Nicholas Sparks Quotes
If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?
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Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
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To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.
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I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.
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Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
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Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
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I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds
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It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
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I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'
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Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.
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If a man does not investigate into the matter of bushido daily, it will be difficult for him to die a brave and manly death.
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If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?
