H.W. Charles Quotes

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Love is sentimental measles.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

Men must work, and women must weep.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.

I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

If Hillary Clinton had policies that would more likely make people's lives better than Republicans, I'd be for Hillary. I'm for whoever will do that. I couldn't care less.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.