H.W. Charles Quotes

The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

If you want to learn about money, learn from somebody who has a lot of it.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

All but God is changing day by day.

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

The world is God's world, after all.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.