H.W. Charles Quotes

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.

In thinking about His many blessings, you view God's work from a new perspective.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

I hate to lose. And when I do lose, I don't lose the lesson, I don't miss the message.

One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.

One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.

You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits.

Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.

Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more.