H.W. Charles Quotes

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities.

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble