H.W. Charles Quotes

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.