Jo Jordan Quotes

Live the moment for the moment.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

Success doesn't stop when you get there

I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.

Life is a sport...drink it up.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.

There's only one Michael Jordan.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.

I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery of God.

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

You got to go along to get along.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

It's always been said that when I can't find a way to do anything, I will find a way to do it.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation