Sarah Dessen Quotes

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Know
  • Play
  • Golf

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Science
  • Discipline

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Rest
  • Frustration

• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Time
  • Science
  • Trust

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • American
  • Dream

• There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Think
  • Top

• There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Management
  • Productivity

• I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Shoes

• Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • Failure
  • Goals

• Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Kind
  • Eye
  • Painting

• I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Good
  • Know
  • Camera

• In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.

  

  Duncan D. Hunter
  • High
  • Culture

• I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one. It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Running
  • Said
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