Sarah Dessen Quotes

But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.

Sarah Dessen

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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Different
  • Home

• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Poetry

• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• It's hard separating work from personal life.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Life
  • Work
  • Personal

• But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Forever

• 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

• Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Life
  • Material
  • Masses

• Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Courage
  • My Life

• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Everything I know about makeup, I've learned from my sister.

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • Sister
  • Makeup

• Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Happy
  • Air
  • Jump

• The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Good
  • Live
  • Interesting

• The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • State
  • Monsters

• But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Summer
  • Sight