W. D. Hamilton Quotes

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

I enjoy my anger, it’s the only hobby I have.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency.

It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it.

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

It was my 44th win [in Monaco]; 44 is my race number; and it's been my number since I was 8. And it's my family's number as well. So it was a special day, for sure.

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.'

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.