Top 100 Sorensen Quotes
#1. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']
John F. Kennedy
#2. At least with the video class I'd be behind a lens instead of standing up in front of everyone where they could strip me down and evaluate me
Jessica Sorensen
#4. Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins.
Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.
Jessica Sorensen
#5. Direct my attention to the flurry of snow outside. It's everywhere, white and crisp and completely innocent looking as it shines under the sun. It's a false innocence though, because the icy roads here have caused many accidents and taken many lives.
Jessica Sorensen
#6. There's a legend that a very long time ago a meteorite fell from the sky and landed up in the mountains that surround this valley.
Jessica Sorensen
#8. Everyone is crazy in their own way, depending how you look at it.
Jessica Sorensen
#9. Touched you, kissed you, been near you ... fallen in love with you ... you're too good for me ...
Jessica Sorensen
#10. We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#11. I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside.
I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart.
Jessica Sorensen
#12. Make sure you pick one up as you leave class so you can start brainstorming ideas. That's it. Class dismissed.
Jessica Sorensen
#13. Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#14. Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.
Jessica Sorensen
#16. And life needs to be interesting because we've only got one of them to live.
Jessica Sorensen
#17. Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#18. Silence. Silence. Why is it always about silence? I wish both of us could tell the world and be free from the chains we drag around.
Jessica Sorensen
#19. I stare at him, listening to my heart thump inside my chest, to the wind sing, to the sound of someone breaking somewhere in the world.
Jessica Sorensen
#20. Stay here, baby" he whispers, like he can read my thoughts. "Trust me, okay? Don't run
Jessica Sorensen
#21. But confidence can carry you a long way. Believe in yourself, and other people will, too.
Jessica Sorensen
#22. We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#23. For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?
Jessica Sorensen
#24. Tires roared. The car lurched forward ... crunching ... a bright light ... yellow eyes ... then blackness.
Jessica Sorensen
#25. I like the sober Callie, the one that I can talk to. The one that is so sweet it's fucking adorable. The one that trembles use from the feel of my breath. The one that I want to kiss and touch so fucking badly it drives me crazy. The one that makes me feel things ...
Jessica Sorensen
#26. Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#27. Everyone fears him in their own way. And fear grows in the dirt of that town, soak the air, are engrained into the minds of every single person who resides there. That's how a place like that exists. Without fear, the society would crumble.
Jessica Sorensen
#28. The sun's bright. Like really fucking bright. Maybe it's because I've been trapped indoors for the last few weeks. Or maybe it's because I feel so dark inside.
Jessica Sorensen
#29. The first time I ever experienced happiness was when I had been lying in bed one night, staring out my window at the stars shining harmoniously.
Jessica Sorensen
#30. Wishes are just wishes. Destiny is just destiny. And neither really has control over your life. Shit happens, shapes our lives, but doesn't have to shape who we are.
Jessica Sorensen
#31. I don't answer, watching the leaves twirl in the wind across the yard, the hood of the car, wherever the breeze forces them to go. They have no control over their path in life.
Jessica Sorensen
#32. In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever,
Jessica Sorensen
#33. If you love me at all, then you'll get off the damn edge of that roof!" she shouts, her sudden spurt of anger alarming me. "Because I can't take this anymore ... " Her shoulders heave as she cries. "I swear to God, if I lose one more person I love, it's going to kill me.
Jessica Sorensen
#34. The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace
Gillian Sorensen
#35. I don't have a death wish. I'm just confused and trying to sort stuff out, trying to find a point to all of this. Life. It confuses the hell out of me. People, they confuse the hell out of me. Hell, I confuse the hell out of myself.
Jessica Sorensen
#37. Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away
Jessica Sorensen
#39. You know I'll always be here for you, Wills. Even when we're seventy years old and can barely walk, I'll use my cane to keep the bad guys away." I
Jessica Sorensen
#40. But Lyric isn't sexy. She's fun, ridiculously happy, effortlessly beautiful, life-saving, and mind-blowing amazing. Sexy doesn't even begin to sum her up.
Jessica Sorensen
#41. There was no point in telling anyone what really happened. People would see only what they want to.
Jessica Sorensen
#42. I've seen in the alleyway near the front entrance; the one with the glowing yellow eyes.
Jessica Sorensen
#45. Safe? The word still feels so foreign to me. Nothing like the word fear. Fear is like air.
Jessica Sorensen
#46. It's because you aren't thinking very clearly tonight."
"I know. Being Drunk is weird."
"Oh my god. I love you so much. Especially when you say stuff like that."
"Like what?"
"Nothing. Never mind. Although I'm dying to know why your shoe is green.
Jessica Sorensen
#47. The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.
Jessica Sorensen
#48. Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it.
T.A. Sorensen
#50. When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.
