Charged Quotes

293 quotes by 250 authors

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be… — Abraham Lincoln
As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though… — Elwyn Brooks White
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and… — William S. Burroughs
I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves. — Woody Allen
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves
When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, â€¦ Then I am charged with untold… — Walt Whitman
So,â€ Wanda cried, â€œa woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops. — Tim Dorsey
...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who… — Marcus Luttrell
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A… — Rick Riordan
That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? — Terry Pratchett
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives. — Frank Herbert
All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Percy!â€ he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If youâ€™ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and… — Rick Riordan
It is our inward journey that leads us through time â€“ forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us… — Eudora Welty
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,… — Michael Pollan
This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted. — James A. Baldwin

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