Sarah Dessen Quotes

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Sarah Dessen

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• Chances
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• In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hearts

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

  

  Oliver North
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Far

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• 'I have nine lives,' said the kitten, purring softly as it walked around in a circle and then came back to the roof; 'but I can't lose even one of them by falling in this country, because I really couldn't manage to fall if I wanted to.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Country
  • Fall

• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.'

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Science

• The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • May
  • Truth
  • Society

• It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Death
  • Fall

• After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Time
  • Live
  • Money

• I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Tennis

• The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Interesting
  • Funny
  • Fall

• I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

  

  Dar Williams
  • People
  • Fall

• The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • People
  • Music
  • Growing

• Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • People
  • Example
  • Getting

• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Choices
  • Architecture

• The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Fall
  • Hearts
  • Chances