O. Henry Quotes

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Work
  • You
  • Events

• People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Want
  • More

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Best

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Financial
  • News
  • Enthralled

• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • May
  • Design

• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Easy

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• I'm a normal guy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Guy
  • Normal

• It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Important
  • Career

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Truth
  • Become
  • Pet

• Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Experience
  • You
  • Wanted

• Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Joy
  • Melancholy
  • Resignation

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • People

• I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Why

• O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

  

  O. Henry
  • Giving
  • Wisest
  • Giving And Receiving