Top 73 Poindexter Quotes
#1. The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.
William Safire
#2. If darkness is really not darkness at all, but rather, the absence of light, then my flaws are not really flaws at all, but rather, the absence of you. ~ Christopher Poindexter
Beth Hyland
#3. I close my eyes softly and fell in love with the way I remembered you: body, soul and all." ~ Christopher Poindexter
Leilani Bennett
#4. through all the
weariness
and depression
and troubled sighs
at the end of the
wailing day
it was enough
to remove my clothing
crawl into bed
and kiss her
in places the
sun never
touches."
-Christopher Poindexter
Christopher Poindexter
#5. People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me ... If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.
Oliver North
#6. They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I'd left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged by love - as who amongst us is not)
Karen Joy Fowler
#7. If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.
Robert M. Gates
#8. When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.
Alan G. Poindexter
#9. Anyone can find an excuse. It takes a special person to find the time
Linda Poindexter
#10. I watched a girl in a sundress kiss another girl on a park bench, and just as the sunlight spilled perfectly onto both of their hair, I thought to myself: 'How bravely beautiful it is, that sometimes, the sea wants the city, even when it has been told its entire life it was meant for the shore.
Christopher Poindexter
#11. I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter
#13. The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.
John Poindexter
#14. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.
Christopher Poindexter
#15. I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons
Christopher Poindexter
#16. I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
John Poindexter
#17. what i admire most
about her
is that she
knows how to
fuck reality
and
make love to
fantasy,
not something
many other humans
know how to
do.
imagination,
is her drink.
Christopher Poindexter
#18. The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love with bright screens and rising technology.
Christopher Poindexter
#19. sometimes
i just feel impossible.
like life wasn't meant
for me.
like it was an
interview
i showed up to
drunk out of
my mind.
Christopher Poindexter
#20. She buried her ears into the calm of his heartbeat, and in a matter of seconds; fell terribly in love with the way her loneliness fell softly and suddenly, asleep, in his chest.
Christopher Poindexter
#21. Go only where you are wanted. Go only when you are needed. Stay only if you are appreciated.
Linda Poindexter
#22. Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More than others.
She was different.
After all; I would
be a fool not to
notice the way the
sunshine played with
her hair.
Christopher Poindexter
#23. Never ever go by the book. They will want you to, but you musn't. If the lust is too strong, tear one page from a hundred books and make your own way. There is no formula for life, no equation on how to be a human being.
Christopher Poindexter
#24. Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola.
Alan G. Poindexter
#25. When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over
Linda Poindexter
#26. My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and I act in a manner to help the gentlemen outside, my fellow crewmates, who are performing the EVA tasks.
Alan G. Poindexter
#27. We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
John Poindexter
#28. Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.
Alan G. Poindexter
#29. Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
John Poindexter
#30. I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.
Alan G. Poindexter
#31. TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
John Poindexter
#32. tears are a silent passion for suffering-
i found ma self baffeld by hers-
the way they trickled in the presence if moonlight,
driven by the humans didnt undrstand her...
Christopher Poindexter
#33. You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
John Poindexter
#34. maybe people are no longer
beautiful to us because
we construct them with our
thoughts,
walking around the earth
building humans
like we are gods.
Christopher Poindexter
#35. The fastest way to find out if someone is really your friend, is to tell them that you're broke.
Linda Poindexter
#36. One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Linda Poindexter
#37. do you believe
in the
death penalty?"
he asked her.
"you mean being
sober?"
she laughed.
Christopher Poindexter
#38. If one drop of rain can find its way to the ocean, one prayer can find its way to God
Linda Poindexter
#40. If you wait for love to give your life meaning, you will go through life without both
Linda Poindexter
#41. My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves
Christopher Poindexter
#42. I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.
John Poindexter
#44. I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.
Alan G. Poindexter
#45. Those of us who are brave enough to venture out, find so many things that we never knew within.
Linda Poindexter
#47. She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.
Christopher Poindexter
#48. It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
John Poindexter
#49. i still have
the scarlet scarf
you gave me.
it smells of your
wild freedom.
if only we
could
feel what
we remember
and not just
remember
what we
felt.
Christopher Poindexter
#50. Refuse to ruin a perfectly good today by thinking about a bad yesterday
Linda Poindexter
#51. Make the world a better place one person at a time. Start with yourself
Linda Poindexter
#52. I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.
Alan G. Poindexter
#53. I can love things just by watching her love them. That is how I know, that I love her.
Christopher Poindexter
#55. It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones.
Christopher Poindexter
#56. Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am
Christopher Poindexter
#57. she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
Christopher Poindexter
#58. I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.
Alan G. Poindexter
#59. She was strange and beautiful and those were human qualities that I had never seen Weaved together before. She became terrifying to me, not because I feared who she was, but for the sake of love, I feared what she could do to me.
Christopher Poindexter
#60. Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
John Poindexter
#62. the gate around
heaven was
crowded when we
arrived together.
you looked at me
and giggled
and with whiskey on
your rose breath
you led me to some
place higher.
i always knew you were
beyond them.
i just wasn't sure
how far.
Christopher Poindexter
#63. You are not a rug ... everyone may try to walk all over you, but you do not have to lie there and take it!
Linda Poindexter
#64. Sometimes falling flat on your face allows you to see things from a totally different perspective.
Linda Poindexter
#65. Always remember, no matter how many problems you have, there is always someone who has more
Linda Poindexter
#66. Don't be offended when people don't seem to get you. Not everyone recognizes brilliance
Linda Poindexter
#67. i am something new"
you must tell yourself.
"i am the beginning and
end
of a story that will
never be liver again.
i am new earth and
new air and
new words.
i am as fresh as
birth.
i am significant.
Christopher Poindexter
#68. so i will say this-
give me your suffering
and i swear it will be carried
even if that means the death
of sorrow inside you
and the birth of sorrow
inside me.
Christopher Poindexter
#69. One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.
John Poindexter
#70. Not all relationships are meant to last, they're just practice for the one that does
Linda Poindexter
#71. She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.
Christopher Poindexter
#72. it was you and i that night
by the sea,
two bottles of wine and
a bowl deep,
we kissed and made love
as the moon and waves
talked business.
Christopher Poindexter
#73. I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
John Poindexter
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