Sarah Dessen Quotes

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

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• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Interesting
  • Taken
  • Regret

• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Come

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • You
  • Down

• Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Time
  • Age
  • Now

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Film
  • Person
  • Watching

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Destiny
  • Invention
  • Cowardly

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Know
  • Government

• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Powerful
  • Problems
  • Welcome

• I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Effort
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Future
  • Past
  • Giving

• The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Way
  • Deliver
  • Transmute

• It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• God created seaweed… The seaweed made the world.

  

  John B. Keane
  • World
  • Made
  • Seaweed

• I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Future
  • Events
  • Dread

• Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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