Jao Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto ... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Palmer

#3. 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

#4. How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

Orson Scott Card

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

Carew Papritz

#9. The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

Henry Rollins

#10. Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand.

Mark Mason

#11. Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other's needs, and try to help in that regard.

Thomas S. Monson

#12. He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline. He snatches his fingers a moment before they press into my lip.

Rebecca Berto