Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

Sarah Addison Allen

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• I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
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• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
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• My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • World
  • Money
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• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
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• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• Our life is full of empty space.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Space
  • Empty

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • She

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Good
  • Country
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• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

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  • World
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• I never wear pants; I only wear dresses.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir

• The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.

  

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  • Community
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• Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Real

• What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Wish
  • Generation
  • Idiots

• It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Different

• I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Effort

• He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Effort
  • Passionate
  • Swimming