Sarah Dessen Quotes

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

Sarah Dessen

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• Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • World
  • Dream
  • Crazy

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Way
  • Change
  • Woman

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Night
  • Me
  • Dance

• I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Easy

• I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Freedom

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

  

  Manika
  • Things
  • Expect
  • Pop

• I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Country
  • Want
  • You

• I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

  

  J. August Richards
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Good
  • She
  • Happy

• To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Fall

• Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Important
  • Always
  • Being

• A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Character
  • Society
  • Science

• May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Country
  • Family
  • May

• The first, the very first; oh! noneCan feel again as they have done;In love, in war, in pride, in allThe planets of life's coronal,However beautiful or bright,-What can be like their first sweet light?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Done
  • War

• What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Know
  • Forever