Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Nicholas Sparks

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• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Saying
  • Radio

• Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Believe
  • Technology

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Place
  • Liberal

• Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Great
  • Father
  • Want

• NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe

• Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People

• I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Lies
  • Kiss

• It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Team

• My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Inspiration
  • Daughter

• In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.

  

  Alma Gluck
  • Study

• When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • College
  • English

• Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Grief