Sarah Dessen Quotes

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

Sarah Dessen

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• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Like

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Find
  • Fat
  • My Own

• People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Time
  • Hair

• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Children
  • Thrive

• My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Things
  • Comfort

• A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Will
  • Once
  • Take Advantage

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Years
  • Worked
  • Consistently

• I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Want
  • Look
  • Stand

• I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Better

• As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Three

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Work
  • Great
  • She

• One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Love
  • Responsibility

• It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • Business
  • Help

• Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Church
  • Treasure
  • Series

• I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Together
  • Song