| Author | Quote |
Topic |
|---|
| Jackson, Jesse | "No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. " | Dream |
| Jagger, Mick | "I don't believe in having bands for solo records. " | Music |
| James, William | "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. " | Life |
| James, Henry | "It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. " | History |
| James, William | "The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. " | History |
| James, William | "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. " | Life |
| James, P. D. | "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. " | Nature |
| James, William | "The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. " | Success |
| James, Clive | "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. " | Technology |
| James, William | "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. " | Life |
| Javan, | "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. " | Love |
| Javan, | "I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. " | Love |
| Jefferson, Thomas | "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. " | Peace |
| Jefferson, Thomas | "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. " | Friendship |
| Jefferson, Thomas | "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. " | Religion |
| Jefferson, Thomas | "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. " | Government |
| Jefferson, Thomas | "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. " | Government |
| Jefferson, Thomas | "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. " | History |
| Jenkins, Ken | "I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. " | Science |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne | "Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. " | Friendship |
| Jillett, Penn | "My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. " | Technology |
| Jobs, Steve | "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. " | Business |
| Jobs, Steve | "I want to put a ding in the universe. " | Business |
| Johnson, Hiram | "The first casualty when war comes is truth. " | War |
| Johnson, Lyndon B. | "The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. " | History |
| Johnson, Lyndon B. | "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. " | History |
| Johnson, Lyndon B. | "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." " | History |
| Johnson, Samuel | "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. " | Poetry |
| Jones, Howard Mumford | "Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. " | Technology |
| Jones, John Paul | "I have not yet begun to fight! " | War |
| Jones, Ernest | "The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. " | Nature |
| Jong, Erica | "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. " | Art |
| Jordan, Barbara | "Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. " | Society |
| Joubert, Jeseph | "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. " | Business |
| Joubert, Joseph | "You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. " | Poetry |
| Jowett, Benjamin | "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. " | Business |
| Joy, C. Turner | "The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words. " | History |
| Jr., H. Jackson Brown, | "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. " | Love |
| Judd, Walter H. | "People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. " | Government |
| Jung, Carl Gustav | "We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. " | Science |
