Quotes About The Longest Ride

#1. Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.

Andrew Solomon

#3. Maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. Perhaps a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.

Colleen McCullough

#4. Here and now she cannot exist without me.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. Such efforts show the truth of the remark of St. Ambrose: that the saints were no less liable than ourselves to fall into faults; but that they had greater care to practise virtue, and to correct the faults into which they fell.

Candide Chalippe

#6. Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward 'visualizing world peace'.

Boyd Rice

#7. It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#8. THE LONGEST RIDE is epic Sparks ... [It] showcases the author's most accomplished work to date ... There are moments of perfection. - Mountain Times (NC)

Nicholas Sparks

#9. If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.

Dean Koontz

#10. Let's skip the Zen shit and just get back to the killing each other part.

Cassandra Gannon

#11. Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

Ric Flair

#12. God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. And Id be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

Idries Shah

#15. I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply fineness of nature.

John Ruskin

#17. But unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.

Nicholas Sparks

#18. On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one. Perhaps because I never wanted to disappoint my father.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. Every couple years, you know, these great things drop in my lap. It's been fantastic.

John Stamos

#20. Yes, I would become upset when you forgot to take out the garbage, but that is not a real argument. That is nothing. It passes like a leaf blown by the window. It is over and done and it is forgotten quickly.

Nicholas Sparks

#21. For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.

Nicholas Sparks

#22. You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#23. That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!

David Lodge

#24. I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

Nuno Bettencourt

#25. In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.

Nicholas Sparks

#26. Genius, like gold and precious stones,
is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Mark Twain

#27. But as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren't a priest."
"What?" asked the thief, almost gaping.
"You attacked reason," said Father Brown. "It's bad theology.

G.K. Chesterton

#28. He drew a deep breath, struggling to keep his emotions in check, knowing he didn't love her simply in the here and now but that he would never stop loving her.

Nicholas Sparks

#29. Her hands are warm and soft. Hands I knew better then my own.

Nicholas Sparks

#30. We shared the longest ride together, this thing called life,

Nicholas Sparks

#31. I am always with you, Ira.

Nicholas Sparks

#32. It went on, this lifetime in a box, one letter after another.

Nicholas Sparks