O. Henry Quotes
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.
no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.
It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.
In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.
Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.
When you start speaking the "TRUTH" it creates enemies out of Ignorance. But always learn to speak the truth, though, it should be a solid weapon to a positive progression.
Setting boundaries isn't an alternative to loving your child. It is a means of loving her.
Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.
We’re gonna do like Posh and Becks and call it after the place it was conceived.”“Where’s that?” I asked.“King of Prussia.
He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.
Being an entrepreneur is not about the money, its about the freedom.
The demoralization that the debasement of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bringing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.
You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.
The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.
Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.
Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.
If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
When you've been lost as I have, " he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.
My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.
He was definitely taking his bodyguard duties seriously tonight. He gave off a take-one-step-closer-and-I-will-show-you-Armageddon vibe.
I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.
For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.
A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return.
If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.
A fugitive on the run with a plan for the future is the definition of hubris.
He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.
The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.
If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin, and the coin tossedinto the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.
I am still hoping to see an America that would gradually move beyond race, only in times when old ideas would no longer lives and the new will grow with the young generation.
I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.
