Sarah Dessen Quotes

There it is. Take it.

Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

I already gave my best.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Mr. President, my father always told me that when you have a losing hand, you throw in your cards.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

If you can't do it, give up!

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.