Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Denial is an ugly thing.

Nicholas Sparks

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• I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • God
  • Church
  • Pray

• Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Time
  • Need
  • Lightning

• No scientist thinks in formula.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Scientists
  • Thinks
  • Formula

• The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.

  

  Gael Greene
  • Heart
  • Between
  • Underneath

• The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Fashion

• Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Train

• I'd rather look old than look as if I'd had plastic surgery. Sometimes it looks really fake; all people can think about when they look at you is that you've had plastic surgery.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Fake
  • Plastic Surgery

• I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Spotlight

• Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Interests
  • Advance
  • Disadvantage

• All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Write

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Experience
  • Depression
  • Normal

• Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Truth
  • Secret
  • Clouds

• You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Home
  • Interesting
  • Community

• It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Order
  • Ironic
  • Denial

• Denial is an ugly thing.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Denial