Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes

I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason.

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• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  

  Quintilian
  • Parents
  • Alone
  • Educated

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Me
  • Temptation

• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Situation
  • Stress
  • Survival

• You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Perception
  • Media

• Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Free
  • Story
  • Consistency

• Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Life
  • Country
  • Like

• In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Try
  • Calm
  • Forest

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Good
  • Successful

• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Library
  • Vanity

• In his Gospel, St. John, through long and deep contemplation, acknowledges Jesus to be the Logos of God. In his epistles he points entirely away from himself toward Christ. Finally, in the Apocalypse, in the vision of the Lamb of God, Old and New Testaments are united, and the whole drama of salvation is summed up.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• It is necessary to show that there is nothing so little known as the above rules, nothing more difficult to practice, or nothing more useful and universal.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Practice

• There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Nature

• They do not want people committing violence, either in their community or in the name of their faith, and so some of our most productive relationships are with people who see things and tell us things who happen to be Muslim.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Faith
  • Community

• Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • History
  • Musical
  • Georgia

• I know a lot of people think L.A. and they see a picture in their head, but those people obviously don't know me, because I sit on a couch every day. That's my idea of a good time - just being in a sweat suit.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

  

  John Constable
  • World
  • Picture
  • Ambition

• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • House
  • Hate
  • Reason

• Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • She
  • True

• I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Reason
  • Picture