John Irving Quotes
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.
John Irving
Quotes to Explore
I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
Sam Kinison
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J. M. Roberts
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
Hannah Kent
Life is like an analogy.
Aaron Allston
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
Ted Cruz
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Fiona Shaw
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
H. P. Lovecraft
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia
In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
H. R. McMaster
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
Larry Wilcox
American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
Karan Mahajan
