W. D. Hamilton Quotes

Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.

My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time.

Not only am I a musician, but I'm a businessman and a family man.

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.

George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick prizes would fall out of him.

Jesse Ventura took American politics and raised it to the level of professional wrestling.

They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.

If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake.

Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

The end...is just the beginning

Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.

That's really what ultimately matters - the emotions and feelings that you experienced and people around [whom] you experienced [them].

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love and it's a part of me.

You fall off the horse and you get back on.

I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

My belief is where I get my strength. When I'm struggling with something, I can go to him for help and I'm excited to share that.

I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

I'm actually not star-struck... I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

My favourite setting are England, because I was born here and love it, and Spain, because it's fabulous and so romantic.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet