How Gatsby Became Successful Quotes & Sayings

For in the fatness of these pursy times
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. — William Shakespeare

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention ... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive] — Thurgood Marshall

Rose unearthed three crystal goblets that almost matched, and even found a tablecloth that hadn't been attacked by moths since its last public appearance. — Elizabeth C. Bunce

When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community. — Rhoda Janzen

Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties. — Leon Trotsky

The little you have is the best
you need to survive
. — Victor Adeagbo

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. — James Russell Lowell

In order to live a life truly worth living you had to have strength in the face of adversity, patience when confronted by challenge, and bravery in the face of fear. As Sandy Portman I had used arrogance in the face of fear, disdain in the face of challenge, and selfishness in the face of adversity. — Linda Francis Lee

The one thing that everybody wants is to be free...not to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free, the word discipline, and forbidden and investigated and imprisoned brings horror and fear into all hearts, they do not want to be afraid not more than is necessary in the ordinary business of living where one has to earn one's living and has to fear want and disease and death....The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

~ September, 1943 — Gertrude Stein

In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son. — Chuck Palahniuk

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar. — Keith Carradine

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done. — Peter Mayhew

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will. — Curt Schilling