Nicholas Sparks Quotes

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

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• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Know
  • See
  • Possibility

• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• Anytime you're playing a major, the last four or five holes, it's not going to be easy. It's never a guarantee. It's never easy.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Easy
  • Playing
  • Guarantee

• Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Possibility

• Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Guarantee
  • Obnoxious
  • Uneducated

• If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Different
  • Humans
  • Loss

• Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Stress

• Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Enemy
  • Possibility
  • Plans

• This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Economy

• It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

  

  M. Ward
  • Realizing
  • Possibility
  • Strings

• There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Responsibility

• I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Possibility
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

  

  John Ensign
  • Safety
  • Protect
  • Possibility

• How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Believe
  • Possibility

• The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Word
  • Possibility
  • Climate

• Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • War
  • Achieve

• A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Government
  • Security

• Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

  

  Geraldine Jewsbury
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Enough

• Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Help
  • Celibacy

• We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

  

  William Boyd
  • People
  • Knows
  • Turns

• I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

  

  Sunny Murray
  • Sound
  • Manipulate
  • Interpret

• It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Possibility
  • Guarantee