Carol Jordan Quotes

You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are. ~ Val McDermid

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff. ~ Chelsea Cain

The nurse looked surprised. 'You're a bit high on the totem pole to be taking statements.' Carol debated momentarily how to describe her relationship with Tony. 'Colleague' was insufficient, 'landlord' somehow misleading and 'friend' both more and less than the truth. She shrugged. 'He feeds my cat. ~ Val McDermid

He spread his hands in a self-deprecating gesture. 'Well, I'm not a cop. And I'm not a woman.' She couldn't resist. 'I had noticed. ~ Val McDermid

Why are you only coming home just after three? Do you want a drink? I'm wide awake now.'
He could be so like a small child, she thought. Out of nowhere, all eagerness and curiosity. ~ Val McDermid

He looked so vulnerable and fallible, his shoulders slumped, his head down, that Carol's impulses overrode the decision she'd taken only minutes before to play it cool. She stepped forward and pulled Tony into a tight hug. 'If anyone can do it, you can,' she whispered against his chin like a cat marking its territory. ~ Val McDermid

Attractive smile, Carol added to her list of particulars as she shook the hand. ~ Val McDermid

Look at you. Finally, you look upset. Is that what's bothering you now?' She stepped close to him and pushed him hard in the chest, making him stumble backwards. 'The fact that you didn't predict this? Didn't work it out? That you're not as smart as you thought you were? the great Tony Hill fucked up and now my brother's dead?' She pushed him again and he had to twist away to avoid falling down the stairs. ~ Val McDermid

They both possessed a victimhood that had been conferred because they'd both been guilty of being female in a world where some men believed they deserved never to feel powerless. ~ Val McDermid

Tony got up from his desk and crouched down beside her. She was instantly aware of the smell of him, a mixture of shampoo and his own fain, animal scent. ~ Val McDermid

It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target. ~ Val McDermid

I'm telling you the truth, Carol. Even though it's actually none of your business.'
She half turned, found a smile from somewhere and said, 'You're quite right. It is none of my business. Till tomorrow Tony. ~ Val McDermid

You know, I've often wondered. It's pretty clear what they were up to in Sodom, but what do you suppose the sin of Gomorrah was?' Carol asked. ~ Val McDermid

Some men [ ... ] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him. ~ Robert Jordan

We have to love more, I believe the most powerful message preached was when no words were used Jesus hung on the cross. And with his blood declared its finish. This is why we need to love harder, and I don't mean we need more preachers we need Christians so changed by the gospel that the love of God on the cross floods every aspect of your life. ~ Jordan Wells

When the internal critic puts you down using such comparisons, here's how it operates:
First, it selects a single, arbitrary domain of comparison ( fame, maybe, or power).
Then it acts as if that domain is the only one that is relevant. Then it contrasts you unfavorably with someone truly stellar, within that domain.

It can take that final step even further, using the unbridgeable gap between you and its target of comparison as evidence for the fundamental injustice of life. That way your motivation to do anything at all can be most effectively undermined. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

From the White House down, the myth holds that fatherhood is the great antidote to all that ails black people. But Billy Brooks Jr had a father,. Trayvon Martin had a father. Jordan Davis had a father. Adhering to middle-class norms has never shielded black people from plunder. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy. ~ Robert Jordan

Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love. ~ Hillary Jordan

The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth. ~ Robert Jordan

We have made the world dance as we sang for three thousand years. That is difficult habit to break, as I have learned while dancing to your song. You must dance free, and even the best intentioned of my sisters may well try to guide your steps as I once did. ~ Robert Jordan

Blakewood had a collection of miniature furniture with Scotty dogs painted on it, arranged on a semicircular shelf int he corner. Yeah. He was queer. ~ Jordan Castillo Price

To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Any day you wake up, maybe you die. ~ Robert Jordan

The heart that truly loves never forgets. ~ Sophie Jordan

I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again. ~ Sophie Jordan

Past is past, and the future is ahead. ~ Robert Jordan

We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment. ~ William George Jordan

People have no idea in the world what is going on. ~ Jordan Maxwell

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do. ~ Abdallah II Of Jordan

Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that? ~ Joyce Carol Oates

The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind. ~ Queen Noor Of Jordan

You do know that the West Bank means the West Bank of the Jordan River, don't you? ~ James Martin

Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes. ~ Jordan Sonnenblick

Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball. ~ John Medina

Lan said the time to sound most sure was when you were least certain. ~ Robert Jordan

No Mama. Been here awhile seen a lot of girls, in a lot of places. Don't believe I've ever seen one pumping gas barefoot. ~ Jordan Marie

I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe. ~ Carol Plum-Ucci

I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler. ~ Jordan Burroughs

Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character, - but she always pays. ~ William George Jordan

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name ~ June Jordan

The same theme can be found in Carol Reed's pioneering The Stars Look Down, in which three classic avenue of escape from the working class are posited: crime, football and education. ~ Peter Wollen

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan. ~ Carol S. Dweck

Bullying is about judging. It's about establishing who is more worthy or important. The more powerful kids judge the less powerful kids. They judge them to be less valuable human beings, and they rub their faces in it on a daily basis. Like the boys in Sheri Levy's study, they get a boost in self-esteem. It's not that bullies are low in self-esteem, but judging and demanding others can give them a self-esteeem rush. Bullies also gain social status from their actions. Others may look up to them and judge them to be cool, powerful, or funny. Or may fear them. Either way, they've upped their standing. ~ Carol S. Dweck

Of the love-making of Carol and Will Kennicott there is nothing to be told which may not be heard on every summer evening, on every shadowy block. ~ Sinclair Lewis

Hush, hush, my bonnie sweet lamb. Tho' my ship must sail in the morning, I will be with you When the salt spray fans the shore, I will be with you When the wind blows the heather, I will be with you when the dove sings her song, Sing ba la loo laddie, sing ba la loo dear Hush, hush, my bonnie sweet lamb. ~ Carol Goodman

He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I like to look at the glass half full. ~ Abdallah II Of Jordan

I am working never to be late again. ~ June Jordan

we bwlive that feminism is a transformative philosophy that embraces the amelioration of life on earth for all life-forms, for all natural entities ~ Carol J. Adams