O. Henry Quotes

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

By weaker accents, what's your praise When Philomel her voice doth raise?

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself.

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

God warns before he wounds.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.

Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Our creature comforts