Norman Podhoretz Quotes

#1. Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz in 1958, he yelled, 'We'll get you through your children!' For countless American families, that turned out to be only too true.

Roger Kimball

#2. God created us to be great in our calling

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I don't know what the hell is going on with me and this girl, but every single time I'm around her, it's like I lose my shit.

Melyssa Winchester

#4. I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort of know it. I feel like people are getting less and less pretentious and less and less hip - hopefully.

Justin Vernon

#5. If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

Terry Pratchett

#6. What's beautiful, grey and wears glass slippers? Cinderelephant. Why are elephants wrinkled? They don't fit on the ironing board. How do you get down from an elephant? You don't. You get down from a goose. Why do elephants have trunks? Because they'd look funny with a glove compartments

Jodi Picoult

#7. If I ever become a king, I'm totally going to ask him for an army of giant golden acid-spitting llamas. Okay, sorry. I got distracted again.

Rick Riordan

#8. [T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.

Norman Podhoretz

#9. To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#10. God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness,

Francine Rivers

#11. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Tony Robbins

#12. The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

Norman Podhoretz

#13. Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Norman Podhoretz

#14. "World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

Norman Podhoretz

#15. The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.

Norman Podhoretz

#16. Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Lord Byron

#17. Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality ... is conscious and alert ... The lower personality is a ... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature ...

E. M. Forster

#18. In 'Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education' and 'Why A Students Work for C Students,' I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Robert Kiyosaki

#19. He that sends a foole expects one.

George Herbert

#20. Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

Jodi Picoult

#21. Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

Norman Podhoretz