Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Pete Hoekstra

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• Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Kind

• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Man
  • Dreams
  • Young Man

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Moment
  • Internet

• I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Believe
  • Reality

• Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Nothing
  • Follow

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Seen
  • Chicken
  • Turkey

• Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Bad
  • Haircut
  • Traumatic

• I used to teach dance lessons.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Dance
  • Teach
  • Used

• I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It is possible for every man to go deep within and saturate his conscious mind with inner happiness with that unlimited intelligence that dwells at the source of thought.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Mind
  • Deep

• The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Men
  • True
  • Past

• The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Time
  • Women
  • Success

• Art, that great undogmatized church.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Art
  • Church

• There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Home
  • War
  • Military

• I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Diversity

• That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Great
  • War
  • Picture

• Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Way
  • Christian
  • Training

• I enjoy playing football with my three older brothers Rick, Ryan and Bobby.

  

  Raymond Ochoa
  • Football
  • Playing
  • Older

• Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

  

  Pete Hoekstra