Quotes & Sayings About Gatsby Obsession With Daisy

Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears
would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back, Temeraire said. — Naomi Novik

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all. — Jeannette Walls

Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling. — Gautama Buddha

Sometimes, if a country's currency is overvalued in real terms, and it looks like the current account is going to be in deficit for the foreseeable future, devaluation can make sense. — Klaus Schwab

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics. — Massad Ayoob

Even if it's got a bigger problem, he's an engineer!" Dialing, he added, "Fixing things is his job! — Andy Weir

Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous - that it is the philosophy of the future.4 That's the sort of thing he cares about. The — C.S. Lewis

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy ... .The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities ... To make all politics cosmopolitan is to create an aristocracy of globe-trotters. If your political outlook really takes in the Cannibal Islands, you depend of necessity upon a superior and picked minority of the people who have been to the Cannibal Islands; or rather of the still smaller and more select minority who have come back. — G.K. Chesterton

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is. — Glenn Greenwald

All the proof of a pudding is in the eating. — William Camden

I was in a business for years where the stylist styled me, and I was wearing things from other designers. I was just there to be a conduit to those things. To be lucky enough to be embraced, having branched out from being a model, has been the greatest gift ever. — Erin Wasson

My consciousness is eternal; and I feel eternal bliss. — Amy Leigh Mercree

Our neighbors are not merely our associates and special friends; they are not simply those who belong to our church, or who think as we do. Our neighbors are the whole human family. We — Ellen G. White

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering — Friedrich Nietzsche