W. D. Hamilton Quotes

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

The loony tuners are at it again. The cost of doing business in Oakland is already about the highest in the state. Compared with other cities, adoption of the proposed

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.

o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.

The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

Consummated science is positively humble.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?

[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.

Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else."Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

The best defense is a confusing offense.

Can the sarcasm, ' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

And didst thou imbibe mighty potions from the fruit of the grape (...)? And hast thou one Ache, this morning (...) appertaining unto Head, and much repentance in thy Soul forsooth?

I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first, " I objected without thinking.

I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.

We were going to get Ahmed back. And Rahim back. And Shazad. And Delila. And all the others who had been captured. And we were going to end this.

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

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.No. 75

If you boiled down the gospel to one word, it would be love.

Jesus consistently put people before rules.

We share the gospel with others because we believe the gospel is not just about heaven, but about having life even here on earth.

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.

For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.

I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs.

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.