Nat Hentoff Quotes

I've never met anybody quite like Bill Shawn. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.

Nat Hentoff

• Conscious
• Created
• Aura

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • American
  • Style
  • Conscious

• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Conscious

• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Freedom
  • Blind
  • Conscious

• It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Different
  • Present
  • Nothing

• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Conscious
  • Become

• President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Way
  • President
  • Created

• I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Over the next several days, the design will be updated to reflect several changes, and new presentation materials will be created.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Design
  • Changes
  • Created

• We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Lives
  • Result
  • Conscious

• The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
  • Nature

• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
  • Conscious

• an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Conscious

• Everything in your world is created by what you think.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Everything
  • Created

• Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Remember
  • Progress
  • Conscious

• A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Conscious

• My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Pain

• All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Art
  • Power
  • Faith

• If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Change
  • Spiritual
  • Conscious

• I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Love
  • Problem

• Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Time
  • Precious
  • Limited

• You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Doubt
  • Halloween
  • Compliment

• Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.

  

  Paul Sadler
  • Character
  • Culture
  • Election

• I've never met anybody quite like Bill Shawn. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Conscious
  • Created
  • Aura