Jao Quotes & Sayings

You have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. Qing-jao — Orson Scott Card

Like all philosophers, I am an observer of the human condition. I have found through my observations that an intelligent man and a humble man are rarely the same person.
Jao-long from my book Aztec Legend Lord of the Jaguars. — B.E. Crittenden

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same. — Sathya Sai Baba

My family, my parents are hippies. — Shia Labeouf

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget. — Seth MacFarlane

The trouble with life is that, unlike movies, it doesn't have background music. We never know how we're supposed to feel. — Lewis Gardner

Deryl, we all make mistakes; we all get twisted in some way or another. Some of us do horrifying, evil things. But that doesn't make us evil, and yanking out a chunk of your personality isn't going to make you good. It just makes you incomplete. — Karina L. Fabian

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. — Mark Twain

The Thai people are pathologically shy. Combine that with a reluctance to lose face by giving a wrong answer, and it makes for a painfully long [ESL] class. Usually I ask the students to work on exercises in small groups, and then I move around and check their progress. But for days like today, when I'm grading on participation, speaking up in public is a necessary evil. "Jao," I say to a man in my class. "You own a pet store, and you want to convince Jaidee to buy a pet." I turn to a second man. "Jaidee, you do not want to buy that pet. Let's hear your conversation."
They stand up, clutching their papers. "This dog is reccommended," Jao begins.
"I have one already," Jaidee replies.
"Good job!" I encourage. "Jao, give him a reason why he should buy your dog."
"This dog is alive," Jao adds.
Jaidee shrugs. "Not everyone wants a pet that is alive."
Well, not all days are successes ... — Jodi Picoult

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln

The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous. — Eileen Myles

The poet Li Qing-jao knew the pain of regretting words that have already fallen from our lips and can never be called back. But she was wise enough to remember that even though those words are gone, there are still new words waiting to be said, like the pear blossoms. — Anonymous

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July. — Iliza Shlesinger

Being Jedi is what we are. It's not the power we weild or the weapons we carry."
-Luke Skywalker — Michael A. Stackpole

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything? — Orson Scott Card

The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for which they are qualified, except that women shall be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground.' — Cynthia Dill

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto ... It's the spirit that comes through in music. — Robert Palmer

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely. — Orson Scott Card

For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions are invalid and must be ignored! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being lost is the way, how else can you be found? — Elizabeth Cunningham

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.
Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. — Orson Scott Card

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see. — Brad Pitt

I should have told You
before talking in terms of Forever
that any given day wears me out and works me sour,
that there are nights when the sky is so clear
I stand obnoxious underneath it
begging for the stars to shoot at me
just so I can feel at Home. — Buddy Wakefield