Sarah Dessen Quotes

Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

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• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Camera

• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Always
  • Top
  • Courteous

• There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Home
  • Couple

• I myself am a former commando fighter.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Myself
  • Fighter
  • Am

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  

  Harold Prince
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Community

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Average
  • Proven

• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  

  Hans Kung
  • World
  • War
  • History

• Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Mistake
  • Debt
  • Both

• My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Mom

• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Job
  • Try
  • Circumstances

• I don't sit around and get depressed about things. It's not my character.

  

  Neil Morrissey
  • Character

• Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!

  

  Bradley James
  • Up
  • World
  • Nature

• There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

  

  Vash Young
  • Thoughts
  • Jump
  • River

• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Money
  • American
  • America

• My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Political
  • Kind
  • Reason

• Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Certain