Joan Plowright Quotes

#1. I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

Lee Daniels

#2. In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

#3. Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#4. I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

Mariano Rivera

#5. Keating had the appearance of a man who was reluctant to say what he had to say

James Runcie

#6. To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

Grey Damon

#8. When we touch ... our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass ...

Katie Waitman

#9. What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.

Jessica Abel

#10. And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission

Kelley Armstrong

#11. My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you're going to let a boy keep you from singing out loud? Sing, sister! Sing!
So I do, and my angel-boy turns his head.

Lauren Myracle

#12. Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.

Joan Plowright

#13. He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Horace