Nat Hentoff Quotes

I think one thing we share with my wife is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

Nat Hentoff

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• When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Book
  • Clock
  • Finishing

• The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Differences
  • Pie
  • Blur

• I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • World
  • Power
  • Me

• Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animals
  • Cousins
  • Zoo

• I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Better

• I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Time
  • Stronger
  • Treasure

• I am not born to just become an actor.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Actor
  • Born

• There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Up
  • Part
  • Species

• If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Commitment

• If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • American

• I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Excuse

• In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

  

  Paco Underhill
  • Time
  • Real

• To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • She

• The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

  

  William R. Alger
  • May
  • Devil
  • Bullied

• His breath is so bad why every time he smokes he blows onion rings.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Why
  • Bad

• One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Time
  • Right
  • Sky

• Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Brothers
  • Tomb
  • Radiance

• ... the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Good
  • American
  • Lying

• Well, back to the drawing board.

  

  Peter Arno
  • Drawing
  • Wells
  • Boards

• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Long
  • Real
  • Book

• Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace...and care properly for this planet we all share.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Kindness
  • Share
  • Planet

• I think one thing we share with my wife is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

  

  Nat Hentoff
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  • My Wife
  • Bill Clinton