Joanne > Joanne's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.”
― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

“Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.”
― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
― Dolly Parton

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
― Dolly Parton

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
― Dolly Parton

“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”
― Dolly Parton

“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
― Dolly Parton

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
― Dolly Parton

“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”
― Dolly Parton

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
― Dolly Parton

“If I see something saggin', baggin', or draggin', I'm gone have it nipped, tucked, or sucked!”
― Dolly Parton

“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man: We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.”
― Hugh Latimer

“What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.”
― Peter Rollins, Insurrection: To Believe Is Human To Doubt, Divine