Nicholas Sparks Quotes

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

Predictions are so often, so wrong ... The future is just too complicated.

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!

With the national team, you never know how long you've got, so you always have to be pushing and making the most of it.

Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much scarier. It means that what we do every day matters, which is always a bummer for humans. But it’s a great thing and it’s inspirational and we need to remember that. We have a long way to go and not a long time to get there.

Trend is not destiny.

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.