Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
-
I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
-
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
-
I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
-
I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
-
Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
-
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
-
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
-
I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
-
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
-
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
-
It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
-
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
-
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
-
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
-
Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.
-
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
-
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
-
'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.
-
If I could time-travel, I would either go to the '70s and watch the first 'Star Wars' film the day it opened, or to 1880s London, during the Jack the Ripper era, and experience the true grossness of that time.
-
I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you need to have and own things - to breed, to think, to create - is going on everywhere, not just on this planet or in the space around it.
-
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
-
Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
-
It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
