W. D. Hamilton Quotes

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

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

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

Sometimes your best isn't good enough

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

There needs to be a reason to go, so you go deeper into whatever place you're visiting to find those unforgettable experiences.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead.

The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)

Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?