Joan Kirner Quotes

#1. Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

Tucker Carlson

#2. The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did.

Larry McMurtry

#3. Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

Joan Kirner

#4. Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.

Joan Kirner

#5. To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'

Joan Kirner

#6. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Joan Kirner

#7. By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

Abraham Verghese

#8. Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Joan Kirner

#9. I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.

Spencer W. Kimball

#10. We want Jesus to come to our house, but we're going to question Him when He gets there.

John Bevere

#11. I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

Joan Kirner

#12. Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

David Blaine

#13. I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

Joan Kirner

#14. A good Author is willing to read as much as she writes

Sarah Myria Carter

#15. In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

Ryan Lewis

#16. I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

Joan Kirner

#17. It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#18. I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

Joan Kirner

#19. If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.

Judy Collins

#20. It's okay, when we as women are in a serving role. But it's not okay, it appears, still, when we have full access to power.

Joan Kirner

#21. A lot of young women ask me, 'Can you go into politics and maintain your ideals?' Well, I think you can. You might not, in any one interview, tell the whole truth, but to deliberately deceive the public who've elected you is totally unacceptable.

Joan Kirner

#22. Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

Joan Kirner

#23. The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

Isaac Asimov

#24. If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Pierre Duhem

#25. I would feel the urge to attack people, to bite them; they'd all be walking McBloodburgers to me.

Charlaine Harris

#26. I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.

Joan Kirner

#27. Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.

Joan Kirner

#28. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

Henry Fielding

#29. I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist.

Joan Kirner