List of Topics starting with [J]

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when ...

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, ...

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.

Doubtless any horoscope seems "true" if it tells that you are highly attractive to the opposite sex and your worst fault is generosity.

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings.

I would love to play the President. Give me the suit, give me the power, give me the oval office. That would be really fun.

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

You're a victim from my drive-by of thoughts.

Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom ...

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to ...

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your ...

The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. ...

At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.

I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an ...

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

There is no uprising, not really, there's just a gradual leak. Just the people who know, who want out. She smiled.

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.

I have been abandoned by people I did not want to leave me and I have deserted people who begged me to stay. Yep ... ...

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

Admire all the stars, but what you really must admire is your very own Sun, the cosmic candle of our beloved Earth!

Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous.

You know what would be awesome? ... If I could have a machete.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than ...

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

However, in three months of fighting, and with the men who died or surrendered at Przemysl included, the Austro-Hungarian Army has lost nearly 950,000 men ...

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So ...

Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.

Apart from the machine, everything was shit. At

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

I went to college. Got a master's degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys."She gave her grandmother a wry look. "You ...

Solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside

It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external.

I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.

All is to be doubted.

No, sir.' She withdrew her hand. 'Quoting Shakespeare will get you nowhere.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She ...

If California ever developed a vineyard rating system, Saxum's James Berry Vineyard would be classified as one of the best.

I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like ...

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in ...

Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the ...

Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.

I am Valentine's son. Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern. You never had any right to that name. You're a ghost. And a pretender.

Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness. The

Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.

Years don't mean anything, only what happens in them.

Part of my identity for as long as I can remember is being a baseball player. If I'm not that anymore, then who am I?""Who ...

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You ...

Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

How could she sleep through their last hours together?

That words have the power to change us.

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything ...

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every ...

Just because you have a right to do something in America does not mean it is the right thing to do.

Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, ...

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not ...

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Your default state of living should be in the present, and you should only go into your mind for brief periods. If you are ever ...

She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. "Let me become a cat ...

I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they ...

Friendsor loversare not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding ...

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

If you don't like your teeth; keep your mouth shut.

If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and ...

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business ... so I always resisted it ...

God never disappoints anyone who places his trust in Him.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

I love you, Dawson. I love who you are, what you are. And I don't think love recognizes differences. It just is. And we really ...

That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell ...

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

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

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ...

When you feel every door has slammed shut in your face and locked you out...find that open window and crawl through it.

. . . distant as the death of grocery chickens.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often ...

Sometimes it seems like America is the Christian and Israel is the little Jew they love in this fetishistic way. Like, you're my little sister ...

Everyone gets the message when they're a kid that girls like pink and boys like blue, but she's taken it to a whole new level, ...

Only a madman would try to market headache medicine today under the name John's Headache Pills. This would be insufficiently techno-marvelous. No, the name must ...

Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly ...

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the ...