List of Topics starting with [J]

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

A number of laws that are said to protect citizens harkens back to "Jim Crow" era.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first ...

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found ...

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs ...

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ...

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

What's that?" "Jane!" Gansey said joyfully.Adam said, "It's a wizard in a box.""It will do your homework," Noah added."And it's been dating your girlfriend," Ronan ...

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination ...

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

Normal consumers declare rock to be dead whenever they personally stop listening to it (or at least to new iterations of it), which typically happens ...

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind ...

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Sebastian will never fight wars, but it's because of people like him that the rest of us don't have to fight as many of them. ...

You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil ...

A girl needs to eat ... ," she said. "A girl needs to follow the rules here, or she gets axed.

We probably won't live long enough to run out of food, or electricity, or anything important." "Oh, you'll live," Murphy said. "I have no doubt." ...

Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle ...

Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No ...

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?

When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it ...

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little infinity

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Charlotte's dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made ...

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At ...

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud?

The smell of peppery warm cheese and thick, yeasty grilled bread was beginning to fill the air. She would give the sandwich to Della Lee ...

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and ...

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it ...

Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer ...

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not ...

You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.

I won't stay silent anymore, not when speaking out can make a difference.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

You know, I don't think it's worth it to deny yourself happiness just so you can stay faithful to the person you think you've become.

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day ...

I didn't come looking for an apology, Jesper. You have a weak spot. We all have weak spots.""What's yours?""The company I keep," she said with ...

There the rose of joy bloomed immortal by dale and stream; clouds never darkened the sunny sky; sweet bells never jangled out of tune; and ...

Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the ...

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

It will kill you to love like you will never die.

I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I ...

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it ...

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving ...

You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless.

My life failed on the very day I was born.

Wishful thinking is more valuable to an artist than critical thinking.

I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth.

Boyishness - by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough ...

At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest.

The greatest barrier to knowing God's will is simply that we want to run our own lives. Our problem is that a battle is going ...

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

Sun protection doesn't need to be complicated or expensive - it needs to be consistent. Keep it simple, but do it forever!

Elizabeth had to laugh at that. She did have a knack for stepping in it. She looked across the table and wanted to argue the ...

Must every action - every word and thought - recall Alena? Swimming, currents, beaches, exhibitions, artists, parties. How long until my bodily presence had half ...

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us ...

Only by God's divine love can we truly forgive from the heart. - Jessica Talbot - ...

If the stillness is VolcanicIn the human faceWhen upon a pain TitanicFeatures keep their place-If at length the smoldering anguishWill not overcome-And the palpitating VinyardIn ...

Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or ...

Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict.

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my ...

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.

Life is an infernal loop where the day before yesterday has merged with today, and yesterday has been jettisoned. We think we are moving forward ...

Denying what you are didn't keep people from knowing what you are.""And flaunting it isn't what saved you."Ykka takes a deep breath. The muscles in ...

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

I just kick a heelflip out - frontside 180, jump in the air and pray.

Her given name was Lucinda but she'd called herself Juveline since age fifteen, when she'd been caught selling knockoff Burberry totes and a cop at ...

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Scientific knowledge does not contain within itself directions for its humanitarian use.

So let's accept what must be accepted, without letting our acceptance justify inaction. Don't

High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two ...

There may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways ...

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker ... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because ...

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

Epistemologists have come to a loose description of knowledge as justified true belief which is not based off false assumptions, but even this is fallacious ...

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.