Quotes About Charles Wallace

#1. We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said.
"But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace.
Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. "On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.

Madeleine L'Engle

#3. Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.

Meg Cabot

#5. Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

{The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin, though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866).}

Herbert Spencer

#8. Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

Nelson Goodman

#9. Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

Charles Darwin

#10. The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#11. I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

Saul Leiter

#12. Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

Thomas Szasz

#13. I learned the hard way that if you heard you were one thing enough times, eventually you had no option but to start believing it.

Jay Crownover

#14. I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

Roger Stone

#15. If you look at U.S. Congress, 80 percent of them have never left the U.S.A., so I'm not surprised about Russophobia in Congress.

Sergei Lavrov

#16. Charles Tavis knows what James Incandenza could not have cared about less: the key to the successful administration of a top-level junior tennis academy lies in cultivating a kind of reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry.

David Foster Wallace

#17. My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

Leon Panetta