Alexander Hamilton Quotes

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Alexander Hamilton

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Better
  • Soup
  • Roses

• Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Age
  • Change
  • Die

• My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Words

• I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Need
  • Rules
  • Immigration

• Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Education

• In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Low-Key

• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Painting
  • Creative
  • Soup

• Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Just
  • Times
  • Juice

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Live
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Acting
  • Expression
  • Once

• I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Up
  • Smile
  • Jump

• The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Art

• With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

  

  Erik Qualman
  • Growing
  • Social
  • Acquaintance

• Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

  

  Colin McRae
  • Car
  • Drivers

• Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that's all he could do for me.

  

  Adam Elliott
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
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• Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

  

  Alexander Hamilton