Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
  • Possible

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Learned

• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • True
  • Suffering

• On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Planet
  • Most

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Community

• Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Obstacles

• I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.

  

  Jason Chaffetz
  • Respect

• I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Good

• I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Reality

• To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • Life
  • Respect