Nick Carraway Honest Quotes & Sayings

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. — Andrew Fletcher

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. — Missy Elliott

In them days I just as soon died
except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not. — Sonny Terry

There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities. — Leonard Nimoy

He remembered suddenly, at this moment, as he looked at the squares of moonlight lying on the floor, the time when he had first realized that pain is a thing that we must face and come to terms with if life is to be lived with dignity an not merely muddled through like an evil dream ... In some vague way he had understood that dark things are necessary; without them the silver moonlight would just stream away into nothingness, but with them it can be held and arranged into beautiful squares. (David Eliot, Chapter 4) — Elizabeth Goudge

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian. — John B. S. Haldane

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives. — Max Lucado

I want someone to care enough to say more than just "It's up to you what you do with your life." I don't have any opinions and I don't trust myself. — Phoebe Gloeckner

The Listener's editor when I first joined was Russell Twisk, a surname of such surpassing beauty that I would have written pieces for him if he had been at the helm of Satanic Child-Slaughter Monthly. — Stephen Fry

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work. — Henry Ford