Nick Carraways Appearance Quotes & Sayings

Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious. The greater the proportion of pure morality in a particular system, the happier and more enduring the society. Ultimately, a society governed by the pure principles of universal morality could last until the end of the world. — Michel Houellebecq

I wish to know what you are doing here," he whispered to the unknown woman, drumming his fingers on the road. "And what you might have to do with a stray puck and an enemy Queen. — Thea Harrison

Don't do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful. — Waris Dirie

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. — George Orwell

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each. — Henry George

Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past. — Asa Don Brown

This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea. — Cormac McCarthy

Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry. — Carl Sagan

In California, 50 women protested the impending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president. — Jay Leno