Sarah Dessen Quotes

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

Sarah Dessen

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• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Done

• I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Records
  • Hits
  • Legendary

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Comfortable
  • Suits
  • Trends

• In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Crazy
  • End
  • Communication

• We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Want
  • Change
  • Act

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Everything
  • Percent
  • Tide

• Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Steel

• I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Women
  • America

• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Parents

• I have endeavored to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Women
  • Science
  • Faith

• Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'

  

  Audra McDonald
  • People
  • Country

• If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Important

• It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • People
  • Age

• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Mean

• Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Perfect
  • Feels
  • Trouble