Charles Wilkes Quotes

#1. Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.

Stephen Hunter

#2. Courage cannot be gifted to you, but it is a choice you make.

Vishwas Chavan

#3. Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Ian McEwan

#4. Catechesis is the church's ministry of grounding and growing God's people in the Gospel and its implications for doctrine, devotion, duty, and delight.

J.I. Packer

#5. I like pancakes.

Brandon Mull

#6. I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

Bobby Cannavale

#7. If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.

Bryant McGill

#8. A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete

John Steinbeck

#9. Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.

Mathew Staver

#10. Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Compton Mackenzie

#11. I'm not good with hospitals. The endless buildings, trees dotted around like apologies, and inside, it's job functions you can't understand and that air of incomprehensible busyness. Curtained-off beds and death settling like falling snow.

Harry Bingham

#12. Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

Zubin Mehta

#13. Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

William Shakespeare

#14. Empowerment means that you have the power or authority to do something. Someone has given you, or you have given yourself the authority and/or permission to move forward on a particular task.

Shantera Chatman