Sarah Dessen Quotes
You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
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Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.
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I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.
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Most of the quarterbacks I've dealt with when they're young have had setbacks.
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I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.
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The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.
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I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.
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Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
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As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
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You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.
