Jeanne Manford Quotes

As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place? ~ Jeanne Woodford

Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?"
Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot,there's nothing wrong. with you. ~ Jeanne Birdsall

This spirit gradually decayed, not being nourished by prayer. I became cold toward God. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor. ~ Jeanne Ray

Nickie didn't like listening to him because his voice always sounded too smooth. ~ Jeanne DuPrau

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence. ~ Jeanne Phillips

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise. ~ Claude Chabrol

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her. ~ Jeanne Tripplehorn

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes. ~ Jeanne Moreau

Tell me what trying to reconcile with someone who isn't sorry would even look like!"

He paused, then said simply, "It would look like Jesus on the cross. ~ Jeanne Bishop

I could just slit your throat and go back to reading. ~ Norma Jeanne Karlsson

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life. ~ Jeanne Moreau

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change. ~ Jeanne Moreau

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living ... ~ Jeanne Moreau

Sweet is highly overrated." So is responsible, loyal, and every other adjective you'd find scrawled in my yearbook. ~ Jeanne Ryan

of film had come to me! "That way when you're discharged, you might still be of some use. Not like the rest of these," he waved his hand at the ward, "these useless eaters. ~ Jeanne Moran

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother. ~ Jeanne Moreau

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening ... ~ Jeanne DuPrau

That's the city I see in my dreams, Poppy. It isn't like Ember at all. The sky is light and the buildings are tall and sort of sparkle." (Lina) ~ Jeanne DuPrau

Our authentic power is found in our truth. This is the place that shows us how to give what is so very good about ourselves. ~ Jeanne McElvaney

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally. ~ Jeanne Moreau

Skye." "Lima-Oscar-Victor-Echo ~ Jeanne Birdsall

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free. ~ Jeanne Ryan

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me. ~ Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne ~ Madame Roland

Tommy was nowhere in sight, and though she waited for a few minutes, he didn't reappear. ~ Jeanne Birdsall

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. ~ Jeanne Gang

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins. ~ Jeanne Marie Laskas

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent. ~ Jeanne Moreau

My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence. ~ Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason. ~ Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

In the most fundamental way I have my first glimpse of how the ingredients come together, how each is nothing in particular by itself but once they are joined they can make something miraculous. ~ Jeanne Ray

He'll come," said Rosalind. "He's got to. ~ Jeanne Birdsall

Rest in Peace?' Why that phrase? That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard! You die, and they say 'Rest in Peace!' …Why would one need to 'rest' when they're dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d'Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I'm only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won't need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on. ~ Roman Payne

Too much of our political debate ... has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature. ~ Jeanne Shaheen

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book. ~ Jeanne Herry

Waldo nodded and waved goodbye pathetically, like a young father going off to war.
As soon as the door was closed and he was gone, Jeanne squelched her own apprehensions, opened the paper and read the poem Waldo had written for her:

One taste of Jeanne and out I flew
Wildly, madly, in no direction
But hers, and yet so straight and true
I fly towards her with no protection
It feels so strange to move this way
Though I should land, desire it seems
Moves in strange circles and so I stay
Disoriented beyond my wildest dreams. ~ Donald Jeffries

I have no doubt who I am. ~ Jeanne Moreau

What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort. ~ Jeanne De Salzmann

Why does everybody think I argue? I never argue." Skye hesitated. "Or at least, I'm not going to argue as much anymore."
"That would be a miracle."
Skye chose to pretend she hadn't heard. ~ Jeanne Birdsall