Hoeven North Quotes

#1. Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

Sidney Lanier

#2. Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?" Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. What I see in Star Wars is the same problem that Faust gives us:

Joseph Campbell

#3. Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

John Hoeven

#4. I don't really believe in regrets.

Wayne Newton

#5. Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

Larry Page

#6. Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.

John Hoeven

#7. Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

Jodi Picoult

#8. Music can tear me up inside.

Florence Welch

#9. One of the key things that we did at Bank of North Dakota that I worked to try to do with our state economic development is make sure we are customer-service oriented.

John Hoeven

#10. I always try to pick my parts to be as diverse as I can, and especially when you do 'Game of Thrones' for so many months of the year.

Richard Madden

#11. Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Andre Malraux

#12. All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Jeanne Moreau

#13. Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

Doug E. Fresh

#14. Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.

Cheyenne McCray

#15. We targeted five industries for growth, industries where we have natural advantages in North Dakota: value-added agriculture, advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses, energy and tourism. We worked very hard to grow all those businesses, and that's what's happening.

John Hoeven

#16. People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.

Ian McNulty