Quotes & Sayings About Pride In The Great Gatsby

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches. — Benjamin Carson

Everybody should have a shelter dog. It's good for the soul. — Paul Shaffer

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body. — Hildegard Of Bingen

I was already well acquainted with the splendors of her mouth. Smoking is good for that. You get a full display of the puckering, and the sucking. The tongue often makes an appearance, licking from the lips any stickiness imparted by the filter. Sometimes bits of paper adhere to the bottom lip and the smoker, pulling them away, reveals the candied lower teeth against the pulpy gums. And if the smoker is a blower of smoke rings, you get to see all the way in to the dark velvet of the inner cheeks. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it. — John Henry Wigmore

Suppressing natural feelings, Methley said, in the end distorted both mind and body. And excluding them from the consideration of novelists distorted the novel, infantilised it, turned good fiction into bad lying. — A.S. Byatt

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave? — Paolo Bacigalupi