Great Gatsby Setting Quotes & Sayings

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored. — Andrew J. Bernstein

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way. — Frederick Lenz

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation. — Brandon Sanderson

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it. — Philippe Kahn

After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from. — Eric Schneiderman

You mean she doesn't intend to blow me up before the ceremony?" said Kai,taking the box."How disappointing. — Marissa Meyer

It is possible that God is the way Annie Payne used to lean her old head against my shoulder ... Drew's arms holding me ... Ron Dunham walking out of the woods hand in hand with a child lost, then found. It is possible that God is my neighbor with her pan of brownies standing on my doorstep. It is entirely possible, that is, that the God I serve and worship with all my body, all my mind, all my soul, and all my spirit is love ... It's enough. It's all the God I need. — Kate Braestrup

Pick this one, she vibrates! — Erica Larsen

Sometimes life seemed particularly unfair, unduly harsh, and beyond bearing. — Amy Harmon

He may be doing it for you in this Advent season - graciously and tenderly frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can't find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man. What a Christmas gift that might be! Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God. It will become sweet - like walking into paradise. — John Piper

Always be with the one who makes you smile — Faye Hall

I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true. — Bill Nighy