The Great Gatsby Wasteland Quotes & Sayings

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river. — Alice Oswald

I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you. — Hina Hashmi

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress — Paul Karl Feyerabend

Saying "I'll try" really means "I'm not really committed." — Robin Sharma

Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope. - Iris, Rainbow Goddess — Rick Riordan

Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential. — Saul Bellow

Poetry is an act of peace. — Pablo Neruda

Just tell me one thing. What are you doing not in your country right now? Why did you run off to America, Darling Nonkululeko Nkala, huh? Why did you just leave? If it's your country, you have to love it to live in it and not leave it. You have to fight for it no matter what, to make it right. Tell me, do you abandon your house because it's burning or do you find water to put out the fire? And if you leave it burning, do you expect the flames to turn into water and put themselves out? You left it, Darling, my dear, you left the house burning and you have the guts to tell me in that stupid accent that you were not even born with, that doesn't even suit you, that this is your country? — NoViolet Bulawayo

you do not know how to give a good counsel, it is better — William Loehe

Pardoning mercy makes way for healing mercy. — T. B. Joshua

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne

A voracious gambler does not gamble until he wins, but until he loses everything, and a smart one knows when to quit. — M. T. Panchal

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others ... would also read the man. — Benjamin Disraeli

If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem. — Lewis Hamilton