Charles Magnussen Quotes

God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises. ~ Charles Spurgeon

He had always found hope harder to deal with than despair. Despair didn't get disappointed. ~ K.J. Charles

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on. ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne

V has finally learned that sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice. And even when it's not, those around you become uncomfortable because they think you are wise. ~ Charles Frazier

To copy faults is want of sense. ~ Charles Churchill

My favourite hiding place was in the world of Charles Dickens. I knew every word he had ever cared to collect in a novel by heart. The sentences formed in my mind before my eyes could skim through the letters. ~ Anna Jane Greenville

The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution. ~ Charles P. Issawi

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business. ~ Charles Roven

Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life. ~ Charles Godfrey Leland

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives. ~ Charles A. Murray

How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied. And ~ Sidney Sheldon

My people shall dwell in quiet resting places. Isaiah 32:18 Peace and rest belong not to the unregenerate, they are the peculiar possession of the Lord's people, and of them only. The God of Peace gives perfect peace to those whose hearts are stayed upon him. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. ~ Charles Colson

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ~ Charles William Eliot

I am vulnerable, but I am confident enough in myself and in you to expose my vulnerability. ~ Charles N. Seashore

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer. ~ Charles Spurgeon

She sighed. Ignatius, do you know what the opposite of love is?
Hate, I said.
Despair, Sister said. Despair is the opposite of love. ~ Charles D'Ambrosio

When we believe, trust, and take direction from our fears, we never see our inner light. When we choose not to believe, that light seems, like magic, to appear. ~ Charles F. Glassman

If it wasn't for seasickness, all the world would be sailors! ~ Charles Darwin

He brought in the bread, cheese, and beer, with many high encomiums upon their excellence. ~ Charles Dickens

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything. ~ Charles McCabe

Mr. Micawber pressed my hand, and groaned, and afterwards shed tears. I was greatly touched, and disappointed too, for I had expected that we should be quite gay on this happy and long-looked-for occasion. But Mr. and Mrs. Micawber were so used to their old difficulties, I think, that they felt quite shipwrecked when they came to consider that they were released from them. All their elasticity was departed, and I never saw them half so wretched as on this night; insomuch that when the bell rang, and Mr. Micawber walked with me to the lodge, and parted from me there with a blessing, I felt quite afraid to leave him by himself, he was so profoundly miserable. ~ Charles Dickens

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

The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring. ~ Charles F. Glassman

I refuse to argue with you, Charles! You're my partner! Your job is to iron my shirts and cook my omelettes, not boss me around! ~ Lemony Snicket

I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics. ~ Charles Koppelman

Workaholics are addicted to activity; super achievers are committed to results. ~ Charles Garfield

New Day ... new opportunity to be grateful for what we have, not bitter for what we don't. ~ Charles F. Glassman

This, then, is my choice:
I can allow the events of my life to happen to me.
Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure. ~ Charles Yu

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

You shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,
love means eventual pain
victory means eventual defeat
grace means eventual slovenliness,
there's no way
out ... you see, you
understand? ~ Charles Bukowski

The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is no explanation. It has not the character of a physical law and is therefore utterly useless. It foretells nothing because we know nothing of the will of the Deity, how it acts and whether constant or inconstant like that of man. ~ Charles Darwin

Gods, the pamphlets asserted, were not supernatural beings, but tenuously living things, like ethereal plants, that evolved in concert with the human species. We were simply their medium - our brains and flesh the soil in which they sprouted and grew. ~ Robert Charles Wilson

The glory of God is a man fully alive, and the life of a man consists in beholding God. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

I said, 'I don't like the way you look.'
Quincy stopped his work. He said, 'Are you talking to me, runt?'
I said, 'Yes, and I will say it again. I don't like the way you look and I don't like the way you are cutting up that turkey. I hope you go to jail. My lawyer will not help you. ~ Charles Portis

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep. ~ Charles M. Schulz

The subject of Prison Discipline is one of the highest importance to any community; and that in her sweeping reform and bright example to other countries on this head, America has shown great wisdom, great benevolence, and exalted policy. In contrasting her system with that which we have modelled upon it, I merely seek to show that with all its drawbacks, ours has some advantages of its own. ~ Charles Dickens

Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless.
On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets and pulled out the many bundles of hundreds and threw them on the bedspread. If you were honest and stupid, you worked a couple of lifetimes for that kind of money, doled out by the hour in pocket-change amounts by asswipe bosses. ~ Charles Frazier

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk. ~ Charles Pollock

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher. ~ Christopher McDougall