Quotes & Sayings About Characters In The Great Gatsby

103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because we are caught in our pictures of how we should be. — Charlotte Joko Beck

In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it. — Dan Ariely

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds. — Muhammad

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. — Paul Hawken

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on. — Alex Meraz

Five things I'd rather do than swatch for my new project
1. Get a spinal tap.
2. Scrub the bathtub after all three of my daughters have come home from "Sandbox day" at the park.
3. Babysit two-year-old triplets while simultaneously diffusing a bomb.
4. Bathe a cat.
5. KNIT MY NEW PROJECT. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

What if the only thing that's standing between us right now is our fear? — Jessica Verdi

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them. — Tom Cruise

There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s. — Retief Goosen

He's a buying dude, and I've got to sell him something - like my credibility. (On sale Today through Labor Day.) — Jarod Kintz

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it. — Kerry Greenwood

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye. — Sarah Louise Delany

The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed. — Philip Larkin

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit. — Bernard Berenson