W. D. Hamilton Quotes

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.

People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.

Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

Here sir, the people govern.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

A promise must never be broken.

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

I got what I wanted. I wanted a win.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

I want to crush everyone. I want to outsmart everyone.

The best lies are always at least partially true.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.