J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.”
“Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.”
“just to know you’re somewhere in this universe”
“Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.”
“Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.”
“Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.”
“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”
Source: The Blue Castle
“Just to love, that's enough; being loved, that's a bonus.”
“Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.”
Source: Magic Burns
“Just to make your eyes sparkle, I'd do anything. I could give it all up to know you were my girl. Just being with you and listening to your laugh is what makes up my other half. I was lost and cold inside when your heart called out to mine. Now I know you're the only thing that keeps me hanging on, when the rest of the world seems to come crashing down." -Jax Stone”
Source: Breathe
“Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.”
Source: Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter
“Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.”
Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from
“Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.”
“Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.”
“Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.”
“Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.”
“Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.”
“Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.”
“Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.”
“Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.”
“Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.”
“Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.”
Source: The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index
“Just to stay focused on my path and not the path that other people or media want to put me in. Just to stay focused on my vision, because I put out what I want people to know about me. Everything else is what the media puts out.”
“Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.”
“Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.”
Source: Superstition and Other Essays
“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.”
“just to watch you
wear light on your skin
and trace peace in your fingertips…
how you smile at me
so easy.
– summertime”
“Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest”
“Just too much fast thinking all the time. I think of so many things all at once, it gets exhausting. You start seeing all of these connections around you . . . Everything is connected, composed, coordinated, choreographed. If you start paying attention to these connections, it can drive you insane. And that's why making work is so good, because that's when I'm not thinking, just making.”
“Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.”
“Just trust me," he finished gently.”
Source: Seeker From the Stars
“Just trust me, Nina.”
“I wouldn’t trust you to tie my shoes without stealing the laces, Kaz.”
Source: Six of Crows
“Just trust us ok.” Selah said.
“Trust you? TRUST YOU?! I DID THAT MY ENTIER LIFE AND NOW YOUR STILL TELING ME TO TRUST YOU?” Abby yelled.
“Because we are your ticket out of there!” Selah said.”
“Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.”
“Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.”
Source: Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II
“Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart.”
“Just try, Bryce. One try. I'll be with you every step of the way. Even if you can't see me. I will always be with you.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“Just try it – try pulling me out by force from this basket and I swear I’ll scratch so many lines on your face you’ll be able to play checkers on it for the next three months.”
Source: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.”
“Just try to do this: write your plans in pencil but give God the eraser. Be still and stay put.”
Source: The Interruption of Everything
“Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.”
“Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998
“Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.”
“Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.”
“Just try to keep your head above water until the boys get back. It's as simple as that.”
“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.”
Source: Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports
“Just try to love, and manifest it. When your heart is open, there is this energy of love that flows in, fulfills everything and somehow transmutes itself into actions.”
“Just try to make people happy.”
“Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.”