Sarah Dessen Quotes

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

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• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Never

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Story
  • Sad
  • Relationships

• Bad things happen sometimes.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Happen

• The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • Model

• Sometimes I draw blanks.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Sometimes
  • Draw
  • Blanks

• Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Real
  • Control
  • Sometimes

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Lost
  • Sometimes
  • Media

• As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Sometimes
  • English
  • Speak

• To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Sometimes
  • Find
  • Search

• In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Woman
  • Sometimes
  • White

• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Respect
  • Mean
  • Relationships

• Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Star
  • Sometimes
  • Impossible

• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Think
  • Risk
  • Difference

• I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Responsibility
  • Sometimes

• You have to realize that, if you don't get signed right away, it's not because you're not talented. It's not because you're not good enough. The stars have to align perfectly in order to get signed. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.

  

  Carmen Rasmusen
  • Sometimes
  • Enough
  • Stars

• I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Canvass

• But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Sometimes
  • Risk
  • Relationships