Sarah Quotes

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where – where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.

Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.

Hope is not a strategy.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

I think it's important to love what you do and have a good time with it. I go to work every day and have a blast.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn‟t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not.

You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.

There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.

Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.