Nicholas Sparks Quotes

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.

Life is full of surprises.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Sometimes, my books start with a scene I see in my mind, such as a woman in a wedding dress running away from her wedding like in 'Embers of Love.' Sometimes, a book can start with a character.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

History is totally unpredictable.

History had unexpected duties in store for us.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Destiny and history are untidy.

A lot of times in life, it's personal choices that you're making, actively, and then there's a myriad of forces and circumstances that are out of our control. And without even realizing it, you're riding a wave of events that you have no control of.

Life is so unpredictable.

I think life is a chain of events.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.