H.W. Charles Quotes

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

Time, like a flurry of wild rain, Shall drift across the darkened pane!

All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

Everything that can be invented has already been invented.

To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.