Just Quotes

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.