out your strength.
