J Quotes
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“Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates dominate the airwaves, independent media like Citizen Radio is vital to national discourse.”
“Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night”
“Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?”
“Jamie Raskin, the brilliant and perpetually disheveled Maryland Democrat, asked me about internet conspiracies that alleged I was beaten by the mob because I was mistaken for an Antifa agitator. I stifled a smile. "Well, I was in full uniform. I was wearing my uniform shirt adorned with the Metropolitan Police Department's patch. I had my badge on until somebody ripped it off my chest." I could have added that I also wore a jacket with the words," METROPOLITAN POLICE" stenciled across the back and a helmet emblazoned with the letters "MPDC." Keeping a straight face, I told Raskin, "I do not believe I was mistaken for a member of Antifa.”
Source: Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul
“Jamie’s eyes gleamed. “God forgive me, I want there to be a murderer after the Falconer family so we in the College feel less to blame.”
Source: Murder on Family Grounds
“JAMIE'S SONG 'August and November':
They say it was a beautiful summer.
I say I felt so cold the whole short while.
I heard that it rained for days,
Between August and November.
Well I didn’t see it rain on the enslaved river.
I am the river no more (x2)
And the rain is just acid water from their cloudy black smoke.
And now I’m at a standstill on the streets,
That are lit up like a funfair from some forgotten dream.
Yet faces, headlights, and the whole world passes by me.
Without taking a step, I’m down in the hole too.
And if it rains this coming
Dark and lonely December,
I will never watch it fall on the entrapped river.
I am the river no more (x2)
And the rain is acid water from their cloudy black smoke.”
Source: Chasing Pavements
“JAMIE'S SONG 'Bright Blue Dream':
I watch the world go round and round.
And see the sun go up and down.
I think I’ve heard most every sound
Except your voice.
I feel the river by my feet.
And let the tears dry indiscrete.
Seems the horizon’s incomplete
Without your face.
The world is a colder place,
Shadows everywhere you used to be.
Darker than the darkest nights I’ve seen.
And I try go back to that
Bright blue dream.
When there was nothing, there was nothing, but you and me.
Clear blue sky.
Yes there was something, there was something, I could not see.”
Source: Chasing Pavements
“JAMIE'S SONG 'I Had No Choice':
I had no choice, I had to be hers.
And now she’s gone, I have to be hurt.
She’s not the one that I wanted,
She’s just the one that I had.
She’s not the one that I’d chosen,
She’s just the one I got given.
I never said, ‘Hey, she’s the one for me,’
It was already built in me.
I didn’t say, ‘Hey, she’s so pretty,’
It’s just these eyes were made to see… her.
I had no choice, I had to be hers.
And now she’s gone, I have to be hurt.
I had no choice, that’s how it was written.
I had no choice, that’s the life I got given.”
Source: Chasing Pavements
“JAMIE'S SONG 'LOVE TRANSFUSION':
I’m not sleeping nights,
I’m not doing good.
I’m not eating right,
have no use for food.
All I do is bleed dry for you.
But somehow I survive,
And wake up with more love for you.
It’s not blood running through my veins, it’s you.
I’ve had a strange blood transfusion,
To add to my confusion.
It’s not compatible;
I’m going hysterical.
It’s some kind of love transfusion.
Love transfusion.
Love transfusion.
I’ve had a strange blood transfusion.
Blood transfusion.
Blood transfusion.
It’s not blood running through my veins, it’s you.”
Source: Chasing Pavements
“JAMIE'S SONG 'Million Years/Billion Deaths':
Every beat of my heart says,
‘Who’d wanna be a heart?’
Every cell in my body,
Wants to split apart.
Though I know I have to be strong.
And I’m sure I won’t have to wait long.
But when each day lasts forever,
And when every night lasts much longer,
Tell me how am I supposed to go on?
But if each moment with you,
Lasts as long as these lonely nights do,
Then I’d wait a million years for you.
