Sarah Dessen Quotes

I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Management
  • Chicago

• I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Crush

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Experience
  • History
  • Holocaust

• There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Loved

• American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Think
  • High
  • Space

• Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Democracy
  • Challenge
  • Professional

• I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Moments
  • Evolution
  • Image

• We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Good
  • Without
  • Good Things

• To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Thought
  • Racism

• Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rest
  • Always
  • English

• Artificial intelligence, machine learning... cell therapy, immunotherapy. There's just a constant stream of investment ideas we could pursue better in that fashion.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Learning
  • Fashion

• It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery-beware of enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. (41).

  

  Epictetus
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• When people consume, they want more. Then they choose the best, and you suddenly get innovation coming in. Now combine that with desperation and people wanting to get a better life: you have a potent combination for innovation.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Life
  • Innovation

• Vindication? Oh, my God, absolutely. When you're attacked mercilessly for illogical and unpatriotic reasons, to be honored by Emmy voters in this way is just phenomenal.

  

  Neil Meron
  • God
  • Voters
  • Honored

• I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Worry