H.W. Charles Quotes
The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.
Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it but it takes brains to build a house.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
Take your time.Stay away from the easy going.Never take the same way twice.Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance Guadalcanal 1942
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind it forces you to stretch your own.
All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)
To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.
Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.
Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.
Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.
A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.
I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.
Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...
Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
I generally give the title-page a fair chance, " Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.
The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.
Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems.
Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?
Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever.
Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me!
When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves "why.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.
He said, I've been coming for you on a hard road. I'm never letting you go. Never.
True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.
The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.
They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!
They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, ‘Shit, it’s raining!
