Midwest In The Great Gatsby Quotes & Sayings

Science, they say, can tap the brain of man and alter his desires. But the Bible, which has withstood the ravages of time ... says that we are possessed of a sinful, fallen nature which wars against us. — Billy Graham

Our society in general has is more money equals more happiness and all the research has shown that that's true up to a point, up until you can get your basic needs met, but then really there is other stuff that has a much bigger impact on your happiness besides just money. — Tony Hsieh

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. — George Chapman

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people. — Billy Ray Cyrus

I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say "Love" and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog. — Djuna Barnes

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. — Elvis Presley

In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer. — Margaret Thatcher

Emotions rage inside me, something like a world war twisting inside my stomach and poking holes in my lungs. I can't pick apart reality from fantasy - does that mean insanity isn't far from my reach? — K. Weikel

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive. — Heather Blanton

A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath. — Peter Greenaway

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character ... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Some things defy language itself. — Sylvain Reynard

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts. — Passenger

A boy grows and marries and leaves. He belongs to another woman, but a girl always belongs to her mother. — Kate Atkinson