Sarah Dessen Quotes

I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

Sarah Dessen

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• You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility

• In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Career

• I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • House
  • Hurt
  • Fire

• Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Taken

• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Man

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Day

• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Boring

• It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fight

• I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Deep

• We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • Trying
  • School

• Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Life
  • Long
  • Done

• Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Movie
  • Nature
  • Taken

• America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Trying
  • America
  • Best

• Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Expect
  • Teams

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Technology

• The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Cycling
  • Underestimated

• A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

  

  John Dos Passos
  • Society
  • Ugly
  • Savage

• I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Trying
  • Taken
  • Hurt