List of Topics starting with [J]

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South ...

Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an ...

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the ...

I love you, she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. ...

Judging by the lopsided way she was hunched, with one hand buried deep under the lapel of her coat, Strike deduced that he had saved ...

I was a really pretentious teenager.

Peace is the first condition of joy.

This book is a guide to living life the right way, like the Bible is for crazies and weak people (JK, bro), this book should ...

Having money will make you look enticing to women even if you are not a good-looking dude. Don't believe me, go ask Mick Jagger, Donald ...

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there ...

I - drunk!" said Caderousse; "well that's a good one! I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks. Pere ...

The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It ...

A free and independent press is generally considered essential for democracy, both to raise timely questions about debatable government policies and to report challenges to ...

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we ...

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

I saw you in the library.With - "" Colonel Mustard?

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

It's far better to do less and do it well, than to do too much and do it poorly. Sometimes you have to push yourself ...

Jesus said, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you ...

If I can change the world at least 1% to peace, truth and altruistic lovingkindness through my writing, my life will not have been meaningless ...

Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning - ...

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

It was not uncommon for his father to toss out the phrase "Jebem ti supu od klinova Isusovih!" which translated roughly as "Fuck the soup ...

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven.

The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable in this country. ...

As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a ...

You tempt the devil," he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. "Angels always do.

Conceive you - that ass!

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are ...

When you love someone, you treat them well.

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod ...

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

Feeling consolation in the sense that he had found to which division of regulating principles this new circumstance could be properly referred.

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell ...

I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my ...

History is decided with a whisper

When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or ...

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

What's this?" He brought the brown square to his nose."It smells musty.""It's chocolate. You'll love it.""That's what you said about Skittles. I vomited a rainbow ...

We should be helping each other, not hating each other.

The body is a temple, where God dwells.

Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

Damen held himself very still. This easy way of speaking of Auguste was new, and he didn't want to disturb it.After a moment, Laurent said, ...

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

I'll buy something because I love it.

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

There's a time when it all comes together - what you long for and what you fear - and as tentative as you may feel, ...

The Lord will make a way for you where no foot has been before. That which, like a sea, threatens to drown you, shall be ...

My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully ...

People think too much when they're alone.

But now that I'm scrubbingtoilets on my hands & knees,with four degrees,I realize that one escape routeleads to another

There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to ...

Working gets in the way of living.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education ... to raise the lower ranks of society ...

Suddenly, Olver felt a deep warmth. He had lost so many peolpe, but one of them ... one ... had come back for him.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out.

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.

Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.

Conglomeration of all things that make a genius.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue ...

Love gives life.

Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change,

'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other ...

In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than ...

As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.

I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy ...

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

He could wait while I threw some laundry in. That's right ladies. I do laundry.

RON: Only- friends. Funny word- friends. Not that funny. Just a word, really. Friends. Friend. Funny friend. You, my funny friend, my Hermoine. Not that- ...

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.

Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries.

The problem is, March snow days are miracles. You can't live for miracles.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

And thus began BTC, or Boy Toy Corporation. Crazy, right? Crazy fucking genius.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

For several people the challenge with the dream isn't bread & butter but the luxury.

If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in ...

We'll fight 'em until hell freezes over, then we'll fight 'em on the ice.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims ...

The little dragon turned on Vimes a gaze that would be guaranteed to win it the award for Dragon the Judges would Most Like to ...

I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind ...

In public, you're Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you're Jocelyn Butler - you're hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet," he breathed. "I like that I ...

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

When things got weird enough, some always found a lynchrope, it seemed.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.