J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just like a sculptor takes time to mould a sculpture, take your time to hone your skills too.”
“Just like a seed doesn’t turn into a tree the next day after sowing it. In a similar fashion, your idea takes time as well.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Just like a seed that needs intensive care to grow into a magnificent tree, a child needs the same amount of love, effort, care, and kindness to grow into a healthy, aware, responsible adult.
A sapling doesn't grow with neglect, thirst, or underfeeding, and neither do children. Fulfilling their various needs will help them grow into fine grown-ups who repay kindness with kindness, and return love with love.”
“Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.”
Source: The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles
“Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.”
“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
“Just like a tree,
we carry a perfect glare
but deep down our roots lie in vain.”
Source: Home To Soul: Collection Of Nature Poetry
“Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.”
“Just like a vocal range, everybody has a feelings range: some people can hit the mood, others are feeling-deaf.”
Source: Use Passive Restraint, Bitch
“Just like Ah allus say: when yuh got money yuh kin git anything in this man's country. Whenever things look tight jes pull out th' ole check book an' eve'ything's all right.”
Source: Black No More
“Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?”
“Just like always, men are their own worst enemies.”
Source: Bearers of the Black Staff
“Just like an actor’s name sinks into oblivion when people stop watching his films, if we refuse to engage in any form of animal cruelty then these inhumane things can’t survive long.”
“Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.”
“Just like an angel, the lovely one and the cute
All the beauty together in your funny sulky looks
Innocent, like the kids, like the pigeons in my garden
Magnetic attraction, awesome, amazing and the super astute
Immortal charming, like the moon and the stars
Elegant, stylish, you must be very tasty, fruit”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Just like an incense we must burn to bring our true essence out.”
“Just like an old couple…I don’t see his dashing smile and green eyes anymore, I only see his fears, his rudeness, I see everything I need and that he is not. Maybe here is the mistake; how could I ever think another person could make ME complete?”
Source: Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time
“Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.”
Source: The Life of the Cosmos
“Just like an organic to be so binary in their logic. A thing can be a thing and also not a thing, you know.”
Source: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel
“just like any and everything else
things are never what they seem
people change or maybe they simply
revert back to everything they’re supposed to be”
Source: I hope this reaches her in time
“Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.”
“Just like any civilized person, you’ve spent practically your whole life torturing an innocent wild creature. Starved it, then force-fed it, cut it, cursed it, driven it to exhaustion. Imprisoned it with other creatures who tormented it.”
“What?” Diana shakes her head in miserable confusion. “I don’t
even kill spiders! I never wanted to hurt anything.”
“The innocent wild creature to which I refer, my darling, is you.”
Source: Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
“Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.”
“Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.”
“Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans!”
“Just like backing out of the driveway… If the driveway was ten miles long, full of rocks and pits, with lethal radiation hovering above, waiting to smite you.”
Source: The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
“Just like beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder , usefulness lies in the brain of the user”
“Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.”
Source: Mastering the Art of French Cooking
“Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences.”
Source: Mastering the Art of French Cooking
“Just like birds trying to fly towards the sun as the sun goes down, a person who is giving his last breath also tries to reach the light in vain!”
“Just like Brad Pitt and what's her name!”
“JUST LIKE CANDY is a delicious, decadent treat.”
“Just like cars and other products have models that look alike, a school's students MUST ALL look alike. Their uniforms. Their textbooks. Their bags (Yeah) Their capabilities (Yes) Their "content of character" The kinds of students in your school must be similar ENOUGH to "look alike". They must CONFORM to a standard that guarantees that they look alike. Teachers must use systems and SOPs that guarantees that the student look alike. The goal is simple. Many schools don't get this. Vision statements, mission statements, tagline and all when used well guarantees that ALL students look alike.”
“Just like caterpillars who
come into this world to undergo a process of transformation and evolve from ugly, earth-crawling creatures to majestic, magnificently
colored butterflies. Humans are also born to engage in a process of gradual and perpetual transformation, aiming to progress from tiny,
helpless newborns to empowered, knowledgeable, and skillful
individuals.”
Source: THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being
“Just like charity, abuse begins at home.”
Source: Tadow - Vivid Echoes of Modern India
“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.”
Source: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“Just like cities, memories also have many avenues and some people walk around the same avenue over and over again just like mad people who walk back and forth on the same avenue!”
“Just like competence and performance, good performers are not necessarily the best of leaders.”
“Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.”
Source: Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files
“Just like delegation, the act of navigating politics in an organization is slippery. The difference between a manager who knows what’s going on in an organization and one who is a purely politically driven slimeball is thin. But I would take either of those over some passive manager who lets the organization happen to him. Politically active managers are informed managers. They know when change is afoot and they know what action to take to best represent their organization in that change.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“Just like discipline beats motivation, so too does personal development win over tactics.”
Source: sciVive
“Just like dust, we settle in this town.”
“Just like every falling star, new, unique, fleeting, and changing; trust in your own resilience and your ability to navigate through uncertain times.”
“Just like every family needs a pillar,
Every generation needs a rock.
All may sprinkle salt on each other's wounds,
You for one, be the ointment to the epoch.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.”
“Just like every other demon. Jace felt a flicker of something — boredom? — as he reached for a seraph blade. All demons were the same: all the ones that could talk, anyway. They sputtered, they denied. They claimed they knew where Valentine was. They offered gold and gems, sometimes. Once one had offered naked dancing girls. Jace had almost taken that one up on the offer. It had been a slow Saturday.
And then Jace’s boredom exploded into a million pieces as the girl with the red hair stepped out from behind a pillar”
Source: We Jace you a Clary Xmas
“Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.”
“Just like every serving of food has an effect on our body, every thought has an effect on our minds.
Just like a single bite of harmful food can ruin the health of our body, a single negative thought can ruin the peace of our mind.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.”
“just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.”