H.W. Charles Quotes
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men
Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.
I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.
The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.
I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.
Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.
This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
