List of Topics starting with [J]

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

And they were deeply moved not so much by the poetry as by their sensitivity to poetry; not so much by the genius of the ...

I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right ...

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel ...

It's about building bridges with those who won't come to us on Sunday, not as a project but because Jesus loves them and told us ...

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus ...

There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Captain, I said, letting the surprise I felt filter into my voice. It was weird how every time I said the word captain, I wanted ...

Regardless of her sexual nature, when she woke to discover that she had killed one vampire, only to be bound by another, her reaction was ...

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear ...

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!-The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Life is a loaded gunthat looks right at you with a yellow eye.

There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all ...

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

-and our lips meet with feels like not slow motion but every moment in my life and the lack of time altogether.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

The key thing is to be "Conservative in principle but Liberal in sympathy".

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just ...

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When ...

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have ...

Was the sky always this shade of magenta?

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?

My handling of the situation with Jake proved that I was the same girl from eight years ago. I'd just gained a stone and lost ...

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass ...

The Wit is more curse than gift, I sometimes think. Perhaps the hardest part of possessing it is witnessing so completely the casual cruelty of ...

Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.

I'm a chocolate addict.

To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, I know you. You have hurt me, almost to ...

The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even ...

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first ...

You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it ...

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - ...

The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining,heavy even when empty.

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out

Can I get you a drink?" "Sure. I'll have a gimlet." She turned to the bartender. "About a quarter more soda than lime juice, and ...

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209) ... ...

It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis ...

I don't have to shoot from more than two feet. I'm top 50. I've got 23,000 from where I shoot.

And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them ...

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

Most sailors weren't observant in that fashion. Pity she wasn't most sailors. Jinan Seton was a fine specimen of masculinity.

Come on, Jellal! You can't let yourself get taken away from you! For Erza's sake! So come here! We'll be with you too! We're on ...

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul ...

Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But ...

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying ... every time we appropriate something, we ... pass another bill ...

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over ...

If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not ...

I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little ...

Lord Thornbeck lifted her onto the saddle. He looked her in the eye, and her breath stilled in her chest. There was such an intense ...

When she played her music even the night demons stopped their work & it took them some time to remember what it was they were ...

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something ...

You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of ...

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman ...

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

My Day Clothes are almost worne out ... send the poor printer a few gammons, or some meal, some butter, cheese, poultry, etc.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many ...

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with ...

It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter,

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to ...

Because that's life, you know? Good and bad. You can't have one without the other. The bad brings out the good in us, and the ...

You're some freaky shit, my brother. You really are

I felt so many things at once that together, they combined to make nothing, a numbness, an absence of feeling caused by a surplus of ...

I had never thought of haiku, or any kind of poetry for that matter, as a social activity.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people ...

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.

Wake, soldier wake, thy war-horse waitsTo bear thee to the battle back;Thou slumberest at a foeman's gates,Thy dog would break thy bivouac;Thy plume is trailing ...

You'll never see a hearse towing a U-Haul.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we ...

Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work ... I.Q. is a ...

Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.

I might have no one in the world, but at least I'm free.

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.