Quotes & Sayings About Isolation In The Great Gatsby

But lost in that sea of (valid) criticism is the perhaps subtler critique that in an age of consumerism, economic imperialism and what Martin Luther King Jr. called "jumboism," the sacrificial way of Jesus may be calling us to forsake the supersized life. — C. Christopher Smith

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr

Never quit on life, keep fighting your way through it. — Fred Phillips III

Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: "The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe." Sorel — Niccolo Machiavelli

You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must do it. — Tom Seaver

Ah's me! if we could be what what we wish to be, instead of being only what we are, there would be a great difference in our characters and knowledge and appearance. One may be rude and coarse and ignorant, and yet happy, if he does not know it; but it is hard to see our own failings in the strongest light, just as we wish to hear the least about them. — James Fenimore Cooper

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. — Julius Charles Hare

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live. — Annie Dillard

I've won because I could understand the way my enemy thought. From what they did. I could tell what they thought I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. — Orson Scott Card

The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down. — Theresa Sjoquist

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village. — T.F. Hodge

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence. — Leopold Von Ranke

She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament:
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay. — William Wordsworth

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way. — Oswald Chambers