#do

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#ally #another #ardent #conversations #disagree

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#been #certain #certain extent #dead #endowed

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#believer #doubt #makes #mankind #something

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#call #called #classical #discussion #get

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#death #defeat #doors #drowning #emigration

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#alone #also #arrangement #decorative #gain

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#eroding #kinds #makes #more #paradoxically

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#develop #draw #ease #even #freedom

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

#birth #doubt #god #i #much

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ↗

— David Edward Jenkins

#any #defined #described #down #far