O. Henry Quotes

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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.

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.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

We create our fate everyday

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith

We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.

You're just a prayer away from a change of heart.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!