J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”
“Just as modern science has created novel vaccines and drugs to eliminate many "natural diseases", with enough knowledge we can create personal, social, and legal environments that curtail or suppress the components of male psychology that contribute to sexual coercion.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Just as most American employers give us ‘at will’ employments, our entire existence has become subject to their will. We have arrived at a point where most of our stress is a result of not knowing whether we will get the next paycheck. Exploitative employers love it this way. So long as we are afraid, they are sure to get 100 percent submission from us. We cannot let our toxic way of working be accepted as the norm and as the typical American work ethics. We deserve and can do much, much better than this.”
“Just as mountains stand tall with resilience, Compassionate AI rises with an unwavering commitment to understanding and serving humanity.”
Source: Ethical AI Systems: Frameworks, Principles, and Advanced Practices
“Just as Mozart could hear an entire symphony in his head, just as Tesla could envision an invention before it's invented, I dance with words through infinity.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Just as much as she loved him, he did too. He only loved money and power more.”
Source: Tajrish
“Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse.”
Source: Harry's Fight: Harry Marsden - From Catholic Care Home Abuse To Gangster To Good Fellow
“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
“Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience.”
“Just as music courses enhance our appreciation by dissecting melody, rhythm, and harmony, Funny Stuff accomplishes a similar feat for gag cartoons.”
“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.”
“Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.”
Source: Racism 101
“Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.”
Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
“Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.”
Source: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
“Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.”
“Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.”
Source: THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION
“Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one’s house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.”
Source: The Ethics of Liberty
“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
Source: Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said
“Just as "normal" as anyone... only I write my thoughts out on paper & illustrate a world of Romance in your mind as you read my creations. ~ A. L. Woodz”
“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.”
Source: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
“Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.”
“Just as not requiring a child to reason critically will stunt her intellect, not stressing a child's bones, muscles and immune systems will fail to match these organ's capacities to their demands.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages--and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback--so must our students spend many hours practicing the basic intellectual skills of our discipline.”
Source: Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
“Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.”
Source: Self-realization
“Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.”
“Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.”
“Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.”
Source: Calder in Connecticut
“Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.”
“Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”
“Just as one does not have to touch fire to feel its effects, getting in the proximity of sin is harmful enough.”
“Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our physical salvation in the life that now is.”
“Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.”
“Just as one has encountered a nimit (someone instrumental in a process) to bind him, if he encounters a nimit to set him free, he will set him free without fail. He who is free (from worldly bondage) can free others. One such free man exists once in awhile. Moksha (ultimate liberation) is not rare but a bestower of liberation is very rare indeed.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married.”
“Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.”
“Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer
“Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.”
Source: The Regis touch: million-dollar advice from America's top marketing consultant
“Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.”
“Just as open doors let the steam out of a steam bath, so does the person with lips constantly open lose their inner composure.”
Source: Karlaz: The Way of Freedom
“Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience helps us develop the full potential Heavenly Father desires for us in becoming celestial beings worthy some day to live in His presence.”
“Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother's milk for a baby.”
Source: The Timeless Path
“Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.”
Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America
“Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.”
“Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.”
“Just as our hearts can break to learn how to beat, change ushers in the dances we need. Everything is a newborn gift and a new chance. Everything leads the way- through darkness opening to light. Compassion, forgiveness and inner sight usher us into the ever-twinkling starlight.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.”
Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.”