Author: David Poyer

Cites

• John Fisher (1)
  • IN: Tipping Point (2015) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: All nations want peace; but they want a peace that suits them.
    FROM: Admiral of the Fleet, (None), NULL, UK
• Plato (1)
  • IN: The Cruiser (2014) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: The Whiteness of the Whale (2013) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: For—absurd as it may seem— men are only made to comprehend things which they comprehend before (though but in the embryo, as it were). Things new it is impossible to make them comprehend; in their own hearts they really believe they do comprehend; outwardly look as though they did comprehend; wag their bushy tails comprehendingly; but for all that, they do not comprehend.
    FROM: Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, (1852), Novel, US