H.W. Charles Quotes

love is form, and cannot be without important substance

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.

And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

You probably don't have much of a choice.

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

You should never risk your integrity or your soul for any amount of money.

The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

Think first. Talk less. Start today.

What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!