O. Henry Quotes
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.
Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
They say dreams are the windows of the soul-take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.
The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are .
If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.