Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Bad
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Always
  • Insecurity
  • Out

• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Business
  • Me
  • Ideology

• The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Economics
  • Bill Of Rights

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• 'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Wonder
  • Castle

• I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Think
  • Past
  • Patience

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Childhood
  • Bitter

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Yoga

• I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Nice
  • Female
  • Polite

• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Remember

• Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Mind
  • Blue

• Now I'm standing alone in a crowded roomAnd we're not speaking.And I'm dyin' to know:Is it killing youLike it's killing me?Yeah.I don't know what to say since a twist of fate, when it all broke downAnd the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Alone
  • Fate

• It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Politics
  • Office

• An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Intelligent
  • Loyalty

• Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Hair

• You cannot possibly be reaching the needs of your consumers when the makeup of your company is not reflective of the community you serve.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Community
  • Makeup

• People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Long