J Quotes
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“Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab city, a part of the Arab world where people are seemingly living their lives like everywhere else and also just a part of the Arab world that's surprisingly Americanized, with fast-food joints everywhere and shopping malls. Over the 30 years I've been traveling there, I really saw it grow and become modernized and much more Americanized in a way that surprised me as an Arab-American.”
“Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.”
“Jordan leaned on the counter. He felt a little like a bartender in a TV show, dispensing sage advice. "What do you owe her?"
"Life," Isabelle said.
Jordan blinked. This was a little beyond his bartending and advice-offering skills. "She saved your life?"
"She saved Jace's life. She could have had anything from the Angel Raziel, and she saved my brother. I've only ever trusted a few people in my life. Really trusted. My mother, Alec, Jace, and Max. I lost one of them already. Clary's the only reason I didn't lose another.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Jordan Mullen is looking at me like I'm something he wants to scrape off his shoe and right then my heart breaks, but somehow beats on.”
Source: All I Ever Wanted
“Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!”
“Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites”
“Jordan Ruddes does [have a home studio], but it's all self-contained. I'll be the only guy with a fully built recording studio. So they'll have to come to me.”
“Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.”
“Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "if you were a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful."
"yes," said jace. "or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Jordan tattoos the words "forgive me" in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.”
“Jordana is in the umpire's highchair.
I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres in front of her, in the service box.
Her legs are crossed.
I wait for her to speak.
'I have two special skills,' she says.
She pulls a sheaf of papers from under her bum. I recognize the font and the text boxes. It's my pamphlet.
'Blackmail,' she says.
She holds up her Zippo in the other hand. I can tell that she has been practising this.
'And pyromania.'
I am impressed that Jordana knows this word.
'Right,' I say.
'I'm going to blackmail you, Ol.'
I feel powerless. She is in a throne.
'Okay,' I say.”
Source: Submarine
“Jorden humaniseras av hjältar - var en hjälte min vän - säg alltid, jag är pliktbunden, jag är ansvarig, jag är oövervinnerlig.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Jorden tilhører ikke mennesket.
Det er menneskene, der tilhører Jorden. De duftende blomster er vore søstre, og hesten, den mægtige ørn, for ikke at tale om elgen, er vore brødre. Og hvordan kan man købe eller sælge noget som helst? For hvem ejer varmen i luften eller lyden af vinden i træerne? Og saften i grenene bærer erindringen om dem, der har levet før os. Og lyden af bækkens mumlen er er vores forfaders stemme. Og vi må lære vores børn, at jorden under deres fødder er forfædrenes akse, og at alt, hvad der overgår Jorden også overgår os, og hvis mennesket spytter på jorden, spytter det på sig selv.”
Source: Doppler
“Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.”
“Jordyn lowered her arms to her sides. "So. This is war?"
Baylon nodded. "This is war.”
Source: Dark Alpha's Claim
“Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.”
“Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.”
“Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him. This was long after he had become one of the great masters, a writer everyone looks up to and reveres. As artists, I don't think we ever see ourselves as done. We always think we're at the beginning . . .”
“Jorge’s andd Yesi’s experiences show how particular enactments of Puerto Ricaness and Mexicanness were viewed as problematic. Not coincidentally, Jorge and Yesi became marked in part because of their Spanish and English language practices, respectively.”
Source: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
“Jorge siempre viviría a la sombra de su privilegio, entre algodones y fracasos. Penélope, la preciosa Penélope, era mujer y por tanto tesoro, no tesorero. Julián, que tenía alma de poeta, y por tanto de asesino, reunía las cualidades.”
“Jorgen Weight stepped into the infirmary, flight helmet under his arm. Perhaps he should have stowed the helmet, but there was no rule requiring it - and he felt good carrying it. It made hime feel ready to fly at a moment's notice. Gave him the illusion that he was in control.
- Jorgen; Starsight: Brandon Sanderson, Skyward Series”
“Jos Ahtisaari istuu jossain Zairessa 15 vuotta saunomassa ja syömässä banaaneja ja sillä pätevöityi Suomen presidentiksi, niin mullahan on silloin vissiin samat krediitit, paitsi että mä tein koko ajan oikeeta duunia enkä loikoillut jossain palmun alla hellekypärä päässä juomassa kokista ja leikkimässä Livingstonea.”
Source: Tuomiopäivä
“Jos et keksi mitä tekisit, niin ole kiltisti. (Auringonvalo, tässä olen, s. 217)”
“Jos helvetti on olemassa, niin minun kohdallani se on alkanut jo maan päällä. Jos helvetti on olemassa, niin minun kohdallani se tulee olemaan tämmöistä, tuonpuoleisessa, haudantakaisessa maailmassa.
Jos helvetti on olemassa ja sinne joudutaan synnin vuoksi, joudun minä olemaan siellä runkkaamisen vuoksi.
Minä joudun runkkaamaan siellä ikuista runkkiaja hekuman huippu tapahtuu tuomiopäivänä. Perkeleen perkele!”
“Jos inhoaa väkivaltaa eikä usko politiikkaan, ainoa merkittävä jäljelle jäävä parannuskeino on kasvatus.”
“Jos irvistäisi kuollessaan, niin että kuolinnaamion
valaja joutuisi nolostellen ottamaan muottinsa.
