Charles H Parkhurst Quotes

#1. Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

Jeff Baxter

#2. And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

Pablo Neruda

#3. The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#4. You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"A yes or no one.

Todd Morr

#5. Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#6. Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#7. Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#8. Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#9. Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#10. Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#11. Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#12. Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#13. Character is,for the most part simply habit become fixed.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#14. Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

Pam Grier

#15. Instincts are things that you know but can not, as of yet, articulate

William James Moore

#16. Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#17. As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Alan Moore

#18. There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.

Thomas Merton

#19. Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#20. The old echoes are long in dying.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#21. And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#22. Is it okay to lie in order to be happy?

A.S. King

#23. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#24. When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Robert Rodriguez

#25. So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#26. Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#27. The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#28. A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

Del Howison

#29. The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#30. There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.

Mark Driscoll

#31. All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#32. The world more often rewards outward signs of merit than merit itself.

La Rochefoucaul

#33. Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

James McGreevey

#34. Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#35. Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#36. Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Andy Rooney

#37. Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#38. My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#39. There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#40. Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Charles Henry Parkhurst