J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.”
“Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.”
“Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.”
“Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.”
“Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.”
“Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.”
“Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!”
“Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.”
Source: Perfect Match
“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
“Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.”
“Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.”
Source: Simply Irresistible
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.”
“Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful fighters already out there. No Logo is an invigorating call to arms for everybody who wants to save money, justice, or the universe.”
“Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.”
“Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a dark, funny, and smart page-turning crime story. It's also a moving, thoughtful meditation on ethics, religion, family, and a culture that eats itself. I loved this book.”
“Just when you thought you’d done it all, you rise again—stronger, wiser, and crush the next challenge.”
Source: Monster Feelings: Miss Ann Gree
“Just when you thought you knew everything about someone, they had to go one better.”
Source: What a Girl Wants
“Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.”
Source: How to Get from January to December
“Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.”
“Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.”
Source: A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
“Just who are you planning to call? Ghostbusters?”
Source: The Dead Girls' Dance
“Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.”
Source: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
“Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.”
“Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies in the rock itself. Nowhere else in the world is the rock so exfoliated, so glacier-polished and so devoid of handholds. All of the climbing lines follow vertical crack systems. Every piton crack, every handhold is a vertical one. Special techniques and equipment have evolved through absolute necessity.”
“Just wish it. But remember, it will only work if it's what you most desire. Do it now. We're running out of time."
WHAT I MOST DESIRE. WHAT I MOST DESIRE.
I looked into his electric eyes and made my wish. Then I popped the bean into my mouth and swallowed it whole.
For a moment, the world stood still. We sat in a silent bubble, just us two, insulated from the snow and the wind. His eyes widened. "But, Katrina, that wish was supposed to be for you."
"It's what I most desire."
And it was.”
Source: Coffeehouse Angel
“Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that.”
“Just with the same comment, one can fool several people.”
“Just witness yourself with your human part and hold yourself with love, if you can, or at least acceptance.”
“Just women who are really eclectic, so every woman from Gwyneth Paltrow to Peggy Nolan, who has half a shaved head and has a totally wild aesthetic. They're woman who are doing things, running their own businesses, taking chances at different levels of success and different industries. A lot of my friends are creatives. It was just who I really adore and wanted to share with a greater audience.”
“Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.”
“Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?”
“Just work. Don't wait. Everybody's waiting until they have the perfect idea to start working. Even if you have an inkling of what you want to do, start moving towards it. And it's going to flesh itself out through the process of moving towards the goal. And by the time you get to where you're going to be, it's not going to look anything like it did when you sat on the couch thinking about it. And if you wait until it's perfect in your head before you get of the couch and start working on it, that's never going to happen.”
“Just working through what other people had done gave me a feeling that this was all actually worth it. When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small. Hopping from cable news show to cable news show to discuss controversy after controversy had made me small. I thought only about the fight, not why I was fighting.”
Source: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.”
“Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.”
“Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.”
“Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.”
“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.”
“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
“Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.”
“Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see.”
“Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!”
“Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.”
“Just write, if you open the gate it gets better and better.”
“Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing... If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.”
“Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.”
“Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.”
“Just yesterday I was twenty and meeting some of these people⏤people that I'd spend my life with, that'd become my home.
Just yesterday I was twenty⏤still deeply and desperately in love with my best friend.
I grew older.
We all grow older.
In a blink of an eye, our children will grow old too.
And I'll think: just yesterday they were twenty. Headed for college. Falling in love. Memories will flood behind us, the lake house no longer filled to the brim. As quiet as the moment we first walked in⏤and we'll sit on this hill. Feeling the stillness that exists.
And then we end⏤we end where we started.
Just us.
All six of us.”
“Just you and me against the world.
Always and forever.”
Source: The Ever After of Ella and Micha
“just you and me... and that up against the wall, in the back seat, under the stars, lost in the moment while the rest of the world fades away, kind of kissing”