Jos testamenttaisi ruumiinsa tieteelle, niin että
kuninkaalliset hautajaiset jouduttaisiin perumaan,
koska ruumista ei olisi. Tai jos toivoisi tuhkauksen
ja sirottelun mereen ja oikein kovan tuulen, niin
että tuhka ratisisi ministerien höllentyneissä
hampaissa vielä seuraavanakin päivänä.”
Source: Lumikin sydän
“Jos joku saa sinut nauramaan, haluat varmasti tavata hänet uudestaan!”
“Jos joku uskaltaa sanoa, että EU on jossain asioissa täysin perseestä, niin se leimataan heti tyhmäksi ja takajunttilan jääräksi, joka ei ymmärrä mitään isoista kuvioista.”
Source: Tuomiopäivä
“Jos kaikki olisivat ihmisiä niin maailma hukkuisi tavaraan.”
“Jos minulla on usko, niin se on sekä ylistykselle että pilkalle avoin.”
Source: Et kävele yksin
“Jos minun pitäisi sanoa mikä tuota miestä vaivaa, hän ajattelee, minäpä sanoisin ettei sillä mikään ole hätänä. Sillä on kaikki hyvin.”
Source: Karhun kuolema
“Jos olisin saanut valita, olisin tietysti ottanut perinnöksi jotain kauniimpaa kuin suonikohjut. Mutta ajatellessani jotain tuollaista muistutan itseäni siitä, että maailma on täynnä kauneutta, eikä ole mitään syytä, että sen kaiken pitäisi olla juuri minussa.”
Source: Tie, totuus ja kuolema
“Jos on selvästi kyse aivan sietämättömästä pelleilystä, journalistit voisivat mieluusti kirjoittaa, että nyt on kuulkaa kyse aivan sietämättömästä pelleilystä.”
Source: Oikeusjuttu
“Jos puulla olisi tunto, poikaseni, meillä ei olisi minkäänmoista toivoa, suotta yrittäisi silloin ihminen rukoilla syntejään anteeksi.”
Source: Neuvostoproosaa 3: Uusimmat vuosikymmenet
“Jos yritän saada kaiken entiselleen, niin minusta itsestänikin tulee samanlainen kuin ennen. Alan taas pelätä.”
Source: Tales from Moominvalley
“Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you’re sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart’s a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?” “Mm-hmm.” He finished his ale. “That would be love.”
“Joscha: For me a very interesting discovery in the last year was the word spirit—because I realized that what “spirit” actually means: It’s an operating system for an autonomous robot. And when the word was invented, people needed this word, but they didn’t have robots that built themselves yet; the only autonomous robots that were known were people, animals, plants, ecosystems, cities and so on. And they all had spirits. And it makes sense to say that a plant is an operating system, right? If you pinch the plant in one area, then it’s going to have repercussions throughout the plant. Everything in the plant is in some sense connected into some global aesthetics, like in other organisms. An organism is not a collection of cells; it’s a function that tells cells how to behave. And this function is not implemented as some kind of supernatural thing, like some morphogenetic field, it is an emergent result of the interactions of each cell with each other cell.
Lex: Oh my god, so what you’re saying is the organism is a function that tells the cells what to do? And the function emerges from the interaction of the cells.
Joscha: Yes. So it’s basically a description of what the plant is doing in terms of macro-states. And the macro-states, the physical implementation are too many of them to describe them, so the software that we use to describe what a plant is doing—this spirit of the plant—is the software, the operating system of the plant, right? This is a way in which we, the observers, make sense of the plant. The same is true for people, so people have spirits, which is their operating system in a way, right, and there’s aspects of that operating system that relate to how your body functions, and others how you socially interact, how you interact with yourself and so on. And we make models of that spirit and we think it’s a loaded term because it’s from a pre-scientific age, but it took the scientific age a long time to rediscover a term that is pretty much the same thing and I suspect that the differences that we still see between the old word and the new word are translation errors that over the centuries.”
“Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.”
“Jose [Mourinho] was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.”
“Jose DeLeon
on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.”
“Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong”
“Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting that character/community is formed, at least in part, by the physical landscape in which he/she resides. And this is underscored by the fact - and not all that long ago - that people and place were, in fact, synonymous: Sapho of Lesbos, for example. Or my middle namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi. Jesus of Nazareth.”
“Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.”
“Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.”
“Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's great federalist and apologist, has coined a wonderful term, la raza cósmica, "the cosmic race," a new people having not one race but many in their blood.”
“Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!”
“Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.”
“Joseph also had to learn to forgive. A very tough lesson indeed. His brothers treated him like an animal and sold him for gain. He was insulted and falsely accused in Egypt. Yet, he chose to forgive his accusers and God exalted him to a high position over his accusers. If he had held onto his hurts and offenses, he would not have been able to deliver the nation. Forgiveness always opened the door to God’s blessing and favor. Joseph was in a place (the pit) where he had to beg for bread but God promoted him to the top (the palace) to give bread unto those (his brothers) that came to beg from him. Had he not been tested and proven worthy by God for this new position, pride would have been his downfall. But God’s Spirit kept him humble and also pliable in the hands of God.
Eight People, Eight Life Lessons - Paddick Van Zyl”
“Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him. 'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.”
“Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain.”