Yes, I’ll wait a million years for you.
And I’ll die a billion deaths to get to you.
To get to you…
Every breath I take whispers,
‘Who’d wanna be in love?’
Every vein in my body,
Has bled dry, my love.
Though I know I have to be strong.
And I’m sure I won’t have to wait long.
But when each day lasts forever,
And when every night lasts much longer,
Tell me how am I supposed to go on?
But if each moment with you,
Lasts as long as these lonely nights do,
Then I’d wait a million years for you.
Yes, I’ll wait a million years for you.
And I’ll die a billion deaths to get to you.
To get to you…”
Source: Someone Like You
“JAMIE'S SONG 'She':
There’s something about her eyes.
I don’t know what I see.
She wears a cloak of lies.
I don’t know what I mean.
She hides behind those eyes.
Will she let me in?
I could feel the barrier between,
Her and the world and sea.
She is not what she may seem.....”
Source: Chasing Pavements
“JAMIE'S SONG 'UN-BROKE':
Un-broke and,
All is well.
I did not expect that.
Unspoken,
All I felt.
I should not have done that.
But now that is all behind me.
Something else, something more defines me.
I could be scattered all over the world again,
And I would still be me.
Find my way back here again.
Though I don’t think that could happen,
I feel so unbreakable,
Now that I am un-broke.
Like the wind,
I floated.
I could not change one thing.
Like the trees,
I stood there.
Branches swayed bare in Spring.
My darkest days are behind me.
Blinding sun and stars always find me.
I could be shattered into the abyss again,
But I would still be free.
Climb out of the hole again.
I’ll see the skies that never darken.
I know I’m unbreakable,
Now that I am un-broke.”
Source: Chasing Pavements
“JAMIE'S SONG 'WHERE YOU ARE':
I left my heart at your door,
Don’t tread on it on your way out.
It’s convulsing on the floor,
Can’t you hear it scream and shout?
I dropped my life by your feet,
Don’t kick it as you walk down the street.
I put my dreams in your hand,
Don’t let them slip through your fingers like grains of sand.
And my eyes will watch you from afar,
Guide you like a shooting star.
And you’ll see that I’ll always be where you are.
Where you are.
Yes, you know that I’ll always be where you are.
Yes my eyes will watch you from afar,
Guide you like a shooting star.
And you’ll see that I’ll always be where you are.
Where you are.”
Source: Someone Like You
“Jamie said in that voice of his, "You never saw us."
"I never saw you," the driver repeated, sounding dazed.
"You drove this astonishingly hot underwear model from south Texas. You wanted to lick his abs."
"I wanted to lick his abs."
"You're such an asshole," Stella muttered as she climbed out of the cab.”
Source: The Retribution of Mara Dyer
“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”
Source: A Walk to Remember
“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter”
“Jamie spied a Hershey's almond bar still in its wrapper lying in the corner of the landing. He picked it up and tore open one corner.
"Was it bitten into?" asked Claudia.
"No," Jamie smiled. "Want half?"
"You better not touch it," Claudia warned. "It's probably poisoned or filled with marijuana, so you'll eat it and become either dead or a dope addict".
Jamie was irritated. "Couldn't it just happen that someone dropped it?"
"I doubt that. Who would drop a whole candy bar and not know it? That's like leaving a statue in a taxi".”
Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Jamie! That's our grandbaby.”
Source: An Alaskan Christmas Promise
“Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand she showed how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life really is all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed . . . Jamie also thought me the value of forgiveness and the transforming power it offers . . . Jamie was not only the angel who saved Tom Thornton, she was the angel who saved us all.”
“Jamie was not my first hero. The man moved too quickly through the field hospital, as a rule, for the nurses to become well acquainted with them, but now and again you would see a man who talked too little or joked too much, who held himself more stiffly than pain and loneliness would account for.
