Sarah Dessen Quotes

If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

Sarah Dessen

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• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Together
  • Humanity
  • Fight

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Attention
  • Your
  • Capture

• My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Father
  • Also
  • Screenwriter

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Want

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• You don't know where life takes you.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Good
  • Great
  • Simplicity

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Death
  • Know

• Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.

  

  J. B. Jackson
  • Numbers
  • Essence
  • Landscape

• The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Nothing's planned. Never say never.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Say
  • Planned

• If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Moving
  • Failing