Jessica Sorensen
#51. Seth frowns disappointedly. Yeah, but Kayden wears those super tight pants when he plays football, which is pretty much the same as tights.
Jessica Sorensen
#52. All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him.
Jessica Sorensen
#53. The electricity devours my soul, fractures it open, and leaves it vulnerable and exposed.
Jessica Sorensen
#54. nothing there, except my normal specks of freckles. Dismissing it to my imagination, I grabbed my backpack and headed downstairs to get some breakfast. That's when
Jessica Sorensen
#55. Appreciate what 'is' while you nurture what you wish 'to be'!
Soren Sorensen
#56. Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.
Jessica Sorensen
#57. But we all make mistakes.
It's how we fix them that makes us who we
are.
Jessica Sorensen
#58. But I still fear I'll break him, and that boy is too damn sweet and beautiful to ruin.
Jessica Sorensen
#59. I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.
Jessica Sorensen
#60. For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#61. "I wouldn't get your hopes up," she says in a heavy-weighted tone. "Guys like Asher don't really look at girls like you. They're more my type.
Jessica Sorensen
#62. Seth wanted you to wear tights," I tell him, playfully pinching his side. "And be Peter Pan." He swiftly shakes his head. "No way in hell am I doing that.
Jessica Sorensen
#63. You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.
Jessica Sorensen
#64. #3: Do Whatever the Hell You Want for Once Instead of What You Think You Should Do.
Jessica Sorensen
#65. Nicholas shrugged. "Who knows what he's got locked away in his head. Considering the countless lies he's told, you can never really know." "That's like the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?" He smirked. "Perhaps.
Jessica Sorensen
#66. If I could wish for one thing, it would be that I could always feel this way, completely and blissfully consumed by someone else.
Jessica Sorensen
#67. black-cloaked monsters chased after me. I shoved helplessly through the brittle pine trees, leafless branches clawing at my flesh. Snow flooded my sneakers, soaking higher and higher on my jeans with every step I took.
Jessica Sorensen
#68. I try not to laugh at the fact that even when she's drunk, she has a hard time saying it. "Where do you want me to take you?" She drops her head back against my chest. "You can just keep carrying me. It's very relaxing.
Jessica Sorensen
#69. And just like that, he's dead. My one love, my soul mate, my forever, is dead.
Jessica Sorensen
#70. I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.
Jessica Sorensen
#71. Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#72. His teeth gently nick at my skin and it stings a little, but feels amazingly good at the same time; like some kind of euphoric venom dancing threw my veins.
Jessica Sorensen
#73. It's all about her. Every movement, every breath, the way my heart beats firecely inside my chest, is all because of her. Violet owns me.
Jessica Sorensen
#74. But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.
Jessica Sorensen
#75. He closes the door and turns around to face me with his hands behind his back. He studies me intensely, and it makes me squirm. "You know, you're not like I thought you'd be," he says, taking a step forward. "Yet, at the same time
Jessica Sorensen
#76. You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.
Jessica Sorensen
#77. It isn't as important to feel great about all the things that we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.
Jessica Sorensen
#78. No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.
Jessica Sorensen
#79. I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.
Jessica Sorensen
#80. Thudded heavily against the snow as the thunderous roar of the yellow, glowing-eyed,
Jessica Sorensen
#81. You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.
Jessica Sorensen
#84. Temples stand as a constant physical reminder of the grace and goodness of the Father.
David E. Sorensen
#86. By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.
Annika Sorensen
#87. It's a moment I'll remember forever, because it belongs to me.
Jessica Sorensen
#88. I continue moving with her in my arms until the end of the song, and then we let go of one another and go back to the table as if nothing happened. Something did, though, but I'm not sure whether to pursue it or run like hell.
Jessica Sorensen
#89. Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier.
Jessica Sorensen
#90. Okay, what the fuck was that about? Since when are you such a little slut?
Jessica Sorensen
#91. away, forcing myself to run faster. "Gemma, there's no use running." The man's voice rumbled through
Jessica Sorensen
#92. I won't let that night ruin you forever. But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.
Jessica Sorensen
#93. Because, in the end, I've realized I'm not my father. I'm simply me. And that's enough.
Jessica Sorensen
#94. I'm glad we're not alone, but don't like that there are a lot of people. It's kind of problematic.
Jessica Sorensen
#95. A laugh bubbles from my lips and her smile expands. "You know, I always feel so special whenever I get you to smile. Like I discovered some sort of rare gem."
I want to kiss her right there, eternally seal my lips to hers.
Okay, maybe I'm not cured.
Maybe I can't be cured.
Of anything.
Jessica Sorensen
#96. I care about Violet more than I care about myself. Maybe even ... Love her? Fuck, am I in love? No, there's no way. I don't even know what love is.
Jessica Sorensen
#98. Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#99. Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.
Jessica Sorensen
#100. Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.
Marilyn J. Sorensen
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