Sarah Dessen Quotes

So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.

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• If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Want
  • Goals

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • You
  • Question
  • Talking

• I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Should
  • Everyone
  • Judged

• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Mother

• I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

  

  Adele
  • Records
  • Figure
  • Rely

• No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

  

  Irving Howe
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Space

• We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Up
  • Children
  • Environment

• Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Law
  • Democracy
  • Matters

• I cannot exist as a solo artist.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Artist
  • Exist
  • Solo

• If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

  

  Vance Havner
  • City
  • Fire
  • Gold

• I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Daughter

• If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Creative
  • Afraid

• For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • True
  • Man
  • Believes

• Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Desire
  • Joy

• As in other animals, the nerves and chemicals that make up our basic brain structure have a direct connection with our body. When the old brain takes over, it partially shuts down the higher brain, our conscious mind, and propels the body to run, hide, fight, or, on occasion, freeze. By the time we are fully aware of our situation, our body may already be on the move. If the fight/flight/freeze response is successful and we escape the danger, we recover our internal equilibrium and gradually “regain our senses.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Brain
  • Danger
  • Animals

• For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Humans
  • Emotion
  • Response

• Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • God
  • Love
  • Temptation

• So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Response