Charged Quotes

• Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Family
  • Guilty
  • Definition

• If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.

  

  Jared Sparks
  • Man
  • Title
  • Charged

• If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.

  

  Edmund Campion
  • Exposure
  • Charged
  • Indecent

• This was a very intense game. I thought both teams played their hearts out. In a very charged atmosphere, I thought both teams played well at times and not so well at times.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Played
  • Atmosphere
  • Teams

• ...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Charged

• To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Sin
  • Guilty

• They are charged with trespassing, which means being on your own land when somebody else wants it.

  

  Aurora Levins Morales
  • Wants
  • Charged
  • Trespassing

• It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.

  

  Merrick Garland
  • Intelligence
  • National
  • Gathering

• When I became the NASA administrator - or before I became the NASA administrator - Barack Obama charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.

  

  Charles Bolden
  • Barack Obama
  • Became
  • NASA

• It is difficult today to be a professional athlete. It's difficult when you're charged with this for anyone, but especially difficult if you are a professional athlete.

  

  Alan Johnson
  • Difficult
  • Athlete
  • Charged

• Because I felt so different myself. As if I were charged with cool electricity that washed me down inside and out and at the same time scared me and relieved me. That’s fancy as hell, isn’t it? But it’s fancy because it’s so and not because I want to dress it up for you.

  

  Elliott Chaze
  • Dress
  • Fancy
  • Electricity

• True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • True
  • Error
  • False

• Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  

  Garry Robbins
  • Murder
  • Command
  • Beens

• If we think about folk forms, they belong to disenfranchised people, people who have not been allowed access to the poetry of literature or the leisure time that comes with the pursuit of poetry. Instead, this is ceremony. This is a highly charged way to create a sacred space that isn't necessarily about God, but is about human experience at its most profound levels - whether that's love or grief, separation, or homeland. All are altered states.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • God
  • Love
  • Poetry

• Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Particular
  • Charged
  • Tranquillity

• The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Death
  • Wonder
  • Grace

• How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Pay
  • Fortune
  • Debt

• It didn't happen the way she was being charged

  

  Michael Baden
  • Happen
  • Charged

• When I have a new idea, I'm charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don't have the patience to wait for stars.

  

  Ram Gopal Varma
  • Patience
  • Simply
  • Immediately

• Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Charged

• It seemed to me - articulated in words of today - that not only did she know how to put things well but she was developing a gift that I was already familiar with: more effectively than she had as a child, she took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected with energy. But I also realized, with pleasure, that, as soon as she began to do this, I felt able to do the same, and I tried and it came easily.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Words
  • Energy
  • Child