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.Sarah Dessen
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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 -
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 -
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
Candace Kita -
I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
Oliver Sim The xx -
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 -
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Iain Sinclair
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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 -
Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
Larry Ellison -
Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick -
In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
Zac Goldsmith -
One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner -
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
Karl Urban -
I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
Gary Johnson -
The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.
Ralph Marston -
Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
Mallory Jansen -
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
Dan Hicks
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The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.
K. P. Yohannan -
When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.
Saul Bellow -
We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.
Francis Chan -
What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?
Norbert Lynton -
They call it Armageddon, the end of freedom as we know it. After I signed the bill, I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling, some cracks opening up in the earth. Turned out it was a nice day.
Barack Obama -
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