Quotes & Sayings About Mortality In The Great Gatsby

The best solution for little problems is to help people with big problems. — Kalman Packouz

If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the "Just fine, thank you, and how are you?" reply to the "How are you today?" The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels. — Paul Ekman

I sit back up and try to banish such thoughts from my mind. They're stickier than I expect. — DelSheree Gladden

She tried to explain to them it wasn't the place that made people uncultured but their attitudes. — Vivian Arend

I love L.A. I'd move there tomorrow if I could. — Rebecca Ferguson

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last? — Larry Wall

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it. — Jacob M. Appel

Maura is the kind of friend I enjoy slapping doomsday scenarios with. She's not, however, someone makes me want to prevent stay happening. — John Green

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too. — William Cowper

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot. — Billy Graham

[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears responsibility to some degree for maintaining these protocols of intolerance, which could not be kept in place if every single one of us did not play our part. From bringing up children 'appropriately', to lovingly correcting or punishing their inappropriate behaviour, to making sure we never breach the protocols ourselves, to staring or sniggering at people who look different, to coercive psychiatric and medical intervention, to emotional blackmail, to physical violence-it's a range of slippages all the way that we seldom recognize. — Nivedita Menon

Some peaceniks clear their throats by saying that, of course, they oppose Saddam Hussein as much as anybody, though not enough to support doing anything about him. — Christopher Hitchens

When they die no one will ever know that once they lived. — Sidney Sheldon