List of Topics starting with [J]

It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, ...

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and ...

It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, ...

If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

My mother sang me a lullaby,my mother had not slept for a while,her hands the same: craggy and agile.the wooden ceiling emanated the same tie:sulky ...

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to ...

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.

Myth: Vampires can shapeshift into bats at will.Truth: Who would want to turn into a giant bat?Wait, don't answer that.

But flaming youth in all it's madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness,Are babbled out and soon revealed.

But sir, I'm seventeen," I reply bluntly. "I'm genetically programmed to want to make statements.

I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only ...

All stress comes from resisting what is.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a ...

Shall I ask again?" wondered Xaro. "No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men's hearts. Humble merchants like myself ...

Library users tell survey researchers that they want access to more ebooks and they want libraries to offer more technologically up-to-date services.

Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.

I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also ...

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.

Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and ...

I can't start my day without hearing 'Waiting On the World to Change' by John Mayer. It's my alarm clock and my favorite song.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

One age is like another for the soul.

Jameel McCline acts as if attacking Wladimir Klitschko is akin to attacking Russia during winter

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the ...

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a ...

A penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe ...

A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.

If I survive this, I can't go back. I'll have to move forward and I don't know what that means.

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about.

If this person is a blackmailer, El, I want you to have nothing more to do with it. Blackmailers are dangerous."Her brows rose. "You've had ...

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large numbers of people ...

Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by ...

'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the ...

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are.

It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation.

Part of me misses you so much it hurts, while part of me wishes I never even met you to begin with

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

The trick about falling is to catch yourself before you hit the dirt.

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk ...

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days.

But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out ...

Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors ...

You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes people ...

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

JULIAN ALBANS'S PRECEPT Sometimes it's good to start over. - Julian Albans

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't ...

Let the others have beauty. I've got the charisma.

I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.

I really do take more vacations than the president. You can quote me on that.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

Those who look carefully and steadily into God's Word and obey its principles will find that those very principles will bring great blessing into their ...

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

We've had fifteen years of being grown-ups when we could have got together and we never have. Doesn't that tell you something?''Yeah, that timing is ...

I don't want to grow up, I want to grow down

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn ...

Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush.

Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from ...

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's ...

We ought not confuse our concepts with reality or even with the best way of thinking about the worlds in which we live, which themselves ...

You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even ...

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these ...

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Not like a heaven where you ride unicorns, play harps, and live in a mansion made of clouds. But yes. I believe in something with ...

All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants ...

She abhorred the expression Everything happens for a reason. Certainly there were consequences to everything that happened, but that was an entirely different prospect.

The corner of her mouth curled and she said, "It'd be rude to turn down a chance to drink with a cowboy, now wouldn't it?

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For ...

The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Heroes don't always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.

No matter what, you always will be my angel, the light that saved me from the darkness.

What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!

It was still early, and though the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather ...

How people will talk about one's doings!" Fancy exclaimed."Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can't blame other people for singing 'em.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

His casual, almost flippant, mention of it took her by surprise and made her feel cool and tart, like tasting lime for the first time.

To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

Letting someone touch you in the place where it hurts the most, if I could do that, if I could just do that, well, that ...

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint ... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love ...

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a ...

Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, ...

There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction.