A Quote by Nicholas Sparks

Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

Nicholas Sparks

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Almost Also Comfort Excitement Familiarity Habit Impossible Made Passion Predictability Surprises Were Wonderful

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Nicholas Sparks
American - Novelist
Born: December 31, 1965

Italy is a hot country. Wherever you feel heat, your excitement and passion come out. We're hot-blooded, and where there's passion there's love, but also anger, hunger, excitement.

Gino D'Acampo

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Noel Coward

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Pawel Pawlikowski

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

William J. Clinton

We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?

Billy Beane

The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.

Pope Benedict XVI

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

Henry Adams

If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries. I think it is almost impossible to achieve such compromise in other ways.

Vladimir Putin

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

Nicholas Sparks

Meatloaf has never quite risen above its name. It offers comfort and predictability, but rarely fireworks.

Chris Morocco

It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.

Malcolm X

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

Wendell Berry

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

Vic Mensa

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Robinson Jeffers

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.

Khloe Kardashian

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