Top 100 Hatch Quotes
#1. I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
Richard Hatch
#2. Now, space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, the smell of space when you open up the hatch is very distinct. It's kind of like a burning-metal smell, if you can imagine what that would smell like.
Scott Kelly
#3. And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
Paul Krugman
#4. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Orson Scott Card
#5. Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the proper discrimination of what judges are supposed to do, and the rest of the process should reflect this judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch
#6. Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
Benjamin Franklin
#7. She spun a hundred-eighty degrees at the end of the passageway, landed like an acrobat beside the drum hatch. "The reason. Why something would attack us even if we didn't have anything it wanted." I read it off her: "If it wasn't attacking at all. If it was defending itself.
Peter Watts
#8. Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#9. I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
Murray Walker
#11. This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch
#12. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#13. Time is an incubator. In some cases, it changes people. In others, it lets things grow and hatch. Too much time and it turns into a monster.
Karina Halle
#14. I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.
Orrin Hatch
#15. You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.
Orrin Hatch
#16. O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen
Frederick Buechner
#17. My heart sometimes feels like it will burst for them both. The love has a strange fleeting intangibility about it and seems always to disappear and be converted into the past even before I have properly grasped it.
Ben Hatch
#18. I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.
Richard Hatch
#19. If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)
Kate Atkinson
#20. The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges should have in our system of government, how much control judges should have over a written constitution that belongs to the people.
Orrin Hatch
#21. Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
Tiberius
#22. Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch
#23. So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.
Rex Hunt
#24. Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.
Charles Stross
#25. I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.
Paul Fry
#26. What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
John Updike
#27. There was no decision to make, really. When, against all odds, the miraculous happened and the spaceship landed for you and the hatch opened, you got on. The end. It didn't even matter if you would wind up as food or taken on a trip to the stars. Some things were worth the risk.
Eli Easton
#28. Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.
N. T. Wright
#29. The Indian peasant is the world's champion shitter. Stacks of chappaties and mounds of mustard leaf-mash down the hatch twice a day; stacks of shit a.m. and p.m.
Khushwant Singh
#30. You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.
Scott Howell
#31. Sometimes I wonder if I'm running against Mitt Romney or Sen. Hatch.
Scott Howell
#32. When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.
Tony Hatch
#33. Will you open up the exit hatch, please, computer?
Douglas Adams
#34. The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg,
But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.
For I hear all the talk of pollution and war
As the people all shout and the airplane roar,
So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm,
And I WILL NOT HATCH!
Shel Silverstein
#35. We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].
Orrin Hatch
#36. If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder
Orrin Hatch
#37. He couldn't get enough control to push the button. Suddenly there was a clank and a clanging and the squeal of metal above him and he looked up. The hatch door was closing.
James Dashner
#38. Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Orrin Hatch
#39. However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs..
Orrin Hatch
#40. Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.
Orrin Hatch
#41. Adam said, "You were smart to figure it out."
"Oh, I don't know," Gansey replied, but it was clear he was proud. Adam felt like he had helped a bird hatch from an egg.
Maggie Stiefvater
#42. I was upset, sad, angry - something! I needed to do something! I needed to feel myself, understand myself and this horrible world we are all trapped in, where bugs and tumors and viruses worm their way into our brains and lay their putrid eggs that hatch and eat us alive from the inside out.
Garth Stein
#44. It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space.
Jim Lovell
#45. The fact is ... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
Orrin Hatch
#46. Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.
Richard Hatch
#47. The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
Orrin Hatch
#48. First Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer - his new regular army rank dated to July 17 - was
Thom Hatch
#49. People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be.
Douglas Coupland
#50. In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations ... , by large law firms ... on more than one occasion(, and) ... by special interests ... (some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct ...
Orrin Hatch
#51. The victims," he said, "looked like a field of timothy grass, blown flat by the wind and rain after a summer storm.
Anthony P. Hatch
#52. Hatch opens
Stark light
the rupture begins
Sarah Kane
#53. What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
Patrick F. McManus
#54. Disease, which had reduced the number to less than fifty persons, subsided; the oppressive heat lessened; and Indian crops of peas, corn, and beans began to mature.
Charles E. Hatch
#55. I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.
Richard Hatch
#56. Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
Orrin Hatch
#57. Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.
Paul Walker
#58. You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.
J. F. Lawton
#59. The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.
Orrin Hatch
#60. The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.
Stephen Jay Gould
#61. Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.
Richard Hatch
#62. The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
Mark Twain
#63. [I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.
Phyllis Schlafly
#64. I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.
Richard Hatch
#65. The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.
Neil Armstrong
#66. Smuts are parasitic fungi that are often spread by pollinators and so, in the case of campions, pollinators pose the double threat of both laying eggs that will hatch into voracious larvae and giving the flower a nasty dose of the clap.
Dave Goulson
#67. Just because I haven't found anyone to give my heart to, doesn't mean I don't know how to go about doing it properly when I do.
Donna Hatch
#68. Ideas come easily to me, enacting them comes harder. I usually let things go. Perhaps it's an escape hatch, my way of allowing myself to double back and ease out the side door on a lot of my schemes. Irresolute about my social life, obsessive in my work.
Kathy Reichs
#69. When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions.
Orrin Hatch
#70. Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
Alan Shepard
#71. A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to implement it as mercifully as possible. Are we to believe then that a holy God-our heavenly Father-is less just than the courts of men?
Sidney Hatch
#73. Some people are like egg. The more you apply heat to them, the harder they become. To hatch them, just use a gentle heat, and to keep them alive, just keep them cool.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#74. The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
#75. Fire swept through "James Fort," consuming habitations, provisions, ammunition, some of the palisades and even Reverend Robert Hunt's books.
Charles E. Hatch
#76. I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth to it and it has to be about something. The story of the character and their relationship with the people and places around them appeal to me and are what I look for.
Richard Hatch
#77. Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .
Orrin Hatch
#79. You don't expect the goat to hatch the hen's eggs. People do what they know very well. Don't expect someone who doesn't know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Orrin Hatch
#81. Krivak slammed the hatch shut and waited for the depth gauge to show the ship coming shallow, listening to the other missile launches. What a beautiful sound, he thought. The fourth-launched Mark 98 Tigershark torpedo struggled to an angry consciousness, its
Michael DiMercurio
#82. When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.
Richard Hatch
#83. When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away! ... we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!! ...
Bill Maher
#84. Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.
Orrin Hatch
#86. He spoke of dreams and never named the dreamer, of a glass candle that could not be lit and eggs that would not hatch. He said the sphinx was the riddle, not the riddler, whatever that meant.
George R R Martin
#87. I love inspiring people and helping them to reach their potential.
Richard Hatch
#88. Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch
#89. Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.
Richard Hatch
#90. The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
Orrin Hatch
#91. If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
Laurel Clark
#92. The truth is like a septic tank and the smell will eventually get out no matter how hard we tighten down the hatch.
George Sorbane
#93. I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.
Orrin Hatch
#94. But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.
Orrin Hatch
#95. Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.
Richard Hatch
#96. We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
Orrin Hatch
#97. Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
E.B. White
#98. The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more.]
Orrin Hatch
#99. Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall
#100. We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate [a nominee's] fitness for the Supreme Court. That standard must be based on the fundamental principle that judges interpret and apply but do not make law.
Orrin Hatch
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