List of Topics starting with [J]

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more ...

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

Accidents often produce the best solutions ... only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first ...

In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with ...

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Harry couldn't believe it. Was this more of Dumbledore's insane determination to see good in everyone?

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

There is much I am happy to forget

I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's ... Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.

There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories ...

To my wife Marganit and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam without whom this book would have been completed two years earlier.

The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the ...

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is ...

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to ...

Time is like the ocean; you can only hold a little in your hands.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief, are small blue creatures with more ...

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become ...

She charms by her eyes and slays with her tongue.

I was overwhelmed by the smells. Slow, heavy odours, tenaciously biting, forming a strange mixture of excessive life and death, of birth and decay.

Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro ...

Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will ...

I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with ... I'm just a normal person!

Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking ...

This quality of Jewish folk music [- it can appear to be happy when it's tragic-] is close to my idea of what music should ...

Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late

It is not a matter of how much you train, but of how you train. - RICK NILES, TRIATHLON COACH

We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliation - the daily tasks of life with other people. ...

I am the great test! a blackened shadow-boxing colossus jabjabbered, pounding his gloves against the wall. The heavyweight will be quillweight. Bantamweight, even. Ain't nobody ...

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

What woman wants to go home with a guy that lives with his mother?

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos- ...

Glory be to God for dappled things. ("Pied Beauty")

Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most ...

Mankind advances only through struggle.

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them ...

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same.

It was the reward of the loyal female disciples who had accompanied Jesus to the place of crucifixion and stayed with him through the horror ...

I ... can't go to dinner with you on Wednesday.""It's almost four in the morning, Abby. What's going on?""I can't see you at all, actually.""Abs ...

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre ...

You want to pass for a normal person? Don't tiptoe into people's bedrooms at night! Ever!''I can be creepy in front of you.''No, you can't! ...

The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.

Are you murdering more eggs for breakfast?" Japhet raised his head as the sound of boiling water filled the small apartment."Don't insult my eggs, Buchanan.""You ...

Jessica Rabbit! People wouldn't call her the most beautiful person in Hollywood, but I find her quirkiness and talent very attractive.

It's coming, a battle between Starclan and The Dark Forest and every warrior will be called upon to fight.

Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an extremely resourceful and ...

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

And far away in goddamn L.A. or Madison Avenue is the prick who decided that Skittles would sell more quickly if they promised Jalens they ...

And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?""A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's ...

It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.

My best advice foryou, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to worklike hell. Hang onto ...

I told you I don't care! I said again and again! I don't care! Whoever you are. Whatever you do. Rank or nobility, they have ...

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

The worst part about the job is the travel, which takes you away from family and friends and important dates and hockey games and tournaments ...

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

You're my favorite part of the day and every morning I look forward to seeing your face.

Egg whites are full of protein." "So is jizz. You don't see me harvesting yours so I can drink a glass of it.

I would do Winnie the Pooh. We would live in the tree house. We would hunt for honey.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up ...

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors ...

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are ...

Everything interests me.

Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, ...

I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but ...

Everyone can only succeed with their own Dharma.

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. ...

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change. The Kaiser could not change Moltke's plan nor could Kitchener alter Henry ...

Think of all the fabulous things that have happened in the world because someone has just done it-you know, just jumped off the cliff and ...

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever ...

Light as feathers the witches fly,The horn of the moon is plain to see;By a firefly under a jonquil flowerA goblin toasts a bumble-bee.

Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn.""I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."Luke & Jaina

They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common ...

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.

WE LEARN FROM OUR PAIN

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Who is good and who is bad? Life isn't black and white, Javier. You and I, we're just trying to live in all the grey. ...

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and ...

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in ...

A virtue which is divine is humility. A person who could do great things and still maintain humility of the heart, charity of the heart, ...

Art is not so much talent as character ... it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are ...

It was while bent over, trying to breathe through the pain of bruised ribs, with the sensation of spit running down his cheek that Jason ...