Sarah Dessen Quotes

and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

Sarah Dessen

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• Silence
• Equal
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• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Real
  • Me
  • Balance

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Equal

• You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Government
  • Equal
  • Judges

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • World
  • Balance
  • Own

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

  

  Rachel True
  • Work
  • Trying
  • True

• Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Energy
  • Understanding
  • Balance

• Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Team
  • Balance

• I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Balance

• I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May
  • Words
  • Challenge

• Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Age
  • Night
  • Memories

• Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Balance

• To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Children
  • Energy

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• If a person a) is poorly, b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and c) gets better, no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • May
  • Power
  • Science

• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Success
  • Goals
  • Habit

• The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial stuff of the painting.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Painting

• It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • School
  • Education

• Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Time
  • Live
  • Movie

• and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Balance
  • Silence
  • Equal