Charles W. Colson
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COLSON Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the... COLSON WHITEHEAD You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ... COLSON WHITEHEAD The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of ... COLSON WHITEHEAD CHUCK COLSON As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some ... COLSON WHITEHEAD It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing i... COLSON WHITEHEAD A firefly blinked into existence, drew half a word in the air. Then gone. A black bug secret in the ... COLSON WHITEHEAD memory has a palette and broad brush. COLSON WHITEHEAD in the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation. COLSON WHITEHEAD Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of ... COLSON WHITEHEAD Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days? COLSON WHITEHEAD CHUCK COLSON I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've sp... COLSON WHITEHEAD Three of those are in the Elk Mound School District. We don't know where all these people are coming... BOB COLSON I'm not sure that's a good place to be, but we're there. BOB COLSON The Elk Mound School District will not reflect the state trend. BOB COLSON And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all... COLSON WHITEHEAD There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to ... COLSON WHITEHEAD see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted ... COLSON WHITEHEAD CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON When black blood was money, the savvy businessman knew to open the vein. COLSON WHITEHEAD High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin. COLSON WHITEHEAD The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their id... COLSON WHITEHEAD How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by... COLSON WHITEHEAD One reason we've been in a lot of close games is that we've had a problem coming out early in games ... CHARLIE COLSON Brock does so many things well on and off the court. In practices he teaches, he communicates and he... CHARLIE COLSON The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester ... COLSON WHITEHEAD You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions. COLSON WHITEHEAD Hitting the billion dollar mark is the best incentive to keep going. The board of trustees understoo... DEAN COLSON All judges come with certain beliefs and life experiences and things like that. 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ED COLSON I think this is going to be an extremely enjoyable event and something totally different for our com... ED COLSON I couldn't be more excited about this. We worked for two years to have one of the Washington, D.C., ... ED COLSON We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. COLSON WHITEHEAD A monster is a person who has stopped pretending. COLSON WHITEHEAD I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom. COLSON WHITEHEAD Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up cl... COLSON WHITEHEAD He imagined a town called A. Around the communal fire they’re shaping arrowheads and carving tribu... COLSON WHITEHEAD I feel about my phone the way horror-movie ventriloquists feel about their dummies: It's smarter tha... COLSON WHITEHEAD We are 45 minutes from an airport and four hours from L.A.. We've got a good-natured FedEx driver wh... KAMREN COLSON It was a great opportunity to show what can be done from a remote location. KAMREN COLSON It's not the biggest project we've ever done but it is the most exclusive. KAMREN COLSON He gave me the impression he took us seriously. KAMREN COLSON This is a way to help us grow and show people what we're capable of from our location. We sometimes ... KAMREN COLSON It's such an exclusive audience. It seems outrageous that all the people going to the Oscars will be... KAMREN COLSON But it's one of the most exclusive in terms of the audience that will be holding it in their hands, ... KAMREN COLSON We were pleasantly surprised - it's a dream come true for all of us. Historically, the provider of t... KAMREN COLSON Right away at the meeting they said they appreciated our initiative and were pleased with our submis... KAMREN COLSON The loneliness is the worst, because this knowledge is something that cannot be shared, only suffere... 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COLSON WHITEHEAD The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone. COLSON WHITEHEAD Live every minute as if you are late for the last train. COLSON WHITEHEAD New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. COLSON WHITEHEAD Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. COLSON WHITEHEAD IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise. COLSON WHITEHEAD We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. COLSON WHITEHEAD But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...COLSON WHITEHEAD He told her that every one of her enemies, all the masters and overseers of her suffering, would be ... 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COLSON WHITEHEAD Weeks passed, but my Word-A-Day Calendar was stuck on "motherfucker. COLSON WHITEHEAD CHARLES W. CHESNUTT CHARLES W. LEADBEATER CHARLES W. CHESNUTT CHARLES W. ELIOT CHARLES W. ELIOT The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent n... CHARLES W. PICKERING CHARLES W. CHESNUTT CHARLES W. CHESNUTT Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but al... CHARLES W. PICKERING CHARLES W. ELIOT CHARLES W. CHESNUTT CHARLES W. CHESNUTT The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong ... CHARLES W. TOBEY CHARLES W. ELIOT Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profo... CHARLES W. MAYO CHARLES W. CHESNUTT In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announc... CHARLES W. PICKERING CHARLES W. ELIOT If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body,... CHARLES W. PICKERING Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to con... CHARLES W. PICKERING CHARLES W. ELIOT CHARLES W. ELIOT CHARLES W. ELIOT CHARLES W. ELIOT The essence of tragedy is to know the end. CHARLES W. FERGUSON CHARLES W. ELIOT CHARLES W. CHESNUTT CHARLES W. CHESNUTT America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the worl... CHARLES W. PICKERING A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant... CHARLES W. PICKERING The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies... CHARLES W. PICKERING Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite in... CHARLES W. 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My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison d... 
I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put... 
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'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the... 
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My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing thes... 
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I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. Wha... 
I realized my hands were in my pockets. He couldn't hold one even if he wanted to. Not unless he act... 
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth.... 
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge... 
Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who... 
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You are what you share. 
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Poetry is the language of feeling. 
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. 
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. 
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