Jo Jordan Quotes

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

The killing of innocent people is a sin.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.

It's probably a twelve-day. He needs two days to wake up.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

Take what you want, and pay for it.

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.