Edith Hamilton Quotes

Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.

Edith Hamilton

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• Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Choose

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Nice

• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Mom
  • New
  • Times Square

• I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Fun
  • Control
  • Find

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• Cussing ain't for everybody.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Everybody

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Powerful

• I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Day

• I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Insecurity

• In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Live

• What is the appetite for truth in the Trump White House? That's not a question about the untrue things the president says. It's about the level of truth the system expects.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Truth
  • House
  • Question

• Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Perfect
  • Sports
  • Strength

• Happiness is The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life affording them scope.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • Exercise
  • Excellence