H.W. Charles Quotes

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

There still might be a place for us somewhere.

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

I have fallen in love with all sorts of girls and I fully intend to go on doing so.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.