Saint Joan Quotes

#1. The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Charles Simic

#3. The aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu

Susan Banfield

#5. ...push back the hood of grief...

Anthony Doerr

#6. Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.

Kathryn Harrison

#7. Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Halldor Laxness

#8. There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

Melanie Griffith

#9. He said we're all going to die,' 'And what did you say?' 'I said that's why i'm here

Joel Shepherd

#10. The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

Brian Simo

#11. Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams
what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred
I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.

Anne Lamott

#12. Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.

Courtney Summers

#13. My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.

August Wilson

#14. If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.

Philippa Gregory

#15. Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

James Cook

#16. Mom: Billy, at your birthday party you'll have a cake with five candles! Billy: I know, mommy, but I want five cakes with a candle. ***

Various

#17. Her other boyfriend before me was a druggie, too. I don't mean... he was a druggie. I like drugs, but he was a druggie . It's like she just goes out with people who take drugs so she can pick on them. Joan of Narc, patron saint of the addict. - Alex

Carrie Fisher