Micholas Sparks Quotes & Sayings

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance. — Grace Hopper

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all. — Emily Gould

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom. — Nelson Mandela

Sicily is more beautiful than any woman. — Truman Capote

Are you eating it? Or is it eating you? — Larry Cohen

I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask & I thought "wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan" afterwards on a break I approached her & asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? & then she said "in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather & you don't want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do" wow! that's a lesson I will never forget — Pablo

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. — Thomas S. Monson

She told me once that every time she saw my name on her caller I.D. she got butterflies. I got this swelling ache in my chest. It was a good ache - like a heart orgasm. — Tarryn Fisher

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. — Aristotle.

Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all. — Agatha Christie

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God. — Brother Lawrence

Holding her great breast in both hands as if she were holding a pudding, Mrs. Otterley rushed out. — Marion Chesney

Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun ... — Joan Z. Borysenko

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls. — Shirley Jackson