Famous Joanne Woodward Quotes & Sayings

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character. — Nicholas Eberstadt

To the last we will have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets, that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished. No one can accept that an imperial has been annihilated by men with bows and arrows and rusty old guns who live in tents and never wash and cannot read or write. And who am I to jeer at life-giving illusions? Is there any better way to pass these last days than in dreaming of a saviour with a sword who will scatter the enemy hosts and forgive us the errors that have been committed by others in our name and grant us a second chance to build our earthly paradise? — J.M. Coetzee

Quantity brings recognition and accolades — Sunday Adelaja

You're a gift, one I'll always treasure. You're a dream I never want to wake up from. You open my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me. Be safe. Be smart. Stay you. — Ellen Hopkins

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies. — Sam Branson

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face. — Stephen King

Faeries can be quite mean if they are provoked. — Elizabeth Rudnick

I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy. — Ellen Barkin

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want? — Ken Mehlman

Not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals. — Erma Bombeck

Awakening is to become aware of your awareness.
Be in the awareness of your presence, rather than being in the now. — Gian Kumar

The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth to the hope, that, in time, he might gain her affection himself; - but it had been no present hope - he had only, in the momentary conquest of eagerness over judgment, aspired to be told that she did not forbid his attempt to attach her. - The superior hopes which gradually opened were so much the more enchanting. - The affection, which he had been asking to be allowed to create, if he could, was already his! - Within half an hour, he had passed from a thoroughly distressed state of mind, to something so like perfect happiness, that it could bear no other name. — Jane Austen

What would that be like - to long, to yearn for someone who is right there before your eyes, day in and day out? — Margaret Atwood

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies. — Jack Tatum

Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.) — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes