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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.


Bianca Jagger


#bearing #become #being #believe #could

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!


William James


#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.


William James


#advantage #better #character #concrete #entirely

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.


Keith Jarrett


#electric #even #heart #i #ideas

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.


Keith Jarrett


#happens #jazz #present #simple #you

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.


Thomas Jordan Jarvis


#carried #earnestly #end #every #guise

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.


Karl Jaspers


#existed #hegel #lost #moment #philosophy

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.


Karl Jaspers


#essential #everything #great #history #philosophers

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?


Thomas Jefferson


#congress #errs #everything #fifty #hour

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.


Peter Jennings


#arranged #george #george w #guard #had






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