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NICHOLAS SPARKS We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't kno...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created....
NICHOLAS SPARKS I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've eve...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You are, and always have been, my dream.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
NICHOLAS SPARKS It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you rea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter an...
NICHOLAS HILLIARD Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
NICHOLAS LING Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
NICHOLAS BRETON No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you hav...
NICHOLAS DEWOLF Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,
Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,
Wit...
NICHOLAS ROWE Steps are what you take when you think you have forever.
NICHOLAS LORE The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.
NICHOLAS LORE Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts...
NICHOLAS EVANS However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU If I be the first of us to die,
Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be bold yet modest in you...
NICHOLAS EVANS The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of t...
NICHOLAS GOODISON For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the de...
NICHOLAS COPERNICUS If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks,
Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
To re...
NICHOLAS ROWE To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.
NICHOLAS ROWE Thou hast prevariated with thy friend,
By underhand contrivances undone me:
And while my open ...
NICHOLAS ROWE It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “S...
NICHOLAS SPARKS At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
NICHOLAS SPARKS When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children...
NICHOLAS SPARKS People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.
NICHOLAS SPARKS