#jordan

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested! ↗

— Thierry Henry

#even #i #interested #jordan #maybe

I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb. ↗

— King Hussein

#done #i #itself #jordan #proud

Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process. ↗

— King Hussein

#important #jordan #part #peace #peace process

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace. ↗

— King Hussein I

#dividing #dividing line #exists #i #israel

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come. ↗

— King Hussein I

#believe #come #create #democracy #generations

And yet, so many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves to it. We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve. ↗

— Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

#fantasy #robert-jordan #series #wheel-of-time #family

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#jordan #respects #secular #some #very

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#i #jordan #kobe #kobe bryant #michael

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player. ↗

— Doug Collins

#certainly #championship #championships #different #different ways

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry