Michaelis Gatsby Quotes & Sayings

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. — Raymond Queneau

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer. — George Herbert

We should never wish our children or friends to do what we would not do ourselves if we were in their positions. We must accept righteous sacrifices as well as make them. — George MacDonald

Worship is about what we love. What we live for. It's about who we are before God. — Bob Kauflin

I walk on my sacred path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism. — Jonathan Mahler

One of those questions you don't want to know the answer to, but still have to ask. — Rick Yancey

With the industrial proliferation of visual and audiovisual prostheses and unrestrained use of instantaneous-transmission equipment from earliest childhood onwards, we now routinely see the encoding of increasingly elaborate mental images together with a steady decline in retention rates and recall. In other words we are looking at the rapid collapse of mnemonic consolidation. This collapse seems only natural, if one remembers a contrario that seeing, and its spatio-temporal organization, precede gesture and speech and their coordination in knowing, recognizing, making known (as images of our thoughts), our thoughts themselves and cognitive functions, which are never ever passive. — Paul Virilio

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything ... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days. — Abhishek Bachchan

In any other city in Italy, the fact that no one had seen or heard anything would be no more than an indication of their distrust of the police and a general unwillingness to help them. Here, however, where the people were generally law-abiding and most of the police themselves Venetians, it meant no more than that they had seen or heard nothing. If — Donna Leon

Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. "God sees everything," repeated Wilson. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
With eloquence that's bought. — Ovid

Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.' — Issan Dorsey