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

• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Earth
  • Funny
  • Worry

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

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Why
  • Bad

• My fat never made me less money.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Money
  • Fat

• Drawing identity from any area other than the source of life is a spiritual death sentence, and worse, it's contagious, because it gives birth to tribalism. However, when we return to our central identity of image – bearers designed to receive love from and reflect love to others, we are naturally invited to shed all of the unloving, fear – based tribal behaviors that come from loyalty to the label.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fear

• What was the nature of the answers, the solutions, that Jonah caused us to develop? They all had one thing in common. They all made common sense, and at the same time, they flew directly in the face of everything I’d ever learned. Would we have had the courage to try to implement them if it weren’t for the fact that we’d had to sweat to construct them? Most probably not. If it weren’t for the conviction that we gained in the struggle—for the ownership that we developed in the process—I don’t think we’d actually have had the guts to put our solutions into practice.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Practice
  • Learned
  • Solutions

• And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Share
  • Exciting

• 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