Sarah Dessen Quotes
When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.
Sarah Dessen
Quotes to Explore
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
J. B. Pritzker
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
Katee Sackhoff
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
Edgar Mitchell
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Ramana Maharshi
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
Cara Buono
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
Jack Vance
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A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.
Pat Buchanan
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
Hillary Clinton
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There are the right ways of doing it, and then there are ways that are ineffective. Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.
Hillary Clinton
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I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.
Lord Byron
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
Antonin Scalia
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We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.
Nikola Tesla
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
Wallace Shawn
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I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.
Eric Braeden
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There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
Matt Haig
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All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.
Charles Dickens
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When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.
Sarah Dessen
