O. Henry Quotes
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.
Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.
God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Although his time is not always our time, we can be sure that the lord keeps his promises.
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.
None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.
This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.
You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.
