#w

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#allows #american #american people #build #country

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#company #fairy #fairy tales #literally #tales

Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good. ↗

— Curtis Joseph

#anytime #feels #get #good #old

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas. ↗

— Jim Walton

#before #cnn #dangerous #deploying #equip

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. ↗

— David Trimble

#behind #dark #distance #forward #future

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#city #i #i was born #new #new york

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

#different #different way #dinner #dinner table #everybody

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting

Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#falling-in-love #feelings #heart #love #love-at-first-sight