Nicholas Sparks Quotes
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American.
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I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.
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From a legal perspective, ... the copy was not on file with the auditor for 10 days.
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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
