O. Henry Quotations | Page 5

Things get very fuzzy past the five-year point.

Once again our main goal is consistency. As long as our dogs stay healthy and happy I think we'll have a good year.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it

Again I repaired to the park and sat in the moon shade. I thought and thought, and wondered why none could tell me what I asked for.

It's not about numbers. Being able to generate operational effects on the battle space - that's what it's about.

It's really a milestone for us in some ways. We're bringing back something that we had lost.

Any time you get a blocked shot, a big rebound, (or) a dunk, it can ease your nerves and makes it easier to play after that. But I knew the game wasn't over, and I kept that in mind afterward.

So, all the time you always have to put yourself back to the beginning position and just try to perform when there is the next game around.

That's a marvelous achievement for George. New Zealanders have a huge amount of respect for him as a person and as a player and to be the fourth person to achieve that milestone is huge and everybody respects and appreciates what he has done.

I'm not going to say what the contract is, but it made me shudder. It's a lot of money. We've made him an offer which is probably as good an offer as anybody in this country - maybe other than Chelsea - would make.

I'm excited for the summer. Well, not excited for the summer, but I'm excited for the season, anyway.

I'm proud of the 3,000-meter girls. They did a good job.

I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex Olson and Kenny Lybeck. So, I'm a happy coach, even though I'm disappointed with the loss.

I'm really, really proud of our New Mexico kids. She wasn't a great high school athlete, but to see what she's done (at UNM) is very special.

I'm really glad he could win the race. Unfortunately when we go there, that's not really what we're looking for. When we go to that meet we're looking to qualify. He's definitely capable of qualifying.

I just want to encourage people to come by and see this stuff.

I imagined Theo was going to be general manager for the rest of my life.

I'm sure it will be really strange for him. You can imagine when he steps out on the pitch everyone will go crazy - he was more than a great servant for this club. And I'm sure that if he has to put his foot in then he will!

I'm thrilled with the performance, but disappointed to lose on a technicality. It's a tough way to learn a lesson, but it doesn't take anything away from the way the kids ran.

I know the quality of these boys. All the youngsters have grown in confidence. With our attacking ability and especially -- what for me is the most impressive thing -- the fact we are not conceding goals, I can say we are cautiously optimistic.

I know when we stopped them and got a turnover, then forced a three-and-out and were still down 14-10 that there was something wrong. That scoring needs tweaking.

I'm looking forward to the second half of September. How could you not want to be in a pennant race with the Yankees?

I'm pretty sure that if we win, we're through (to the playoffs). I can't imagine that with five conference wins we wouldn't go through.

I most remember the Black faculty lunches he would host while working as the faculty assistant for affirmative action. It was the only place on campus you could regularly meet colleagues from across the various departments and hear about issues that affected our community.

I have not heard anything else from the doctor, who I will be seeing later this morning about it.

I have not set a date for my comeback in the Premier League. I am living day after day so far.

I guess all things have to end, and they ended (the scoreless stretch) with authority.

I'm very happy to publicly declare what almost all of us in New England already know.

I'm very happy to declare publicly what almost all of us in New England already know: David Ortiz is the greatest clutch hitter to ever wear the uniform of the Boston Red Sox. I say 'almost' because beginning today' the debate will begin.

I'm very happy and proud to come and play in Martinique.

I'm not taking it very seriously. Maybe I'm naive, but surely there's going to be gas, it's just what you have to pay for it.

I'm hoping that we will be able to ask him about that in the future.

I'm hoping. I've tried to carry myself that way because the struggle was much more than just breaking the color barrier in baseball. It was everything.

I'm assuming whoever gets in a good rhythm and moving the offense, moving chains. I'm guessing that's how they're going to do it.

If somebody on any team is using illegal substances we want to know about it and it should be dealt with.

I had all my pitches and was locating the ball real well. The pitches they got RBIs on were right where I wanted to throw it.

If you're on a roll you get two or three.

If you look at this long war we're engaged in, and we think of it relative to the Cold War, we're kind of still in the Truman administration.

In the last 20 years, all these spots and sales promotions and contests were designed to deliver to advertisers, but we've lost sight of the fact that we have to get the listeners first.

In the game of baseball the hitters at this level are so good, you just can't make any mistakes. They will take advantage of free passes. That is the biggest thing. I am a control guy. I can't go out there and put three guys on with walks and hit by pitches. That is inexcusable. That is something I have to work on.

In spite of this, once admitted to the general ward the typhus patient did not contaminate any of the other patients, the nurses or the doctors.

I just tried to clog up the middle, tried to be as big a presence as I possibly could be. I basically just used my body to make it tough for them, kind of get them out of synch with their offense.

I just wanted to get out there and blow the cobwebs out.

I just thought the ball was coming from one side and I wanted to send it to the other side of the 'keeper.

I remember ... how crazy this place was. I kind of got my first taste. We went downtown and saw everybody going nuts. That's really the first time I got a taste of this rivalry and what it means to everybody.

I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

I hold myself wholly responsible. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would ever happen. I had this romantic notion that Theo was going to be our general manager for the rest of my life.

I have to be honest, I didn't mean to do that. When the ball came, I tried to get my foot out of the way. But I'm really happy as we managed to show a completely different game in the second half. They really hurt us in the first half.

I really respect Shay Given as a goalkeeper, he's one of the best in England, but I'm going to do my best tonight. He has played well against me but if I remember well, I always usually come out of it with a goal.

I really don't. You never know in a short series what can happen. Anaheim has the home-field advantage against New York. So who knows?

If you love stressing the importance of achieving good grades in school, your children are going to love that. I believe he would say that to you today.

It helps us develop technologies and techniques needed for opening the space frontier.

I realized I made a couple mistakes on the field last year in college. I just think that comes from being young, you know? Everybody makes mistakes.

But if everything runs well over the next few months it's obvious.

He's still very, very young. We're really lucky to have him here.

He's explosive, he's big, he's got presence on the field, and he's probably the best line breaker in this country. He just needs experience playing in the midfield ? probably at 13.

He's just a huge competitor and he loves what he's doing. He's going to be a really good one when it's all said and done.

Before the game, I could see a lot of people's faces. They were focused. We needed this win bad. It was a big day.

Checotah, Home of Carrie Underwood, American Idol 2005.

By donating, you will also be supporting your own community and literally saving lives with every pint donated.

Hopefully, later on down the line we can play them again and give them a run for their money.

Homelessness is a horrible plight, especially for someone with a family. I have a great husband, great children who are healthy, doing well in school and are well adjusted. A lot has been given to me. I don't know why my life is so blessed and why others (that) work just as hard, for some reason, are not. I want to do what I can and I'm impressed with the integrity of Habitat for Humanity.

He's tough. He's probably the best, or one of the best pitchers we'll face all year.

He's limping a bit but he'll be fine.

He's a huge, huge competitor, and today he really did try to win that race. He went out a little too fast, but you can't ever tell somebody not to try and win the race.

Gap owned the white-wall-and-maple-floor look. But everyone caught up.

If he's making positive progress we can hold on to the day of the game. It's still a 50-50 deal as to whether he will play or not.

I definitely have more respect for the hazards of nuclear power.

I couldn't tell you why I had success on the road. I try to do the same thing I do every time out no matter where I am at. I just need to give my defense the chance to make plays behind me and if they do that we will be alright. Pitching and defense are the keys because I know our offense can find a way to scrap out a few runs.

I don't think there's an urgency, but it's something that's being discussed.

I'd say our chances of qualifying are 60-40 in our favor.

I'd stay away from Ecstasy. This is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance.

I don't want to cause an argument or create trouble but I think it was a penalty. With a bit more luck on our side the referee would have made the decision.

I don't think we can project ahead. I'm sure the legal questions will be discussed.

I couldn't beat her on the second lap. It just wasn't there as much as it has been in the past. I'll just have to get back into training.

I believe his work in Black Psychology will influence future generations. His contribution to building the Department of African American Studies will remain and inspire as long as the department exists.

Grandpa always said to try to learn something new every day and if you think you've learned it all it was time to get out of the business.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic

The kid has no fear, plenty of heart. Those first couple of weeks, I tried to push him. I was overly aggressive to see how he would handle it. But he just doesn't feel pressure.

The (Florida International) women and Western Kentucky men are probably the favorites, but any one of three teams can win on either side. It will be close and exciting.

The hurricanes put the icing on the cake.

The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.

The girls are very anxious and excited. It's a good opportunity for us.

The game is getting more and more physical and injuries are more common. For any major campaign, we need to be two-deep at every position and three-deep at some specialist positions.

The game got physical, and we had too many turnovers. But all year, our girls fought hard, and they did tonight until the very end. I was very proud of them.

The community in which you choose to live, indeed, can be an oasis of comfort in the midst of a maddeningly impersonal world.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

East is East, and West is San Francisco

You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

Women's weapon, water-drops.

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.