Gatsby And Daisys Past Quotes & Sayings

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women? — Milan Kundera

The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won. — Maira Kalman

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets. — Noam Chomsky

How can you live in the Northeast? — Paul Simon

Somewhere along the way, when we were building social media products, we forgot the reason we like to communicate with our friends is because it's fun. — Evan Spiegel

We were never motorheads. We knew fast cars. We knew how to siphon gas - me - charge the battery when it was down. But never hot-wired a car. — Joe Biden

There is an optimum rate of discounting the future - mathematically, an optimum interest rate - which depends on how long you expect to live, how likely you will get back what you saved, how long you can stretch out the value of a resource, and how much you would enjoy it at different points in your life (for example, when you're vigorous or frail). "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die" is a completely rational allocation if we are sure we are going to die tomorrow. What is not rational is to eat and drink as if there's no tomorrow when there really is a tomorrow. To be overly self-indulgent, to lack self-control, is to devalue our future selves too much, or equivalently, to demand too high an interest rate before we deprive our current selves for the benefit of our future selves. No plausible interest rate would make the pleasure in smoking for a twenty-year-old self outweigh the pain of cancer for her fifty-year-old self. — Steven Pinker

I am more rich in goods than I am in money. — John Gutfreund

Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage. — Oscar Pistorius