Sarah Dessen Quotes

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • World
  • Math
  • Walk

• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Create
  • I Can

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Time
  • Day
  • Hair

• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Time
  • Art
  • Sense

• I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Money
  • Pride

• I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Women
  • Home
  • Remember

• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Growth

• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Man

• I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Long
  • Line

• All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Free
  • Me
  • Choice

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Society

• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Freedom

• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Why
  • Fate

• Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Different
  • Relationship

• We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future. … Every time we explain how a better future might be built, we redraw the boundaries of the possible.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Future

• To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

  

  Kelly Miller
  • Different
  • America
  • Search

• Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • People
  • Life
  • Wonder

• The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Fear

• The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Imagination
  • Made
  • Manifest

• Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Learning
  • Stupid