Sarah Dessen Quotes
I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.Sarah Dessen
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn -
I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
Hailey Bieber -
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith -
One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
Kai Bird -
Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
Laura Prepon -
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
Irwin Shaw
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
Dana Fox -
Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
Sam Shepard -
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde -
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden -
Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
Gary Zukav
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North -
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
Dana Spiotta -
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
Harold Prince -
My job means I work late.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
W. Edwards Deming -
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham -
My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
Tagg Romney -
Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.
Allan Sekula -
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you think you're not the kind of literary person who will write books that will sell. There was always a kind of defensiveness in me.
Ravi Subramanian -
I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
Sarah Dessen