Chapter 3 Great Gatsby Quotes & Sayings

You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters! seemed — Scott Westerfeld

She had lost just too much control, time was rushing all around her, these were rapids, and as far ahead as she could see it looked like Brock's stretch of the river, another stage, like sex, children, surgery, further into adulthood perilous and real, into the secret that life is soldiering, that soldiering includes death, those those soldiered for, not yet and often never in on the secret, are always, at every age, children. — Thomas Pynchon

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness. — Thomm Quackenbush

Let those who are actually concerned with peace observe that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history - a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world - from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. — Ayn Rand

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned. — Neal Shusterman

But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. — Ed Catmull

Romance is a bubble which will burst. True love is a seed which will grow into a tree, something strong and beautiful to lean on. — Loretta Livingstone

The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those that don't seem to work out in the short term: they will provide valuable distinctions to make better evaluations and therefore decisions in the future. Realize that decision making, like any skill you focus on improving, gets better the more often you do it. — Anthony Hopkins

You weren't created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive. — Joel Osteen

Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares. — Debasish Mridha

The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world. — Debasish Mridha

The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones. — Siri Hustvedt