Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Problems

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Mysteries
  • Obsess

• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Results
  • Corruption

• Two powerful people can't be friends.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Friends
  • Powerful

• I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Moment
  • Will

• I grew up with horrible skin. I had cystic acne ever since I can remember. I ended up finally listening to those people who say you are what you eat.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Land
  • Criminals

• People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Dog
  • Rain

• I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.

  

  Astro Teller
  • People
  • Believe

• When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Father
  • Industry

• With the release of the Dragon sensor... I have finished my mission. I am done posting. I will no longer be the face of Red.

  

  James Jannard
  • Done
  • Red

• I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Friends
  • Society
  • Community

• To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • Space
  • Safety

• Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Stories
  • Surprise