List of Topics starting with [J]

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ...

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable ...

She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert ...

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of others those ...

If our kisses were each a story, this was the one where the hero got the girl, and they rode off into the sunset.

A princess of her people has no business sitting off to the side while her people are in danger.

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

I had asked him many times why he stayed, and he always said the same thing: "Because I love you, and I wanted to, and ...

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What ...

The world's delight is a brief dream.

I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of ...

We don't choose our destinies but we must do our duties.

Launching an innovative premium jelly bouillon into a highly competitive market at the height of austerity, for example, might not have been thought the wisest ...

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that ...

You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

I'll never forget when we played Shepherd's Bush in London. We played 'I Run To You', and we put the mic out for the last ...

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember ...

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you ...

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is ...

It is with a word as with an arrowonce let it loose and it does not return.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. He never seemed ill at ease, and even when he did not speak the ...

Merry didn't make you a whining bitch, Talan; you were always that.

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? ...

One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher

Love made me weak. I wished it would go away. Instead, it crushed me under its heel. I let Levvie push me back onto the ...

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the ...

He exhaled in disgust. "High school is boredom punctuated by humiliation.

The fitting BoD is less about physical strength, more about mental toughness, with fitting minds and fresh eyes.

Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.

Enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from ... from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all. He ...

Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country.

Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.

Many support what I am doing.

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up ...

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. ...

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the ...

The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two year suspension for a lawyer caught having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she ...

I have very eclectic tastes.

So that's what it means to be a "nonpracticing homosexual," I thought: it means I don't know what I am!

I will accept anything in the theatre ... provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

Tallow was nervously aware that his name was on the worse cold-case dump CSU had ever seen. He was not looking forward to having them ...

Pastors, elders, and members often misinterpret the church through business and organizational lenses.

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; ...

It's important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of ...

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with ...

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short ...

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of ...

As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not ...

For him, the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities.

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

He looked over at me. "You're a kid yourself.""Vampire since April," I said."Good transition?""It's had its moments," I said.

My life is triage.

I am not the body, I am not the mindI am the spirit, eternal, joyful and kind.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for ...

-"I am really starting to dislike you." -"You know what they say: dislike is akin to lust."-"That's not the expression."-"It is in my world. You ...

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.

The people who are getting 3-D printers at home are pioneers, kind of like the people who bought Apple IIs in 1981. Adults are usually ...

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a ...

If summer had a flavor, it was pink bubble gum.

And now for me, faith is less of a brick edifice of belief and doctrine and right answers than it is a wide-open sky ringed ...

I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, ...

The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills

Never trust a hug. It's just a way to hide your face.

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

I say it, and even speaking such a dream is to offer it up for taint. As long as it is secret, closed, full of ...

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

They simply never understand,do they,that sometimes solitudeisone of the most beautifulthingson earth?

Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...

I only want to talk to you. The robbers are all in bed by now. Drunks, drifters, and poets are the only ones up this ...

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

Here is the story of how I died. I wish it were a glamorous story; sadly, there was little glamour in my death. The end ...

I'm glad ... that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept ...

It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things ...

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and ...

If our minds are like a garden, then emotions are like the different flowers that bloom and wither in it all year round, according to ...

Young Reinette: Monsieur, be careful!The Doctor: It's just a nightmare, Reinette, don't worry, everyone has nightmares. Even monsters under the bed have nightmares!Young Reinette: What ...

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate ...

Best not to dream, dear. If you don't, there's nothing that can be taken from you.

The sky grew darker, and the light abandoned the daytime, so that we found ourselves always moving in a timeless murk, the only way to ...

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton ...

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

I'm often mistaken for a man.

Between wiener juice and lung blood, I'd say that chambray shirt was a goner.