Immordino Hamilton Quotes

I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it. ~ Jane Hamilton

war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest. ~ Peter F. Hamilton

Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again. ~ Tyler Hamilton

By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate. ~ Alexander Hamilton

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. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. ~ Alexander Hamilton

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere. ~ Edith Hamilton

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest ... ~ Alexander Hamilton

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself. ~ Jane Hamilton

What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods. ~ Nancy Isenberg

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom) ~ Edith Hamilton

The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related. ~ George Hamilton

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write. ~ Jane Hamilton

We're all selfish. It's an age thing. We go spotty, disobedient and daft. But most of all, we go selfish ~ Ruth Hamilton

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

Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Your path is yours alone. And if it's the path less traveled, that's absolutely fine. The world doesn't need more conformists. The world needs more people who create and question and search. ~ Laird Hamilton

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone. ~ Edith Hamilton

I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then. ~ Nigel Hamilton

Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed. ~ Peter F. Hamilton

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

People go away and they don't come back. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. ~ Alexander Hamilton

His lips brushed my cheek, and I found it hard to concentrate."I lied earlier."
"About what."
His hands slid to my lower back."When I said you looked great? I wasn't completely honest."
That was not what I expected. I turned my head the slightest and then bit back a gasp. Our mouths were centimeters apart and I thought about Brit's certainty that he would kiss me tonight. I forced my tongue to work."You don't think I look great?"
"No,"he said, his expression serious as one hand followed the line of my spine, resting below the edges of my hair. He lowered his head so that his temple pressed against mine.
"You look beautiful tonight."
My breath caught."Thank you. ~ J. Lynn

I might know better than anyone the distance between legends and the truth, that stories were not always told whole. The monsters in them were less fierce in reality, the heroes less pure, the Djinn more complicated. But there were some things you didn't prod at to find out if their teeth were really as big as the stories said. Because on the off-chance that the stories were really true, you were about to lose a finger. ~ Alwyn Hamilton

We were sailing on a sea of sand. ~ Alwyn Hamilton

In the stories, it was always the monster who lost. But I knew better than anyone that stories and truth weren't the same thing. ~ Alwyn Hamilton

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

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a him a good reason to do it.- Anita Blake ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate. ~ Alexander Hamilton

Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy. ~ George Hamilton

This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them. ~ Alexander Hamilton

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus? ~ William Rowan Hamilton

We all want to be in the room where it happens, we want to be part of the things that matter to us, but no two people have the exact same collection of things that matter. Nowadays, I don't so much want to be in the room where it happens, but I do really want to help other people choose the right rooms, and help them realize that they really are a part of things that matter. Because when we feel like none of the rooms we are in matter, that's when we're really lost. ~ Hank Green

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone. ~ George Hamilton

I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers? ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened. ~ Ron Chernow

Good God, you don't give up."
"Nope."
I laughed, couldn't help it, and his
smile spread in response to the sound.
"I'm sure there are plenty of girls who
want to go out on a date with you."
"There are."
"Wow. Modest aren't you?"
"Why should I be?" he shot back.
"And I want to go out on a date with you.
Not them. ~ J. Lynn