Top 23 Douthat Quotes
#1. The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.
Ross Douthat
#2. It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.
James Ellroy
#3. No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.
Ross Douthat
#4. The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.
Ross Douthat
#6. I can't crack jokes because I don't have any.
Rene Redzepi
#7. What a society believes and teaches about the link between sex, marriage and procreation has major implications for how, when and whether people couple, marry and raise children, which in turn has implications for every other societal arrangement as well.
Ross Douthat
#8. The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.
Ross Douthat
#9. You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic.
Ross Douthat
#10. Whether the Koran is of eternity
I don't ask about that
That it is the book of books
I believe it to be so as muslim's duty.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#11. quietly practiced a street twang. I tried to conjure up all the female badasses I've seen in the movies
Mara Jacobs
#12. Those guards are going to be all sorts of pissed when they find out they've been following a bunny rabbit.
H.M. Ward
#13. However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts is the kind of conceit that only, well, an intellectual could possibly believe.
Ross Douthat
#14. She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
Juvenal
#15. In an age of stagnant or declining birthrates, too, these communities' willingness to heed the admonition to be fruitful and multiply has led to speculation about what the demographer Philip Longman calls the survival of the godliest.
Ross Douthat
#16. Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren
#17. And the whole mess had been made possible by middle America's relentless appetite - for bigger houses, bigger portfolios, bigger government programs, bigger everything, and damn the long-term cost.
Ross Douthat
#18. Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna ... love you ... grrr?' Olivia to Annalia
Kresley Cole
#19. I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.
Ali Smith
#20. In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.
Ernest Gaines
#21. Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.
Ross Douthat
#22. The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
Hugh Mackay
#23. America's problem isn't too much religion or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place.
Ross Douthat