And I knew, roughly, what could be done for them. If there was time, and if they were the kind who talked to keep the dark at Bay, you sat with them and listened. If they were silent, you touched them often in passing, and watched for the unguarded moment, when you might draw them outside of themselves and hold them while they exorcised their demons. If there was time. And if there wasn't, then you jabbed them with morphine, and hoped they would manage to find someone else to listen, while you passed on to a man whose wounds were visible.”
“Jamie was right. It is a powerful moment when you witness someone cross from this world to the next. It's an honor, really.”
Source: Sisters in the Wind
“Jamie, what a lovely surprise,” Charlie smiled as I approached. “Come to take me home?”
I ignored him and searched for what I needed. Dragging a small table over, I stepped on it to face him directly—and punched him right in the nose. “You son of a bitch!” I pointed. “You crossed the line, old man!” Wide-eyed, Charlie stepped back, holding his nose.
Hopping off the table, I straightened my shirt and made for the exit, only to hear Charlie’s cutesie comment to the people around us.”
Source: A Sinful Silence
“Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?”
“Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.”
“Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.”
Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but caught himself on the edge of the mantelpiece. His eyes drifted around the room, then fixed on my face. For an instant, they blazed clear and pellucid with intelligence. "och, easy, Sassenach, If ye can stand up, you're not drunk." He let go of the mantelpiece, took a step toward me, and crumpled slowly onto the hearth, eyes blank, and a wide, sweet smile on his dreaming face.”
Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn
“Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"”
“Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.”
“Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once.”
“Jamming - which follows rules but not individual notes - gives you a different result each time, depending upon the players and the conditions in which they find themselves. It is adaptable to changing conditions.”
“Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.”
“Jammu and Kashmir's suddenly silence should not be taken as peace”
“Jamás conocerán los hombres el bienestar bajo un régimen de comunidad de bienes. ¿Por qué medios se podrá conseguir la prosperidad común si todos se niegan a trabajar? Nadie tendrá un estímulo personal, y la confianza en que todos trabajan le hará perezoso. Por otra parte, si la miseria subleva los espíritus y ya no es posible adquirir nada como propio, ¿no caerá la sociedad de modo fatal y constante en la rebelión y la venganza? Si, además, desaparece la autoridad de los jueces y el temor saludable que inspiran, ¿qué papel pueden tener en la sociedad hombres para quienes no existiría ninguna diferencia social? Es algo que ni siquiera me atrevo a imaginar.”
Source: Utopia
“Jamás debes evitar el riesgo, aunque el miedo te frene.”
Source: Letter to a Child Never Born
“Jamás existirá un Estado realmente libre e iluminado hasta cuando ese Estado reconozca al individuo como un poder más alto e independiente, del cual se deriva su propio poder y autoridad y lo trate de acuerdo a ello. Me complace imaginar un Estado que finalmente pueda darse el lujo de ser justo con todos, y que trate al individuo con respecto; más aún, que no llegue a pensar que es inconsistente con su propia tranquilidad si unos cuantos viven separados de él, no mezclándose con él, sin abrazarlo, pero cumpliendo con su obligación de vecinos y compañeros.”
Source: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
“Jamás habían luchado, y solo en la lucha se engarzan el sentimentalismo y la lujuria para dar amor”
Source: Maurice
“Jamás hagas algo guiado por la compasión, Chris, es una mala consejera.”
Source: La abuela
“Jamás las consecuencias de los actos emprendidos por una sola persona resultarían tan relevantes para el mundo. Comenzaba una nueva era.”
Source: Pizarro y la conquista del Imperio Inca
“Jamás sanaría su repulsa a la gente bienpensante,
al aburrimiento como fuente de pensamiento, al lado
cursi del amado, del arte, del poderoso el lamento,
del cristiano, del ayuntamiento,
amando, como amaba, la estulticia de la bohemia.”
Source: De repente un verano
“Jamás te sientas así. Nadie debería gritarte ni hacerte creer que ha sido tu culpa.”
Source: Boulevard
“Jan 1899 You must aim at the Staff College, but for the love of God never become a professional Staff Officer. Never lose touch with the troops. Remember that you serve the troops and it is the troops who matter. They are the folk who win victories, take care of your men and they will never let you down.”
Source: Diary of a Black Sheep
“Jan Bhagidari is the biggest asset of a democracy. We are increasing it through MyGov, letters from citizens, Mann Ki Baat and other initiatives.”
“Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.”
“Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably pure, without a twinge of conscience or shame.”
Source: Birth of the Firebringer
“Jan Dhan Yojana is at the core of our philosophy of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' & we will work towards its success.”
“Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.”
“Jan Hindman knows all too well that people who have lied for decades about their offending would lie to her about being victimized as a child, so she compared the reports of abuse by child molesters who were not being polygraphed on their answers with a later group who was informed that they would have to take a polygraph after the interview. The group that was being polygraphed was also given immunity from prosecution for crimes previously unknown in order to take away one of the many reasons that offenders lie.[103]
The study is not about how good the polygraph is — although it appears to be highly accurate[104] and better than people are at detecting deception in any case. Rather, this study is about how good the offenders thought the polygraph was because the answers of the group who was going to take the polygraph turned out to be very different from the group who was going to take the polygraph turned out very different from the group who wasn't going.
In a series of three studies, the offenders who claimed they were abused as a child were 67 percent, 65 percent, and 61 percent without the threat of a polygraph. With polygraph (and conditional immunity), the offenders who claimed they were abused as children were 29 percent, 32 percent, and 30 percent, respectively. The polygraph groups reported approximately half the amount of victimization as children as the nonpolygraph groups did.
Nonetheless, the notion that most offenders were victims has spread throughout the field of sexual abuse and is strangely comforting for most professionals. For one thing, it gives meaning to the behavior of offenders and at the same time allows people to feel badly for them. I remember a cartoon in which a man is lying in a gutter, badly beaten. Two social workers stand over him, and one says to the other, "The man who did this really needs help." If offenders are just victims, then no one has to face the reality of malevolence, the fact that there are people out there who prey on other for reasons we simply don't understand.”
Source: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders
“Jan Hindman knows all too well that people who have lied for decades about their offending would lie to her about being victimized as a child, so she compared the reports of abuse by child molesters who were not being polygraphed on their answers with a later group who was informed that they would have to take a polygraph after the interview. The group that was being polygraphed was also given immunity from prosecution for crimes previously unknown in order to take away one of the many reasons that offenders lie.[103]
The study is not about how good the polygraph is — although it appears to be highly accurate[104] and better than people are at detecting deception in any case. Rather, this study is about how good the offenders thought the polygraph was because the answers of the group who was going to take the polygraph turned out very different from the group who wasn't going.
In a series of three studies, the offenders who claimed they were abused as a child were 67 percent, 65 percent, and 61 percent without the threat of a polygraph. With polygraph (and conditional immunity), the offenders who claimed they were abused as children were 29 percent, 32 percent, and 30 percent, respectively. The polygraph groups reported approximately half the amount of victimization as children as the nonpolygraph groups did.
Nonetheless, the notion that most offenders were victims has spread throughout the field of sexual abuse and is strangely comforting for most professionals.”
Source: Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders
“Jan Pronk, voormalig minister voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, legde onlangs een rechtstreeks verband tussen het slavernijverleden en de huidige achterstanden in Afrika. Een onzinnige constatering. Slavernij kwam ook in Azië voor. Waarom zie je die enorme achterstanden nu niet ook in Azië terug? Het was ook maar een minderheid van de slaven die door de Europeanen naar de nieuwe wereld werd gebracht. De meerderheid werd in Afrika zelf verhandeld of ging naar het Midden-Oosten.”
Source: Het zwart-witdenken voorbij: Een bijdrage aan de discussie over kolonialisme, slavernij en migratie
“Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.”