Jade Quotes

• Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Shy, Fickle, Causes

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4483, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mom, Thinking, Years

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• I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Girl, Mother, Home

  "Giada De Laurentiis Addresses John Mayer Rumors", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Feet, Inches

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• It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

  Bruce Lee

  Broken, Clay, Pieces

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• This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Horse, Philosophy, Journey

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.

  William Shakespeare

  Wince

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [255]

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• i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

  Lisa See

  Broken, Clay, Flawless

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.114, A&C Black

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Sky, Poetry, Storm

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up

  Francesca Lia Block

  Eye, Light, Blue

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• There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self Esteem, Home, Jewels

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• Too much success is not an advantage.
  Do not tinkle like jade
  Or clatter like stone chimes.

  Laozi

  Success, Stones, Too Much

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• There are makeup artists sometimes that have a jade face roller. If you're really tired those are really good.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Tired, Artist, Makeup

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

  Laozi

  Clothes, Taoism, Sage

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• Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

  Laozi

  Shining, Taoism, Stones

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• A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal.

  David Cross

  Mean, Wind, Feelings

  "David Cross Disses Album Reviews, Notorious B.I.G, Dane Cook, Religion". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Gold, Able

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• Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.

  Ursula Vernon

  Girl, Moon, Opportunity

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• Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.

  Lola Ridge

  New York, Twilight, Night

  Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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• The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.

  Marco Pirroni

  Witty, Clever, Past

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'

  Zhuangzi

  Stars, Moon, Jewels

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• Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons of white jade soar and freeze the whole sky with snow. When a summer sun heats the globe rivers flood and men turn into fish and turtles. Who can judge a thousand years of accomplishments or failures?

  Mao Zedong

  Summer, Spring, Passion

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Oats, Blood, Spurs

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• Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Thinking, Long

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Le Portrait de Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray: Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English”, p.196, BookRix

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