Charles Colson Quotes

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Charles Colson

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Man

• It's those damn critics again.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Again
  • Damn

• I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Day
  • Daily
  • Changes

• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Time
  • Long
  • Change

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Technology
  • Better

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Day
  • Balance

• I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Violence
  • Racial

• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Simple
  • Possible
  • Complexity

• We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Want
  • Words
  • Comfort

• The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Event
  • Coal
  • Milestone

• I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Problem
  • Moral

• I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • War
  • Think
  • Serious

• I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • School
  • Today

• Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.

  

  Lilli Palmer
  • People
  • Personalities
  • Arrivals

• If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Truth
  • Dream
  • Alone

• If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Long
  • Power
  • Training

• The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

  

  Charles Colson