The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.


Robert Jordan

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I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.
STANLEY JORDAN
When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN
I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN
Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN
If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN
And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN
The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN
We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN
I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN
Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time ...
PENNY JORDAN
I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of ...
PENNY JORDAN
Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as ...
JORDAN BELFORT
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as...
JORDAN BELFORT
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not ...
JUNE JORDAN
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke...
JUNE JORDAN
Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side...
JUNE JORDAN
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announce...
TENNEVA JORDAN
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they h...
DUPREE JORDAN
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the u...
JUNE JORDAN
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr...
JUNE JORDAN
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN
I never thought a role model should be negative.
MICHAEL JORDAN
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
MICHAEL JORDAN
The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're ...
JUNE JORDAN