Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
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These voices blame the Middle East's only democracy for the region's extremism. They offer the false promise that abandoning a stalwart ally is somehow the path to strength. It is not, it never has been, and it never will be.
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A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
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It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. 'You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself.'
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He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
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To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.
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I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.
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I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.
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Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.
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Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.
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True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
