John D. Voelker Quotes
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
Quotes to Explore
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.
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The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
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In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.
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Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
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I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
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One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
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I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.
