Charles Yerkes Quotes

Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive because it could be used to explain everything, and if only we lived by its tenets, everything would be perfect. ~ Charles Stross

He had the desperation, not the courage, to be himself. Once you do that, you can't go wrong, because you can't make any mistakes when people love you for being yourself. But for Kurt, it didn't matter that other people loved him; he simply didn't love himself enough. ~ Charles R. Cross

The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has to make, for it fundamentally affects the way readers will respond, emotionally and morally, to the fictional characters and their actions. The story of an adultery, for instance - any adultery - will affect us differently according to whether it is presented primarily from the point of view of the unfaithful person, or the injured spouse, or the lover - or as observed by some fourth party. Madame Bovary narrated mainly from the point of view of Charles Bovary would be a very different book from the one we know. ~ David Lodge

He created a craving. And that craving, it turns out, is what makes cues and rewards work. That craving is what powers the habit loop. ~ Charles Duhigg

When a man is in a violent hurry to get on, and has a specific object in view, the attainment of which depends on the completion of his journey, the difficulties which interpose themselves in his way appear not only to be innumerable, but to have been called into existence especially for the occasion. The ~ Charles Dickens

The amazing thing about transplantation, aside from the fact that it worked, was that it allowed people to feel again. The thing I liked best about my previous life was the first smile when a patient woke up. Because with that smile, I knew that I hadn't simply given that persona new pump, I had given him or her a new pump that allowed that person to live, to express emotion. It was the smile, even more than the first beat of the heart, that told me it had worked. ~ Charles Martin

To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply. ~ Charles Baudelaire

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies. ~ Charles Spurgeon

It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither. ~ Charles Dickens

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free. ~ Charles Bukowski

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food. ~ Charles M. Schulz

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us. ~ Charles Darwin

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever. ~ Charles Spurgeon

We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely. ~ Charles Lindbergh

Life is made of so many partings welded together ~ Charles Dickens

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. ~ Charles Lyell

On Easter Monday there was a great display of fireworks from the Castle of St. Angelo. We hired a room in an opposite house, and made our way, to our places, in good time, through a dense mob of people choking up the square in front, and all the avenues leading to it; and so loading the bridge by which the castle is approached, that it seemed ready to sink into the rapid Tiber below. There are statues on this bridge (execrable works), and, among them, great vessels full of burning tow were placed: glaring strangely on the faces of the crowd, and not less strangely on the stone counterfeits above them. The show began with a tremendous discharge of cannon; and then, for twenty minutes or half an hour, the whole castle was one incessant sheet of fire, and labyrinth of blazing wheels of every colour, size, and speed: while rockets streamed into the sky, not by ones or twos, or scores, but hundreds at a time. The concluding burst - the Girandola - was like the blowing up into the air of the whole massive castle, without smoke or dust. In half an hour afterwards, the immense concourse had dispersed; the moon was looking calmly down upon her wrinkled image in the river; and half - a - dozen men and boys with bits of lighted candle in their hands: moving here and there, in search of anything worth having, that might have been dropped in the press: had the whole scene to themselves. ~ Charles Dickens

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it. ~ Charles Stross

When you play chess alone it's always your move. ~ Charles Simic

Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and use your elbow to open the door? If yes, woe unto you. You're crazy. ~ Charles Frazier

Sometimes, the Lord may keep you waiting for His supplies that you may enjoy them all the better when they do come. He never is before His time, but He never is behind His time, though He may be behind your time. God will provide. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Employees work smarter and better when they believe they have more decisionmaking authority and when they believe their colleagues are committed to their success. A ~ Charles Duhigg

Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise. ~ Charles Stanley

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion. ~ Charles Yost

You can hold a knife to that black eye, as you run along. It'll keep the swelling down. ~ Charles Dickens

...children always wake after they have slept exactly as long as is good for them.. ~ Charles Kingsley

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Words are not the essence but the garments of prayer. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She stopped, then finally turned around, and looked at me. "Just because you've been in a war doesn't mean you've got a monopoly on shitty situations. And this is a shitty situation. So back to what I said before. Don't tell me what to do."(Sarah) ~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,
the most unwholesome of food. ~ Charles Lamb

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

How sweet the remembrance that inexhaustible mercy is waiting to be gracious to us, to restore our backslidings, and make our broken bones rejoice! ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other. ~ Charles Eisenstein

Because what you have to remember, if there's one thing, it's that everybody's human, that's the first thing they are, whether they're beautiful or not, or rich or poor, or actresses from the 1940s or Frank ... They're all humans, the first thing they are is human, do you see? Do you see, Charles? ~ Paul Murray

Presents, I often say, endear absents. ~ Charles Lamb

To conclude, dear Reader, the world of men is a noisy, testosterone-laden swirling vortex of bullshit. ~ Charles J. Orlando

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. ~ Charles Dickens

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes – that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens – that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their courses. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebud is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence – the fall of . . . leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. ~ Charles Dickens

British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any ~ Charles Dickens