Nicholas Sparks Quotes

That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

Nicholas Sparks

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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Universities
  • Rubbish

• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Community
  • Rights
  • Supporting

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Bad
  • Education

• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick
  • Eye
  • Ball
  • Your

• There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Believe
  • First
  • Old

• I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Myself
  • Story

• If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • You

• We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

  

  Val Guest
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Good
  • Music
  • Boy

• There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Number

• Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Life
  • Long
  • Conclusion

• In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• Music means itself.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music

• That's how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.

  

  John Michael Higgins
  • Singing
  • Relax

• If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Great
  • Death

• In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally - in short, with reason.

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Perfect
  • Secret
  • Storytelling

• That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Past
  • Secret
  • Ugly