Irving Kristol Quotes

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

Irving Kristol

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• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

  

  Iman
  • Want
  • Create
  • Follow

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Everything's so accelerated now.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Everything
  • Now

• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Die

• If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Words

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • World
  • Real
  • Training

• I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Girl
  • Bond

• You can't impose a legacy.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • You
  • Legacy
  • Impose

• My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Grandmother
  • Birthday
  • Cards

• I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Win
  • Rather
  • Cut

• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Lost
  • Confused
  • Admit

• If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Mother
  • Brave

• I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Always

• I scare the neighbors, the kids... They don't come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Kids
  • House
  • Come

• I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Dream
  • Political

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• I have my detractors, no doubt about it. I look at it as a compliment.

  

  Ken Harrelson
  • Doubt

• I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.

  

  Nimrat Kaur
  • Mother
  • Training
  • Sing

• Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

  

  Irving Kristol