W. D. Hamilton Quotes

When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.

If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.

My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you.

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

Ironically, I like working with people.

I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.

Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

Isn't the Almighty always saying something, girl? Speaking through everything created, whispering in your hopes and dreams. Urging you to get on with business?

I'm the dad, the cleanup guy. I deal with the bigger messes. But I also provide more adventures and excitement. It works out.