Quotes & Sayings About Arrogance In The Great Gatsby

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. — Octavio Paz

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery. — Liz Garbus

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this. — Andy Serkis

[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell

I gestured my frustration. "I don't know. She's much better already. She wasn't talking half an hour ago.
Look at her now."
We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls
hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her.
Okay," I said as we turned back. "Bad example. — Kim Harrison

I feel the responsibility of the novelist is to create a very complex world populated by very complex individuals and to deepen that as much as possible. I don't think the responsibility of the reporter or journalist is fundamentally different. — Pankaj Mishra

I know love because I know the absence of it, you know what I mean? Like, I know black because I've seen white, something like that — C.M. Stunich

When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-body, a parasite that can live inside you for years, feed on your energy, lead to physical illness, and make your life miserable — Eckhart Tolle

I can't imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling. — Simon Rattle

To make a difference is not a matter of accident, a matter of casual occurrence of the tides. People choose to make a difference. — Maya Angelou

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that. — Oscar Robertson