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Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Edward Dyer

Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind. — Edward Dyer

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Hillary Jordan

That wasn't enough. They weren't enough.
Nor, she soon realized, was Will, though by every rational measure he ought to have been ... He became ardent, spoke of love, hinted at marriage. She stilled his roving hands and deflected his near-proposals. Finally, when his frustration turned to anger, she cut him loose, bleeding and disoriented, her own heart perfectly intact.
Aidan wouldn't leave it intact, she'd known that from the first. Long before they became lovers, she could foresee that there would be an after, and that it would lay waste to them both. — Hillary Jordan

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Kanye West

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. — Kanye West

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Evangeline Booth

There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need. — Evangeline Booth

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Jennifer Beckstrand

For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible. — Jennifer Beckstrand

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Marie Helvin

I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt - I have about 50 - and tight black trousers. — Marie Helvin

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By David Grossman

More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she had never had nor would again. The thoughts and ideas he had birthed in her, his golden touch, and the words that erupted from her and became sparks of light to him. — David Grossman

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Lev Grossman

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for. — Lev Grossman

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Milkweed L. Augustine

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself? ... Or, to "be" himself? — Milkweed L. Augustine

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. — Soren Kierkegaard

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Charles Lamb

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. — Charles Lamb

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Richard Wright

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? — Richard Wright

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Gwen Stefani

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end. — Gwen Stefani

Nick Carraway Personality Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge