Nicholas Sparks Quotes
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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War is over if you want it.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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Women just love to shop.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
