Irving Kristol Quotes
Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.
Quotes to Explore
-
There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
-
It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
-
I am the original 'Material Girl.'
-
Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
-
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
-
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
-
When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
-
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
-
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
-
I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
-
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
-
I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
-
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
-
Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
-
My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
-
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
-
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
-
A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
-
You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.
-
I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
-
Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
-
Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.
-
...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
-
Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.
