H.W. Charles Quotes

I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.

Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money.

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

You never know when somebody will pull you to them.

I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

Verbs. All of them tiring.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.

Thought is the measure of life.

Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.

Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.

What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

It seems there are no rich on death row.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.

We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.

I cultivate my flowers and burn my weeds.