Sarah Dessen Quotes

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Health
  • Decisions
  • Insurance

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Know
  • Story

• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Hair

• I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Good
  • Body
  • Information

• Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Important
  • Care
  • Employees

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Children
  • School
  • America

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Without
  • Consequences

• I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Best
  • Road

• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Devil
  • Him
  • Prepare

• The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person?

  

  David Papineau
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Persons

• Anyone that has been lucky enough to go to the races and witness the magnificent spectacle of a competitive race will know how people like me can instantly fall in love with the power and beauty of race horses in full gallop.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Lucky

• I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

  

  Erin O'Connor
  • Needs
  • Easy

• If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Scripture
  • Mathematics
  • Judgement

• We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Needs
  • Lucky
  • Expect