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Hatch Quotes

The exit you leave open before you need it.

These hatch quotes play on the word's different meanings, from a real racetrack name to the political figure Orrin Hatch, plus the strategic idea of leaving your opponent a graceful way out. Our Creation collection covers new beginnings from another angle.

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.

Quotes by Ted Rall

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.

Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

He's 78 years old... He's not the same Orrin Hatch I knew 12 years ago.

Quotes by Scott Howell

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

Quotes by Scott Howell

Beginning Quotes

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

Quotes by Scott Howell

If you're not going to have consequences to a bad decision or to mislead Congress or any other aspect of life, that only incubates people to hatch bigger ideas that are not forthright and not abiding by the law.

Quotes by Paul Gosar

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.

Quotes by Murray Walker

What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more than ourselves into a world so fundamentally unworthy.

Quotes by Kim Brooks

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.

Quotes by Charles Stross

Birth Quotes

In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko...

Quotes by Carl Honore

First season of 'Survivor' - Richard Hatch was fascinating.

Quotes by Brian J. Smith

Frequently Asked Questions

What different meanings of hatch appear in these quotes?
They range from a fictional racetrack name to Senator Orrin Hatch, plus the figurative idea of an escape hatch left open during an argument or negotiation.
Who is Orrin Hatch in these quotes?
He's referenced as a real political figure, once mistaken for someone else at a public event and separately described as older than the speaker's own father.
What does leaving an escape hatch mean here?
One quote explains it as giving an opponent a graceful way to concede during an argument, so they can shift positions without feeling publicly humiliated.
Is Silver Hatch a real place?
It's referenced as a racetrack setting connected to a racing-themed show, tied to a speaker's enthusiasm for cars and motorsport commentary.
Does this topic touch on generational contrast?
Yes, one quote jokes about Hatch being old enough to be the speaker's father, playing on the generational gap between the two political figures.

One line jokes about a case of mistaken identity involving Hatch himself, and another treats a graceful Beginning of an argument's end as more valuable than winning outright, close to the idea of Emergence from conflict intact.