Top 54 Weatherford Quotes
#1. Printing with movable letters probably began in China in the middle of the twelfth century, but
Jack Weatherford
#2. Yeah, it will be great for later when it's darker too. I don't think I should ravish you right here in the middle of the park in full daylight." She actually gulped, and I laughed loudly. "I'm just messing with you, Goody. You're safe.
Lacey Weatherford
#3. Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.
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#4. For Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.
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#5. Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness.
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#6. If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
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#7. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.
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#8. While words may be altered or censored, the truth endures, even when not properly recorded. Truth can be forgotten, misplaced, or lost, but never annihilated.
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#9. Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.
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#10. My problem now was that no one was will- ing to look deep enough to see the real me that lay dormant beneath the surface. Everyone thought I was a trouble maker, the bad boy, the punk.
I wasn't. I was just broken. - Chase
Lacey Weatherford
#11. They quickly discerned the advantages of utilizing columns of numbers or place numbers in the style of Arabic numerals, and they introduced the use of zero, negative numbers, and algebra in China.
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#13. For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.
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#14. The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian church had the power to do so.
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#15. The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.
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#16. In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.
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#17. khan's mobile unit of doctors and pharmacists served him a tea made from orange peel, kudzu flowers, ginseng, sandalwood, and cardamom. Sipped on an empty stomach, the tea was guaranteed to overcome a hangover and make the khan fit for another day of hunting, eating, and drinking.
Jack Weatherford
#18. The truth may be hard to find, but it is out there - somewhere.
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#20. She lived in an environment that few people in the world have ever been able to survive. What knowledge did she have that made that possible? How did she survive for so long in a place that would kill most of us within days? Soon after my visit the old woman died, and now we may never know.
Jack Weatherford
#21. I melted easily into him once again - our homework still lying on the floor forgotten and neither of us seemed too inclined to start it again. Too bad we didn't have a class on physical anatomy together, then maybe we could've passed this off as studying.
Lacey Weatherford
#22. Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself,
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#23. You're my girlfriend, Cami, unless you don't want it that way." He opened his eyes, looking at me.
I swallowed. "I want it that way."
"Good, because I think we've established I'm never going to get my fill of you.
Lacey Weatherford
#24. The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning.
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#25. Three of her sisters became queens along the Silk Route, ruling over the grand Turkic nations of Onggud, Uighur, and Karluk.
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#26. You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.
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#27. Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family.
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#28. I'm saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I'm asking if you'll stick this out beside me. I'm willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that's the case. I just don't want to lose you.
Lacey Weatherford
#29. One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.
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#30. Most empires of conquest in history have imposed their own civilisation on the conquered ... By comparison the Mongols trod lightly on the world they conquered.
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#31. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
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#32. There's no need for you to rush. The right guy will always wait for you to truly be ready. He should honor you, worship you, and make it a moment for you to remember forever.
Lacey Weatherford
#35. It's just a date. One date. If you like it we'll have more, if you don't, we won't. I just want you to give me a chance before you decide I'm not worth it. - Chase
Lacey Weatherford
#36. You just keep kissing me like that, and let me decide how much is too much." Her fingers were against my mouth, tracing my lips. "You have no idea how long I've wanted to kiss these.
Lacey Weatherford
#37. On free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.
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#38. Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.
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#40. But what was the point of trying to be something else when everyone already had a preconceived notion of what you were. - Chase
Lacey Weatherford
#41. Please tell me it's not too late to fix this. Tell me you still love me. I've never wanted anything as much as I want you. I'll risk everything that's important to me, just to hear you say you want me in your life.
Lacey Weatherford
#42. No friend is better than your own wise heart!" Genghis Khan
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#43. I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read,she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.
Carole Boston Weatherford
#44. From riding nearly fifty miles in one day on a horse, I learned that the fifteen feet of silk tied tightly around the midriff actually kept the organs in place and prevented nausea.
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#45. Because you are the daughter of your Khan father, you are sent to govern the people of the Oirat tribe.
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#47. Outlawing the sale or barter of women marked Genghis Khan's first important departure from tribal practices regarding marriage, and gradually through a series of such changes he transformed the social position of his daughters, and thereby of all women, within his burgeoning empire.
Jack Weatherford
#48. Lollipop had been her nickname for me as long as I could remember. I asked her how she came up with the name, and she told me sometimes kids are sweet, and sometimes they just need a good lickin'.
Lacey Weatherford
#49. Khatun Temur, literally "Queen Iron," and Khatun Baatar, "Queen Hero.
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#50. I wasn't asking you to be my white knight or anything. I just needed to tell someone. Have you ever had something you wish you could talk to someone about, but it's buried so deep you're al- most afraid to give it a voice? - Nikki
Lacey Weatherford
#52. Images of the Madonna and the Christ Child carved in ivory and exported to Europe.
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#53. The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
Jack Weatherford
#54. Unlike societies that employed baroque procedures for distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate children, the Mongols accepted all children as equal. No child could be born without the consent of the Eternal Blue Sky. No earthly law or custom could presume to declare the child illegitimate.
Jack Weatherford
