Sarah Dessen Quotes

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

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• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • World
  • Man

• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Race
  • Autobiography

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Problem
  • Best

• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • World
  • Couple
  • Thought

• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Free
  • Faith

• We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • World
  • Believe
  • Compassion

• I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Believe
  • Terrorism

• 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

• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Book
  • Burned

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • World
  • Hope
  • Man

• I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.

  

  Emma Watson
  • World
  • Important
  • Fashion

• I was on MTV's 'Real World' at the time when 'Queer Eye' came out. I remember, the first time I won an award, I got the award, and they were like, 'It's a tie! With 'Queer Eye!'' I never thought that I would one day follow in their footsteps.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • World
  • Good
  • Society

• Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Like
  • Company
  • Build

• You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • People
  • Weird

• I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Future
  • Past