Sarah Dessen Quotes

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

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• People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stand

• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Up
  • Other

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Past
  • Literature

• I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Anonymity

• I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Faith
  • Mystic

• You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • People
  • Past
  • Crazy

• Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Life
  • World
  • Make A Difference

• I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Time

• One day, we'll have 10, 20 or 50 Jaleos around America or around the world.

  

  Jose Andres
  • World
  • America

• I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Why
  • Pretty

• During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Thinking
  • May
  • America

• The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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