Great Gatsby Literary Quotes & Sayings

I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out. — Meraaqi

Even when I leaned in as far as I dared without being obvious, — Donna Tartt

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God. — Wallace D. Wattles

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. — Pope Francis

Your right standing with God and your connection to Him remains your strongest defense in the day of calamity. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview
you'll be interviewing the next guy. — Tony Romo

Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness. — Marianne Williamson

At the end of a lifetime's worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? — David Baldacci

I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes — William Shakespeare

Authors whose books were selected as ASEs were rewarded with a loyal readership of millions of men. Word spread quickly about the titles that were perennial favorites, even reaching the home front. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which was written in 1925, was considered a failure during Fitzgerald's lifetime. But when this book was printed as an ASE in October 1945, it won the hearts of an army of men. Their praise reverberated back home, and The Great Gatsby was rescued from obscurity and has since become an American literary classic. — Molly Guptill Manning

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. — Christian De Portzamparc

We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings, is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic common sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is that it's easy to get your hands on a gun. — Barack Obama

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters. — Richard Engel