Wopke Hoekstra Quotes

When it causes as much storm as it does now, apparently it is because you did not do well.

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• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Religious
  • Causes
  • Intolerance

• More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Female

• Struggling toward impassioned choirs, Crying among the clouds, enraged By gold antagonists in air - I know my lazy, leaden twang Is like the reason in a storm; And yet it brings the storm to bear. I twang it out and leave it there.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Storm

• As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,-Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Storm
  • Clouds
  • Sunshine

• The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Storm

• When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Giving
  • Party
  • Storm

• Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.

  

  Brad Gilbert
  • Storm

• I get mad at the New York-based environmentalists because if you were truly environmentalists you wouldn't have a storm surge system and a sanitary system hooked together here that requires you to close your beaches 10 times a year.

  

  Aubrey McClendon
  • Together
  • Mad
  • Storm

• I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I'm not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas... his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Up
  • Book
  • Storm

• I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

  

  James Mattis
  • Air
  • Storm
  • Marine

• There's a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it's not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science might disagree, but I think there's a difference in the air on a coast - the positive ions, perhaps.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Science

• Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Great
  • Storm
  • Recovery

• Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Life
  • Up
  • Success

• No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • Ocean
  • Storm

• All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.

  

  Warren G. Bennis
  • Quality
  • Integrity
  • Race

• Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Audience
  • Alert
  • Sci-Fi

• We would love to be able to see the dress. We try to match the ribbon with that and make sure the flowers match. We know this is a special day.

  

  Angie Brown
  • See
  • Dress
  • Flowers

• I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Why
  • Want

• When it causes as much storm as it does now, apparently it is because you did not do well.

  

  Wopke Hoekstra
  • Storm
  • Causes
  • Do Well