Joan Mulholland Quotes

Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations. ~ Joan Didion

Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair. ~ Joan D. Chittister

No," Joan vowed. She grabbed Bash's shirt. "I don't want this. Didn't want this to happen."
Screams resonated.
Bash continued quietly, "None of us do. That's not up to us. We have to decide what we're going to do with what we're given. Play the cards dealt to us. ~ Cate Campbell Beatty

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go. ~ Joan Didion

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough? ~ Joan Jett

[John H.] Sununu promised Republicans that the relatively obscure [David H.] Souter would be a 'home run for conservatives,' but this prediction could not have been more wrong. Souter ended up being one of the liberal members of the Court during the late 1990s and the 2000s, which prompted a 'no more Souters' mantra among conservatives. ~ Joan Biskupic

No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions. ~ William J. Brennan

We all have the same dreams. ~ Joan Didion

All I know about grammar is its infinite power. ~ Joan Didion

One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other. ~ Kathryn Harrison

To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource. ~ Joan Lunden

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. ~ Joan Cusack

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. ~ Joan Of Arc

It also occurred to me that this was a promise I could not keep. I could not always take care of her. I could not never leave her. She was no longer a child. She was an adult. Things happened in life that mothers could not prevent or fix. ~ Joan Didion

The more I work, the more I want to work. ~ Joan Miro

It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person. ~ Joan D. Chittister

It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it. ~ Joan Lunden

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops. ~ Jess Walter

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range. ~ Joan Halifax

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something. ~ Joan Collins

one more piece of evidence that assigned reading makes nothing happen. ~ Joan Didion

Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes. ~ Joan Didion

I'm going through hell," I cried, "and Steve wants me to be thankful he baked a pie." (272) ~ Joan Frances Casey

During the last year she was alive, at age 95, my mother said many times, "It's so freeing to realize that nothing really matters." She said it joyously, with relief, as if a burden had been lifted. She also said over and over, "Love yourself".

Tollifson, Joan. Nothing to Grasp (p. 174). New Harbinger Publications. Kindle Edition. ~ Joan Tollifson

What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God that the machinery of war or prevailing politics. For her the struggle against English occupation and the eventual permanent establishment of French sovereignty were matters of justice, and justice was regarded as a major virtue in the Middle Ages. From justice came the origins of chivalry, which was about much more than mere courtesy: it concerned the order of a sovereign society and its place in the economy of God's plan for the world. ~ Donald Spoto

Here's a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce. ~ Joan Rivers

Girls just want to have fun. Well, so do old ladies! ~ Joan Rivers

All one's actual apprehension of what it is like to be a woman, the irreconcilable difference of it - that sense of living one's deepest life underwater, that dark involvement with blood and birth and death - could now be declared in valid, unnecessary, one never felt it at all. ~ Joan Didion

The power of what we say is not determined by the duration of our talk but by its content. The more the mouth chatters, the further the mind scatters. ~ Joan Marques

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere ~ Joan Didion

Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock of time, even religious time. Lent is about exercising the control that enables us to say no to ourselves so that when life turns hard of its own accord we have the stamina to yes to its twists and turns with faith and hope. Lent is the time to make new efforts to be what we say we want to be. ~ Joan D. Chittister