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Quotes About Charge

A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
~ Tonny K. Brown
If you think I suddenly trust you, Bartimeaus —" "Oh, don't trust me , whatever you do. Trust your summons. I'm charged to keep you safe at this point, aren't I?
~ Jonathan Stroud
I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.
~ Emmylou Harris
She [Virginia] can have no right, years after all this has been settled, to come into a court of chancery to charge that her own conduct has been a wrong and a fraud.
~ Eric J. Wittenberg
Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But because of Jesus there is hope...Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father.
~ Eric Mason
But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.
~ Robert Walpole
The charge that liberal candidates don't connect with or understand the values and beliefs of regular Americans is embedded in old epithets like 'limousine liberal,' which I first heard aimed at New York Mayor John Lindsay in 1969.
~ Jeff Greenfield
I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charge.
~ Chris Cornell
May in Varanasi. 25° and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the Balkans while India and Pakistan threaten one another with nukes. Dead From the Waist Down on MTV. The humidity's making me horny and mad. I miss Robin. In his new book, Ken Wilbur calls it skin hunger. I feel like I'm building up a charge. Monsoon's on its way.
~ Grant Morrison
Memory is stored in neurons—interactive memory, carried in charge and potential, then downloaded to chemical storage in cells, then downloaded to molecular level. Stored in introns of individual cells.
~ Greg Bear
Well, I tapped into maybe arguably the worst rule in basketball. I wish they would just take it out or amend it greatly. It's a terrible rule, block or charge. I shouldn't be able to stand there and it's a foul. Come on!
~ Rex Chapman
Too many people in charge at ESPN, for my taste, were a little too fearful. It's a Disney network. There are just certain boundaries that you can't even tiptoe along.
~ Skip Bayless
And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.
~ Eric Cantor
I enjoy just being a producer and a home maker. I love being in charge. I love being the tortured and tormented soul. I am a Piscean. I enjoy the real-life drama fully.
~ Pooja Bhatt
Out there in the silent prairie with only the perpetual wind for music and he tells us to charge. Ain't there an old story about a windmill?
~ Sebastian Barry
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
~ Jasper Fforde
The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
~ Rita Rudner
There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.
~ Fred Hoyle
The one-horned rhinoceros, or "rhino," washes in a forest stream. Rhinos are not usually dangerous. But because they do not see well, they sometimes charge at things by mistake. A loud noise will usually stop them.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
He charged down the hill. He leaped to his
~ Mary Pope Osborne
On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.
~ Mary Shelley
His voice was quite flat, dull, almost. 'You were prepared to take chances - once.' 'Myself, yes. But this was Philippe. I had no right to take a chance on Philippe. I didn't dare. He was my charge - my duty.' The miserable words sounded priggish and unutterably absurd. 'I - I was all he had. Besides that, it couldn't be allowed to matter.' 'What couldn't.' 'That you were all I had.
~ Mary Stewart
story of a philosopher who runs when a bear charges him and his friend.
~ Matt Ridley
General" stands here for the individual who goes into action, whether freely or forcedly. Since anarchy offers him an especially favorable charge, this type is permanent today. Thus, "general" has a universal rather than a special meaning. It can be replaced ad libitum. It refers not to a profession but to a condition. The latter may also crop up in a coolie, in which case it is particularly effective.
~ Ernst Junger