Gatsby Alienation Quotes & Sayings

Longing alone is singer to the lute. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I guess I haven't made it clear how I feel about Charlotte. Well, she puts my heart in a microwave and watches as it warms up and explodes. When I'm around her, my blood runs hot and thick. It's beautiful.
You could say there's nothing special about her. You could make the case.
But, really, she's special because nobody else can do the microwave thing. — Hannah Moskowitz

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results. — Robin S. Sharma

I learned quickly that there is nothing easier to grow accustomed to than luxury. — Christopher Hebert

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. — William Shakespeare

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made. — David Gill

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola. — Nicolas Cage

I can't spend my whole life just sitting on my hands and wondering when I'm going to fade. I can't. That's worse than doing something wrong. Isn't it? — Stephen R. Donaldson

You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem. — Angelo Dundee

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly. — Radhanath Swami

I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule. — Ian Paisley

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. — John F. Kennedy

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.' — Matthew McConaughey

In 1912, although he, more even than other members of the Senate and the House, thought himself presidential timber (a delusion from which vanishingly few senators and representatives are wholly free when they gaze enraptured into their mirrors of a morning), Senator [William Alden] Smith wasn't noted for much of anything. — Markham Shaw Pyle

Any man,' he says, 'who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world. — Seneca.