W. D. Hamilton Quotes

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

There is hope. You can do it. Start now.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Your looks do not define who you are.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.

I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder