H.W. Charles Quotes

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need.

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter.

Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

You are in every line I have ever read.

For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.