Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

Nicholas Sparks

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• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Great
  • Always
  • Thought

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Singing
  • See

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Together
  • Cool
  • Enjoy

• He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Live
  • Story
  • Wishes

• Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • You
  • Find
  • Questions

• The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Dying

• Scared out of his seven senses.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Scared
  • Senses

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.

  

  Jack Vance

• Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.

  

  Brian Goldman
  • Good
  • Live
  • Exercise

• I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Stop

• When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Animal

• We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

  

  Susan Collins
  • Sacrifice
  • Memory
  • Lives

• You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Friends
  • Customer

• Beginnings, it’s said, are apt to be shadowy.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Beginnings
  • Shadowy

• I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • War
  • Support
  • Writer

• Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Choices
  • Complaining
  • Bother