J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.”
“Just always be extremely respectful, was something that was drilled into me, which I think probably prevented me from having sex for a good seven years longer than it should have.”
“Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.”
Source: But She Is My Student
“Just always be waiting for me.”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“Just always believe in yourself. "Champions adjust." It's a line I learned from Billie Jean King, and sometimes your dream adjusts. Be willing to adjust with it and see where your opportunities ... sometimes a door closes but a window opens, so just follow your dreams and continue. You never know where it's going to take you.”
“Just always believe in yourself... and dreams - and dreams do come true. For me to play in the same city I grew up in, I mean... I'm definitely blessed. But just always believe in yourself. And work hard. And dreams definitely come true.”
“Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Just an idea.” He waved a thick hand. “I think Auden meant that whenever there’s a gift there’s a guilty secret, a thorn in the flesh. Both things are given at once, and the nature of one depends on the other.”
Source: The Secret of Lost Things
“Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!”
“Just an observation, that's all.
Yeah a damn good one.”
Source: Putsch: Volume I Chapter Sampler
“Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the laws of nations and all well-grounded and municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773
“Just another case of sometimes. Sometimes fates plans are different from your own. Sometimes the beautiful things are right in your reach but you settle for things that are good enough to make you happy. Sometimes people that should be trying harder than ever, give up on you. Sometimes feelings are so strong that you decide its time to give up. Sometimes giving up is the worst thing you can do. Sometimes people think it'll all work out. Sometimes people think it'll get better in time. Sometimes people do what they can do today, tomorrow. Sometimes the most beautiful emotions are the ones that are most neglected. Sometimes people mistaken love for lust. Sometimes people miscommunicate. Sometimes people say things that they don't really mean. Sometimes people say things that they mean and just say them wrong. Sometimes people think they've moved on. Sometimes people think that they will never move on. Sometimes people share they're lives with people that they don't really love. Sometimes people let the people they really love pass through they're lives. Sometimes people chose to stay alive. Sometimes people chose to live.”
“Just another cold, misty morning inviting, "want to go again?"”
Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“Just another day in the shambles.”
Source: Thresholds
“Just another four-letter word.”
“Just another in a long line of broken lonely men who had convinced themselves that power and wealth could fill the empty void at the centre of their souls.”
Source: A Song of Me and You
“Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.”
“Just Another Number was meant to be unresolved because resolving it would destroy its authenticity. It's a memoir. I am unresolved as a human being. And it also leaves room for a sequel.”
“Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.”
Source: Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost
“Just another photograph of a picture from my past.
Our souls knew how to love, but our egos won the part, of sabotage, broken hearts.
Filled with empty promises of rekindling from the stars.
Cosmically connected, interwined in the flame,
We may walk different earth journeys for now, but my spirit is still with you every single moment you wake.
You don't part with a love like that, easily anyway.”
“Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.”
“Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.”
“Just another version of glade
Their sharp thoughts lost the axe’s blade
Wooden world requires a chopper
Where serpent becomes grasshopper
Arm-in-arm with arms; dice with death
Ant artilleries curse their breath
From the poem: For Them”
Source: To Evince the Blue
“Just answer the questions so I can get the fuck out of this backwards shithole before I start wanting to root a goat and marry my own brother.”
“Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.”
“Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc
“just as a autumn transforms a beautiful tree, fully ablaze in only its best colors, and blooming in full wisdom from all the seasons, so will the words well spoken bring out the best in the one who puts them into practice”
Source: Bodhi Simplique Impressionist Photography and Insights
“Just as a ball may slip through your fingers, don't let a thought slip through your mind.”
“Just as a biologist cannot find life by dissecting it, an artist cannot find beauty by analyzing it.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something”
“Just as a butterfly emerges from its cocoon, your struggles can lead to beautiful transformation.”
“Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
“Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.”
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates”
“Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.”
Source: Visual Thinking
“Just as a child cries out in the dark to make a sign of its own persona, which, in its infinite fear, it senses is insufficient, so men, who in the solitude of their empty spirit feel insufficient, inadequately affirm themselves, feigning the sign of the persona they do not have, “knowledge,” as if it were already in their hands. They no longer hear the voice of things telling them, “You are,” and amidst the obscurity they do not have the courage to endure, but each seeks his companion’s hand and says, “I am, you are, we are,” so that the other might act the mirror and tell him,“you are, I am, we are”; and together they repeat, “we are, we are, because we know, because we can tell each other the words of knowledge, of free and absolute consciousness.” Thus do they stupefy one another.”
Source: Persuasion and Rhetoric
“Just as a child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, so is grace freely given by God, in sacred moment of salvation.”
“Just as a child is freely given, so is God's grace.”
“Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.”
“Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.”
“Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something that was bigger than me, and something so historical that I could be a part of. I didn't find that until I stepped into the ballet world, and it was overwhelming, the feeling of being a part of something that's bigger than you.”
“Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.”
“Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.”
“Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit, a species, when integrated with others into a wider genus. For instance, “table” is a species of the genus “furniture,” which is a species of the genus “household goods,” which is a species of the genus “man-made objects.” “Man” is a species of the genus “animal,” which is a species of the genus “organism,” which is a species of the genus “entity.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Just as a couple serves each other when they’re in love, I, too, want my adoration for Jesus to penetrate everything I do.”
Source: Coffee Shop Devos: Daily Devotional Pick-Me-Ups for Teen Girls
“Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.”
“Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.”
“Just as a door can be opened from the inside to allow us out, the same door can allow the outside in. The inhabitants of Dy5topia, namely the 'nOmen'―picture 1940’s style, film noir gangsters, that possess dark 'supernatural' powers―engage in behaviors that allow them 'passage' into our world...where encounters can and do occur.”
Source: DY5TOPIA: A Field Guide to the Dark Universe of Chet Zar