Sarah Dessen Quotes

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

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• I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Wall

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• I'm learning every day.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Day
  • Learning
  • Everyday

• The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Whole
  • Rather
  • Ethical

• I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thought
  • Wrong
  • Back

• The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Red
  • Chinese
  • Judging

• During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Artists

• Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Peace

• I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • World
  • Long
  • Children

• Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Different
  • May

• The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

  

  Dennis Washington
  • Good
  • School
  • Money

• The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • Age

• I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.

  

  Ben Harney
  • People
  • Help

• The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Father
  • Death
  • Law

• Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

  

  Brigham Young

• If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • May

• Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.

  

  Genghis Khan
  • Enemy
  • Daughter
  • Conflict

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Pretty
  • Difficult
  • Show

• When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Single
  • Amazing

• Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Daughter
  • Phone Calls