We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY
O. HENRY
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.
O. HenryO. Henry She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HenryO. Henry Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HenryO. Henry Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. HenryO. Henry Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HenryO. Henry No friendship is an accident.
O. HenryO. Henry What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. HenryO. Henry By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
O. HenryO. Henry A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HenryO. Henry East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
O. HenryO. Henry It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
O. HenryO. Henry Women’s weapon, water-drops.
O. HenryO. Henry When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
O. HenryO. Henry Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
O. HenryO. Henry The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HenryO. Henry It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. HenryO. Henry
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
Robert GravesRobert Graves Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.
Robert GravesRobert Graves With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
Karl PopperKarl Popper If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie