Sarah Dessen Quotes

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.

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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Know
  • Capable

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Nervous

• It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • California

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Life
  • Own
  • Privacy

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Wrong
  • Documentary

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Desire
  • Thought
  • Quitting

• Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Person
  • Memories
  • Stories

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • City
  • Kind

• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • God
  • Matter

• Please do not obsess over choices you cannot change. Mistakes happen. Learn from the past, but concentrate on the present and the future.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Change
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Positive
  • Matter
  • Forget

• The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Matter
  • Mistakes
  • Shape