List of Topics starting with [J]

Thank you. Thank you, Noah, thank you, thank you.By sundown, Thea could throw the damned thing with deadly accuracy. At bedtime, she asked if Noah ...

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Life is what happens when you're waiting.

I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all ...

May your love of hate and hate to love be dusted from this Earth.

He smelled like oak and grass and wood fires.He Smelled like memories. Like years and years of memories.

I prefer the company of books.

I have never seen anyone die for the ontological argument.

I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

Jacob looks like a totally normal young man. He's clearly intelligent. But having his day disrupted probably makes him feel the same way I would ...

As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.

Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.

The person who truly wants nothing except his destiny no longer has others of his own kind; he stands completely alone and has only the ...

It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don't ...

Myth 1: Happiness Is the Natural State for All Human Beings

I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. ...

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and ...

Of late years wealth has made us greedy, and self-indulgence has brought us, through every kind of sensual excess, to be, if I may so ...

Don't stay away from me anymore."I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't lie. He opens his eyes. ...

This means that the blood of Jesus also offers us protection from any form of condemnation. When you have a revelation that Jesus' blood has ...

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, ...

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

Shoot you down. Bang bang.

Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

I wondered how long an adult could talk to a kid without using the word "but." About forty seconds'd be the record for most of ...

If you're making all your money simply betting on interest rates, that's not a business. Flow is a business. On the outside, they look the ...

He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things.

It's amazing what we remember as sports fans, right?

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The ...

I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people.

She was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this ...

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By ...

Tristran and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse,

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ...

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

Hey Jacob! I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me.I ...

Fan...fucking...tastic I can't do this I didn't sign up for this shit Tria thought "Yeah...Sure Agres." Tria responded rather unhappily "We can still do some ...

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes ...

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

The more dressed up you were to begin with, the worse you look after you've crawled out of a smashed hansom cab and fallen into ...

To be a good writer, one must be homosexual.

Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

Death is misery! The lifeless person was once full of life.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

This is exactly how Satan works, not through what seems grotesque and repulsive, but through what seduces us.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would ...

I was just existing, but he made me want to live.

Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!

Monty Jones: Dad, is there a word to describe answers that are completely correct but entirely useless under the circumstances?Professor Jones: Yes, yes there is.

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working ...

I've never seen faith move mountains, but I've seen what it can do to skyscrapers.

As soon as I arrived, I went to the head inn, held by Mr. Creighton, a silly, despicable man, but privileged in having an excellent ...

DON'T GIVE IT ANOTHER THOUGHT," he said. "WE'RE PALS, AREN'T WE? WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? I'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU.

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was ...

Don't judge your running by your speed.

Looking back ... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at ...

I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone ...

He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live. - ...

My work became an exploration of non-intention.

I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back.

I think I'm a big romantic.

If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things ...

Life is hard - if you think it's hard.

XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan ...

It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people's invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on ...

I do love you, Jack. You've been the only person in my life I've ever said that to. And you'll be the only person from ...

I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ...

When people say "How dumb do you think I am?" I answer "You can't possibly be as dumb as I think you are." 09-19-2014

What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to ...

Way into bed five. He was a man,

Life is just a chair of bowlies

Lucy was kinda like the Ravens - rough-looking on the outside but full of awesome.

Nothing is trivial.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

Principle comes first; action thereafter.

Unfortunately, we live in a society of people who take. We love our things and use people when we should be using our things and ...