Nicholas Sparks Quotes

You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.

Nicholas Sparks

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• What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Always

• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Support
  • Goal

• I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Goal
  • Doing
  • Just

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Child
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Course
  • Directing

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

  

  Alexis Carrel
  • Great
  • Men
  • Intuition

• When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

  

  Antonio Sabato, Jr.
  • People
  • Mother
  • Italian

• I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.

  

  Kevin Frazier
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Soul
  • Star

• I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?" Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood." I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Country
  • Fighting

• You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • World
  • Believe
  • Smile