Sabotaged By Margaret Peterson Haddix Quotes & Sayings

An important consequence of giving highest priority to the metaphor of Moral Strength is that it rules out any explanations in terms of social forces or social class. — George Lakoff

You said five little words to someone
How can I help you?
and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them. — Kate Atkinson

I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant window, a nod, a smile, a moment when the eyes lock over the antics of a child. — Alice Sebold

What do you mean SOS?"
"Same old shit, Dickie. It's always SOS with you. — J.D. Robb

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else. — Joshua Malina

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it. — Rakim

When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much. — Louis Sachar

If I don't eat soon, I'll die of hunger; and if I die, I won't eat soon. — Spike Milligan

I've long believed that the gods give us the music we're supposed to hear at the times we're supposed to hear it, because all music, even lyrical and regardless of language performed in, is in and of itself an inherently magical language that can, at proper times, speak to the soul. — Ruadhan J. McElroy

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done ... — Alan Moore

I am obviously not a patient person. — Katie Heaney

I am completely grateful and pleased for the attention and the recognition I've received for playing the roles that I've played. — Sara Ramirez

Ansel, I'm not the sun, stop orbiting and get in here. — Andrea Cremer