W. D. Hamilton Quotes

Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

We're making a list." "And checking it twice." Edward shook his head.

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he?" Deputy Coltrain asked. I smiled, not sweetly. "He promised not to.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Democracy fascinates me.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids.

I've tried lots with my hair. Obviously I used to have it as a number one all over, super easy, but then I started to grow it out. I had an afro and then I got rid of the sides.

I don't feel that any of my greatness has been covered over.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

When you have kids, I think it makes them feel safer and be in a space to grow more and recognize patterns when routines exist.

When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.

Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.