H.W. Charles Quotes

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

My mind reels with sarcastic replies.

Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Never, ever, ever give up.

No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Now you have to decide whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.

It is good to love the unknown.