O. Henry Quotes

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.

It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

You treat anyone normally, and they'll treat you normally back.

If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

I'm satisfied as long as I dominate.

I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring!

My comedy is for adults, but you can have your kids listen to it. They won't get all the jokes because hopefully I'm more cerebral than a 10-year-old... but if you ask my wife, I'm not!

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

The better we know each other, the more we love each other.

I'd rather be right than President.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.