H.W. Charles Quotes

When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

The light that lies In woman's eyes.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.

Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.

Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.

Nobody remembers who came in second.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.

On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it!

Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I love you. So forget it.

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

Never set your stomach for a jelly-bread sandwich until you're sure there's some jelly!

Happiness is a sad song.

Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

Not sure if I need a glass of wine or a gun or both.

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it.

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]