List of Topics starting with [J]

THE CITY IS TOO REAL.

It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties.

Of what use to humanity, I ask myself, is a man who cannot see beyond his own hurt?

Men's works make men disdainful, but mother nature's make men ashamed. This is the scale for their difference.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a ...

A place is only as good as the people in it.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.

Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!

You might not be aware of this, but it takes more than bright lights to damage a Marine. We've been highly trained to deal with ...

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is ...

She exclaimed with all the anxiety of a worried mother, the sternness of an academy principal, and the relief of a farmer feeling spring's first ...

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

It was a large bay gelding, which for Ty translated to big-ass brown horse.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and ...

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to ...

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heartand I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. ...

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my ...

Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

The greater the faith, the greater the result.

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when ...

Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I ...

If you live in a country where the majority is blind, you'll find it difficult to find the way

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not ...

British Empire acted as an agency for imposing free markets, the rule of law, investor protection and relatively incorrupt government on roughly a quarter of ...

Pinner. "'Thank you very much,' said he; 'I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very material assistance ...

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear. These victims of ...

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on ...

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a ...

His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew.

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.

Okay. I'll help you fight. What do you think we're up against? Bears, Coyotes ... ""My Brother.

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Your mind must control, but you must have heart ... Give your feeling free.

The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed ...

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual ... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be ...

There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in ...

Do you think there could be a universe next door?

Color is a matter of taste and sensitivity.

Listen, your asshole is precious. It deserves to be shown love, and that's all I'm doing. Let me live. Let your asshole live.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are ...

Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into ...

Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.

I served the Poland that existed.

Maybe the job of a mother is not to shelter but to bear witness as a child hits full force . . . and then ...

The hour was growing nigh for crustacean vengeance.

The sweetest flower that blows,I give you as we part.For you it is a Rose,For me it is my heart.

I always knew the teachers were out to get me.

Anger will always stand in the way of your dreams. Don't let anyone take your dreams.

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious ...

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him ...

She rearranged her legs again. If she kept doing that, it was possible that I might begin to bugle like a stallion. Which would not ...

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating ...

Are you there? If your mind is not there, you are not there! You are wherever your mind is wandering!

We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more ...

I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have ...

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

Keep looking up..that's the secret of life...

Ha!" she exclaims as the music shifts. "Wait until tonight." "Marlee!

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties.

While in the past we may have wanted loyal employees, today we need flexible people who are not possessive about "the way things are done ...

Look at yourself, you're old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.

Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minutes earlier and announced that a crazed Ethiope was at the door, ...

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the ...

The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of ...

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our ...

Listen to understand rather than listen to respond.

It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot and I was on ...

Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

Of all the brouhahas of the universe, human problem is the problem.

How apostles are received is a key measuring stick as to how the Lord will release blessings or judgements on a territory. Apostles also have ...

Usually when I'm stressed, I'll eat everything not nailed down. Only small children and family pets are safe. And okra - I won't eat okra ...

You've got to learn your instrument.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle ...

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains ...

The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, ...

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively ...

The only thing I use my body for is to carry my brain around.

Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an' lose yo'self in it.

A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,' I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)

CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest ...

Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by ...

A lot of things seem one way but are another. And how a thing seems is often just the game we play to save ourselves ...

Knowing what doesn't make you happy is equally important as knowing what does!

Wait", I say. "That's-you-what?""That's what I love about working with you, Valchek. Your eloquence.""But -but- but-""And your motorboat impressions.""Charlie, if you were there, why didn't ...

Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That ...

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he ...

Modeling is a lonely business.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters.