H.W. Charles Quotes

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them.

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.

When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

The old echoes are long in dying.

We are religious by nature.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

It is important that when we come to die we have nothing to do but die.