O. Henry Quotes
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.
I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.
I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.
There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.
I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.
I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.
I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.
There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.
I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel
