H.W. Charles Quotes

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper.

I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?