Hamerton Quotes

#1. Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#2. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Robert Downey Jr.

#3. And with trembling, excited hands she put the coveted stockings under Ursula's pillow.
'One gets the greatest joy of all out of really lovely stockings,' said Ursula.
'One does,' replied Gudrun; 'the greatest joy of all.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. I said I'll need to get my nose straightened one day so that I can breathe properly and that was translated by the press into me having it done.

Mike Tindall

#5. We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#6. You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#7. The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#8. Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#9. The only good thing, is that the cold wakes her up and she doesn't have to struggle to stay conscious. The bad thing, is that the numbness is fading away now, and her whole body is racked with pain.

Amy Lunderman

#10. The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#11. If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.
- Zarost

Greg Hamerton

#12. Thinking ... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas

Rudolf Steiner

#13. How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument? - Zarost

Greg Hamerton

#14. Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#15. Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#16. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#17. Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#18. Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#19. All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#20. To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

Susannah Cahalan

#21. Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#22. It's not that God won't give you more than you can handle, but that God will help you handle all that you've been given. This

Adam Hamilton

#23. I've always taken direction pretty well.

Victoria Justice

#24. There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#25. Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#26. Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power.

David Brooks

#27. Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#28. Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#29. The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#30. As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#31. Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#32. Apocalypse is the lens through which we view international politics because it is the fons et origo of the concept of history and historiography. Were it not for apocalypse, we would not have the categories of mind with which to ask the questions of meaning and adequacy of interpretation. M

Robert Hamerton-Kelly

#33. In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#34. I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#35. The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#36. People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#37. If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.

Barack Obama

#38. I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.

Dave Goldberg

#39. Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#40. Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.
- Zarost

Greg Hamerton