H.W. Charles Quotes
When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all.
If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.
People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell...
There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae
Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.
This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--
If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19
I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?
There is no possible idea, " Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.
It's better to get busy then to stay bitter.
Are you waiting for the approval of someone else before you make your big move? If you are, chances are they’ve already made it.
A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.
The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.
The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…
Letting go of anger is the best way to find peace of mind, a healthier pain-free body, and an indomitable spirit.
The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.
Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.
Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.
We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.
They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.
The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.
Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.
The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.
Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.
The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.
Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)
If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.
On the worst days, I feel fine. On the best days, I know I am not.
Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day?
The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...)
A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil.
Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.
I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
For till the thunder and trumpet be, Soul may divide from body, but not weOne from another
Live your everyday extraordinary!
Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.
I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.
When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)
Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them.
If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits.
The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)
The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.
